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Sylva Koscina

Sylva Koscina

2 films · 119 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19661973

Born 22 August 1933 · Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia (now Zagreb, Croatia) · died 26 December 1994

Sylva Koscina was a Yugoslav-born Italian actress, maybe best remembered for her role as Iole, the bride of Hercules (Steve Reeves) in Hercules (1958) and Hercules Unchained (1960). She also played Paul Newman's romantic interest in The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968).

Description above from the Wikipedia article Sylva Koscina, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

How their films are shot

Measured across 119 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Sylva 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, 60% of their frames are night, 55% low key — the look of the work Sylva takes.

Time of day

Night60%
Day33%
Interior6%

Lighting

Low key55%
Natural27%
Chiaroscuro9%
High key5%

Shot size

Medium43%
Closeup24%
Wide24%
Fullbody8%

Camera angle

Eye level80%
Low angle10%
High angle5%

Mood

Neutral54%
Tense23%
Ominous13%
Lonely6%

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 119 frames from Sylva Koscina'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.