{"title":"Best Christmas Movies","theme":"christmas","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/christmas","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":88,"listedFilms":53,"frames":6554,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"christmas tree","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":33.98,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00869,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00026,"observedInFrames":330},{"element":"string lights","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":8.98,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00611,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00068,"observedInFrames":232},{"element":"snow","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":3.86,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00763,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00198,"observedInFrames":290},{"element":"scarf","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.57,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00334,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0013,"observedInFrames":127},{"element":"coat","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.16,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00374,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00173,"observedInFrames":142},{"element":"girl","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.12,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00505,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00238,"observedInFrames":192},{"element":"sweater","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.69,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00324,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00192,"observedInFrames":123}],"cinematography":{"note":"Weakly differentiating: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy. Use `signature` to tell genres apart.","values":[{"axis":"v4_lighting_key","value":"high_key","shareOfThemeFrames":0.186,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.1224,"ratio":1.52},{"axis":"v4_lighting_key","value":"natural","shareOfThemeFrames":0.3457,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.436,"ratio":0.79},{"axis":"time_of_day","value":"night","shareOfThemeFrames":0.5272,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.4219,"ratio":1.25},{"axis":"camera_angle","value":"eye_level","shareOfThemeFrames":0.8621,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.6903,"ratio":1.25}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.444,"ratio":0.98},{"hue":"red","share":0.191,"ratio":1.26},{"hue":"blue","share":0.15,"ratio":0.86},{"hue":"yellow","share":0.066,"ratio":0.87}],"meanSaturation":0.265,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.433,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"How The Grinch Stole Christmas","year":2000,"director":"Ron Howard","cinematographer":"Donald Peterman","exemplarScore":1.417,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/how-the-grinch-stole-christmas-2000"},{"rank":2,"title":"Black Christmas","year":2006,"director":"Glen Morgan","cinematographer":"Robert McLachlan","exemplarScore":1.213,"framesIndexed":109,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/black-christmas-2006"},{"rank":3,"title":"Terrifier 3","year":2024,"director":"Damien Leone","cinematographer":"George Steuber","exemplarScore":1.161,"framesIndexed":187,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/terrifier-3-2024"},{"rank":4,"title":"It’s A Wonderful Life","year":1946,"director":"Frank Capra","cinematographer":"Joseph F. Biroc","exemplarScore":1.07,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/its-a-wonderful-life-1946"},{"rank":5,"title":"Eyes Wide Shut","year":1999,"director":"Stanley Kubrick","cinematographer":"Larry Smith","exemplarScore":0.899,"framesIndexed":60,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/eyes-wide-shut-1999"},{"rank":6,"title":"Gremlins","year":1984,"director":"Joe Dante","cinematographer":"John Hora","exemplarScore":0.863,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/gremlins-1984"},{"rank":7,"title":"The Conjuring 2","year":2016,"director":"James Wan","cinematographer":"Don Burgess","exemplarScore":0.844,"framesIndexed":58,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-conjuring-2-2016"},{"rank":8,"title":"Tokyo Godfathers","year":2003,"director":"Satoshi Kon","cinematographer":"Katsutoshi Sugai","exemplarScore":0.874,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/tokyo-godfathers-2003"},{"rank":9,"title":"Scrooged","year":1988,"director":"Richard Donner","cinematographer":"Michael Chapman","exemplarScore":0.821,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/scrooged-1988"},{"rank":10,"title":"The Mothman Prophecies","year":2002,"director":"Mark Pellington","cinematographer":"Fred Murphy","exemplarScore":0.81,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-mothman-prophecies-2002"}],"outlier":{"title":"The Green Knight","year":2021,"exemplarScore":0.045,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}