A Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)
Directed by Karel Zeman · Cinematography by Antonín Horák, Václav Pazderník
83 min63 frames
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Four boys living the excitement every boy dreams about!
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What is A Journey to the Beginning of Time about?
Four schoolboys go on an awe-inspiring expedition back through time, where they behold landscapes and creatures that have long since vanished from the earth.
Journey to the Beginning of Time is a 1955 Czechoslovak science fiction adventure directed by Karel Zeman, produced in colour using a combination of 2-D and 3-D models. It was the first of Zeman's productions to include actors in conjunction with stop-motion and special effects. It won awards at the International Film Festivals of Venice and Mannheim. In 1966, Cesta do pravěku was dubbed into English, creating a modified US version, Journey to the Beginning of Time.
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What does the cinematography of A Journey to the Beginning of Time look like?
Sampled across 63 frames, the coverage of A Journey to the Beginning of Time leans on wide compositions (59% of the sample) and medium shots (27%). Cinematographer Antonín Horák keeps 81% of it in soft, naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — 70% of the frames play in daylight. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 73% of the frames.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of A Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955) are #32322b, #525349, #aaa693, #8c8976, #76776b, #706a5a — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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