{"title":"Best 1930s Movies","theme":"1930s","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/1930s","source":"FrameThrower","license":{"name":"CC BY 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","scope":"Covers these measurements only — the ratios, counts and rankings computed by FrameThrower. The film frames they are derived from are not licensed and no rights to them are granted.","attribution":"FrameThrower — https://framethrower.ai"},"method":"Per-frame tags (shot size, lighting key, time of day, camera angle, colour, visible objects) aggregated across the films carrying this theme, expressed as a ratio against the same measurement over the whole catalogue. Films ranked by how closely they match the theme's over-indexed elements, weighted by how distinctive each element is; one film per series.","sample":{"films":53,"listedFilms":35,"frames":4094,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"vintage car","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":8.73,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00596,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00068,"observedInFrames":142},{"element":"fedora","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":7.21,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.01587,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0022,"observedInFrames":378},{"element":"hat","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":3.23,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.0055,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00171,"observedInFrames":131},{"element":"suit","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.3,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00399,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00174,"observedInFrames":95},{"element":"tie","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.26,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00844,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00374,"observedInFrames":201},{"element":"vest","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.18,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00344,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00158,"observedInFrames":82},{"element":"necktie","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.92,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00529,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00275,"observedInFrames":126},{"element":"wooden chair","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.86,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00319,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00172,"observedInFrames":76}],"cinematography":{"note":"Weakly differentiating: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy. Use `signature` to tell genres apart.","values":[{"axis":"shot_size","value":"wide","shareOfThemeFrames":0.2523,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.1952,"ratio":1.29},{"axis":"camera_angle","value":"eye_level","shareOfThemeFrames":0.8375,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.6903,"ratio":1.21},{"axis":"v4_lighting_key","value":"low_key","shareOfThemeFrames":0.4763,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.3929,"ratio":1.21}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.602,"ratio":1.33},{"hue":"red","share":0.121,"ratio":0.8},{"hue":"blue","share":0.117,"ratio":0.67},{"hue":"yellow","share":0.076,"ratio":0.99}],"meanSaturation":0.22,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.408,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"The Untouchables","year":1987,"director":"Brian De Palma","cinematographer":"Stephen H. 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Russell","cinematographer":"Emmanuel Lubezki","exemplarScore":1.296,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/amsterdam-2022"},{"rank":5,"title":"Lawless","year":2012,"director":"John Hillcoat","cinematographer":"Benoît Delhomme","exemplarScore":1.269,"framesIndexed":62,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/lawless-2012"},{"rank":6,"title":"Seabiscuit","year":2003,"director":"Gary Ross","cinematographer":"John Schwartzman","exemplarScore":1.291,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/seabiscuit-2003"},{"rank":7,"title":"Live By Night","year":2016,"director":"Ben Affleck","cinematographer":"Robert Richardson","exemplarScore":1.253,"framesIndexed":48,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/live-by-night-2016"},{"rank":8,"title":"The Rocketeer","year":1991,"director":"Joe Johnston","cinematographer":"Hiro Narita","exemplarScore":1.245,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-rocketeer-1991"},{"rank":9,"title":"The King’s Speech","year":2010,"director":"Tom Hooper","cinematographer":"Danny Cohen","exemplarScore":1.202,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-kings-speech-2010"},{"rank":10,"title":"Sinners","year":2025,"director":"Ryan Coogler","cinematographer":"Autumn Durald Arkapaw","exemplarScore":1.208,"framesIndexed":140,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/sinners-2025"}],"outlier":{"title":"In The Realm of the Senses","year":1976,"exemplarScore":0.062,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}