{"title":"Best Black and White Movies","theme":"black and white","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/black-and-white","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":214,"listedFilms":135,"frames":13662,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"fedora","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":3.7,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00814,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0022,"observedInFrames":641},{"element":"hat","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":3.07,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00523,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00171,"observedInFrames":412},{"element":"coat","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.7,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00467,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00173,"observedInFrames":368},{"element":"necktie","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.39,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00657,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00275,"observedInFrames":518},{"element":"trench coat","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.25,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00368,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00164,"observedInFrames":290},{"element":"suit jacket","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.23,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.01344,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00604,"observedInFrames":1059},{"element":"suit","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.03,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00353,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00174,"observedInFrames":278},{"element":"shadow","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.84,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00767,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00417,"observedInFrames":604}],"cinematography":{"note":"Weakly differentiating: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy. Use `signature` to tell genres apart.","values":[{"axis":"v4_lighting_key","value":"chiaroscuro","shareOfThemeFrames":0.1432,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0207,"ratio":6.92},{"axis":"v4_lighting_key","value":"natural","shareOfThemeFrames":0.3253,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.436,"ratio":0.75},{"axis":"camera_angle","value":"eye_level","shareOfThemeFrames":0.8318,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.6903,"ratio":1.21}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.378,"ratio":0.83},{"hue":"red","share":0.201,"ratio":1.33},{"hue":"blue","share":0.182,"ratio":1.05},{"hue":"cyan","share":0.101,"ratio":1.8}],"meanSaturation":0.017,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.445,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"The 39 Steps","year":1935,"director":"Alfred Hitchcock","cinematographer":"Bernard Knowles","exemplarScore":1.932,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-39-steps-1935"},{"rank":2,"title":"The Stranger","year":1946,"director":"Orson Welles","cinematographer":"Russell Metty","exemplarScore":1.771,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-stranger-1946"},{"rank":3,"title":"Ikiru","year":1952,"director":"Akira Kurosawa","cinematographer":"Asakazu Nakai","exemplarScore":1.745,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/ikiru-1952"},{"rank":4,"title":"The Maltese Falcon","year":1941,"director":"John Huston","cinematographer":"Arthur Edeson","exemplarScore":1.723,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-maltese-falcon-1941"},{"rank":5,"title":"The Thin Man","year":1934,"director":"W.S. Van Dyke","cinematographer":"James Wong Howe","exemplarScore":1.682,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-thin-man-1934"},{"rank":6,"title":"Touch of Evil","year":1958,"director":"Orson Welles","cinematographer":"Russell Metty","exemplarScore":1.646,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/touch-of-evil-1958"},{"rank":7,"title":"It Happened One Night","year":1934,"director":"Frank Capra","cinematographer":"Joseph Walker","exemplarScore":1.64,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/it-happened-one-night-1934"},{"rank":8,"title":"Double Indemnity","year":1944,"director":"Billy Wilder","cinematographer":"John F. 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