{"title":"Best New York City Movies","theme":"new york city","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/new-york-city","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":218,"listedFilms":162,"frames":17030,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"fedora","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.78,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00391,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0022,"observedInFrames":384},{"element":"neon sign","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.69,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00344,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00203,"observedInFrames":338},{"element":"streetlamp","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.67,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00337,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00202,"observedInFrames":331},{"element":"tie","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.61,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00601,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00374,"observedInFrames":591},{"element":"brick wall","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.6,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00594,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00371,"observedInFrames":584},{"element":"suit jacket","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.6,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00966,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00604,"observedInFrames":949},{"element":"sofa","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.56,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00322,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00206,"observedInFrames":316},{"element":"necktie","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.55,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00426,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00275,"observedInFrames":419}],"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":0.8604,"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":0.473,"ratio":1.04},{"hue":"blue","share":0.173,"ratio":0.99},{"hue":"red","share":0.159,"ratio":1.05},{"hue":"yellow","share":0.066,"ratio":0.87}],"meanSaturation":0.228,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.425,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"Sweet Smell of Success","year":1957,"director":"Alexander Mackendrick","cinematographer":"James Wong Howe","exemplarScore":1.727,"framesIndexed":62,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/sweet-smell-of-success-1957"},{"rank":2,"title":"Carlito’s Way","year":1993,"director":"Brian De Palma","cinematographer":"Stephen H. 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