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Bound For Glory (1976)

Directed by Hal Ashby · Cinematography by Haskell Wexler

PG147 min62 frames

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"This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land, From California to the New York Island. This land was made for you and me."

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Bound For Glory (1976) movie still: establishing — A narrow, dark corridor exists between two parallel lines of large metal freight train cars. The…Bound For Glory (1976) movie still: fullbody — A man stands inside a dark metal boxcar looking out toward a sunset horizon. He holds a rectangular…Bound For Glory (1976) movie still: closeup — A man in a flat cap stands against an open, hazy landscape during sunset. He holds and plays an…Bound For Glory (1976) movie still: medium — The interior of an older automobile featuring a dashboard, a large steering wheel, and four passengers.…Bound For Glory (1976) movie still: medium — A man sits on the dirt by a weathered vertical wooden plank fence. The area appears to be alongside a…Bound For Glory (1976) movie still: medium — A dimly lit room with wooden furniture and a stack of folded blankets. A man stands wearing a fedora…Bound For Glory (1976) movie still: medium — Three people sit in the front and back of a vintage car in a rural setting. They are traveling along a…Bound For Glory (1976) movie still: medium — A recording studio control room contains a large vintage mixing console and acoustic glass. A man with…Bound For Glory (1976) movie still: medium — A dark, empty highway stretches through a dim night desert landscape. A man in a dark coat and hat…Bound For Glory (1976) movie still: wide — A dry, desolate landscape features railroad tracks passing a weathered wooden water tower. A dark steam…Bound For Glory (1976) movie still: closeup — A man stands in an indoor hallway near a pale, textured wall. He holds a pencil near his mouth and…Bound For Glory (1976) movie still: medium — A dimly lit room features a tiled tub area seen through a doorway. A man sits submerged in the water…Bound For Glory (1976) movie still: medium — A dimly lit, smoke-filled space with round tables and chairs visible in darkness. A bearded man sits at…Bound For Glory (1976) movie still: establishing — A dense shantytown composed of wooden huts sits under a heavy, overcast brown sky. Dirt paths and…Bound For Glory (1976) movie still: wide — A group of men in striped prison uniforms sit in folding chairs outdoors. Metal scaffolding towers stand…Bound For Glory (1976) movie still: medium — A person stands in a doorway looking out into a bright, blurred exterior space. The subject is backlit…
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What is Bound For Glory about?

A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering the suffering and strength of America's working class.

Bound for Glory is a 1976 American biographical film directed by Hal Ashby, produced by folk music impresario and Woody Guthrie's manager Harold Leventhal and loosely adapted by Robert Getchell from Guthrie's 1943 partly fictionalized autobiography Bound for Glory. The film stars David Carradine as folk singer Woody Guthrie, with Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, John Lehne, Ji-Tu Cumbuka and Randy Quaid. Much of the film is based on Guthrie's attempt to humanize the desperate Okie Dust Bowl refugees in California during the Great Depression.

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What does the cinematography of Bound For Glory look like?

Across 62 sampled frames, Bound For Glory builds its coverage from medium shots (55% of the sample), with wide compositions (24%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Haskell Wexler keeps 52% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Daylight carries most of the picture. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 65% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

What is the color palette of Bound For Glory?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Bound For Glory (1976) are #35302a, #574737, #47372c, #8a7a69, #8f7053, #2e241c — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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  • #47372c
  • #8a7a69
  • #8f7053
  • #2e241c

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