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Philip MacDonald

Philip MacDonald

2 films · 101 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19851990

How their films are shot

Measured across 101 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Philip takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 2 films we hold, 45% of their frames are day — the look of the work Philip takes.

Time of day

Day45%
Night37%
Golden hour9%
Dusk5%

Lighting

Natural33%
Low key31%
Silhouette17%
High key12%

Shot size

Closeup30%
Medium29%
Wide19%
Establishing12%

Camera angle

Eye level90%
Low angle7%

Mood

Neutral66%
Tense11%
Ominous9%
Lonely8%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 101 frames from Philip MacDonald's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.