Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Directed by Sergei Eisenstein · Cinematography by Eduard Tisse
66 min61 frames
DramaHistoryWar
Revolution is the only lawful, equal, effectual war. It was in Russia that this war was declared and begun.
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A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre.
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Across 61 sampled frames, Battleship Potemkin builds its coverage from wide compositions (52% of the sample), with medium shots (20%) carrying much of the rest. Low angles recur throughout. Cinematographer Eduard Tisse keeps 70% of it in hard-edged, naturalistic light. Daylight carries most of the picture. Vintage glass shapes the frame, over a texture recalling 16mm. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 72% of the frames. The production design places the film in the 1920s.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Battleship Potemkin (1925) are #4b4b4b, #020202, #8a8989, #afafaf, #fafafa, #303030 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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