42nd Street (1933)
Directed by Lloyd Bacon · Cinematography by Sol Polito
Approved89 min65 frames
ComedyDramaRomance
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What is 42nd Street about?
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.
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What does the cinematography of 42nd Street look like?
Sampled across 65 frames, the coverage of 42nd Street leans on medium shots (32% of the sample) and wide compositions (26%). Cinematographer Sol Polito keeps 46% of it in soft, high-key light. Night and dusk account for 42% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 55% of the frames. The production design places the film in the 1930s.
What is the color palette of 42nd Street?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of 42nd Street (1933) are #030303, #898989, #cccccc, #fcfcfc, #323232, #484848 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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