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Will Oldham

Will Oldham

3 films · 168 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19872008

Born 15 January 1970 · Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Will Oldham, better known by the stage name Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, is an American singer-songwriter and actor. From 1993 to 1997, he performed and recorded under variations of the Palace name, including the Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, and Palace Music. After releasing material under his own name, he adopted the "Bonnie 'Prince' Billy" moniker for the majority of his output since 1998.

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

How their films are shot

Measured across 168 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Will takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 3 films we hold, 62% of their frames are day, 63% natural — the look of the work Will takes.

Time of day

Day62%
Night33%

Lighting

Natural63%
Low key33%

Shot size

Medium46%
Wide21%
Closeup21%
Fullbody8%

Camera angle

Eye level92%
Low angle5%

Mood

Neutral76%
Tense11%
Lonely10%

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 168 frames from Will Oldham's 3 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.