{"title":"Best 1950s Movies","theme":"1950s","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/1950s","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":69,"listedFilms":50,"frames":4869,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"vintage car","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":6.96,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00475,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00068,"observedInFrames":134},{"element":"fedora","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":3.48,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00766,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0022,"observedInFrames":216},{"element":"boy","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.91,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00812,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00279,"observedInFrames":229},{"element":"wallpaper","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.58,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.0034,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00132,"observedInFrames":96},{"element":"cigarette","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.46,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00379,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00154,"observedInFrames":107},{"element":"necktie","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.37,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00652,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00275,"observedInFrames":184},{"element":"microphone","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.16,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00426,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00197,"observedInFrames":120},{"element":"wood paneling","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00358,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00179,"observedInFrames":101}],"cinematography":{"note":"Weakly differentiating: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy. Use `signature` to tell genres apart.","values":[{"axis":"camera_angle","value":"eye_level","shareOfThemeFrames":0.8575,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.6903,"ratio":1.24}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.53,"ratio":1.17},{"hue":"red","share":0.153,"ratio":1.01},{"hue":"blue","share":0.118,"ratio":0.68},{"hue":"yellow","share":0.087,"ratio":1.14}],"meanSaturation":0.214,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.432,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"No Sudden Move","year":2021,"director":"Steven Soderbergh","cinematographer":"Steven Soderbergh","exemplarScore":1.566,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/no-sudden-move-2021"},{"rank":2,"title":"The Godfather","year":1972,"director":"Francis Ford Coppola","cinematographer":"Gordon Willis","exemplarScore":1.363,"framesIndexed":61,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-godfather-1972"},{"rank":3,"title":"This Boy's Life","year":1993,"director":"Michael Caton-Jones","cinematographer":"David Watkin","exemplarScore":1.346,"framesIndexed":182,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/this-boy-s-life-1993"},{"rank":4,"title":"Motherless Brooklyn","year":2019,"director":"Edward Norton","cinematographer":"Dick Pope","exemplarScore":1.254,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/motherless-brooklyn-2019"},{"rank":5,"title":"The Killer Inside Me","year":2010,"director":"Michael Winterbottom","cinematographer":"Marcel Zyskind","exemplarScore":1.185,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-killer-inside-me-2010"},{"rank":6,"title":"L.A. Confidential","year":1997,"director":"Curtis Hanson","cinematographer":"Dante Spinotti","exemplarScore":1.118,"framesIndexed":66,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/l-a-confidential-1997"},{"rank":7,"title":"Nowhere Boy","year":null,"director":"Sam Taylor-Johnson","cinematographer":"Seamus McGarvey","exemplarScore":1.103,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/nowhere-boy"},{"rank":8,"title":"The Brutalist","year":2024,"director":"Brady Corbet","cinematographer":"Lol Crawley","exemplarScore":1.079,"framesIndexed":148,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-brutalist-2024"},{"rank":9,"title":"Far From Heaven","year":2002,"director":"Todd Haynes","cinematographer":"Edward Lachman","exemplarScore":1.072,"framesIndexed":62,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/far-from-heaven-2002"},{"rank":10,"title":"Carol","year":2015,"director":"Todd Haynes","cinematographer":"Edward Lachman","exemplarScore":1.019,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/carol-2015"}],"outlier":{"title":"Friday the 13th","year":1980,"exemplarScore":0.176,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}