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Stephen Lack

Stephen Lack

2 films · 129 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19811988

Born 1 January 1946 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Stephen Lack is a Canadian painter and a film actor best known for his role as Cameron Vale in David Cronenberg's film Scanners.

How their films are shot

Measured across 129 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Stephen 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, 49% of their frames are night, 43% low key — the look of the work Stephen takes.

Time of day

Night49%
Day28%
Interior22%

Lighting

Low key43%
Natural43%
High key15%

Shot size

Medium41%
Closeup33%
Wide19%
Fullbody5%

Camera angle

Eye level82%
High angle9%
Low angle8%

Mood

Neutral66%
Tense20%
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 129 frames from Stephen Lack'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.