Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976)
Directed by Felipe Cazals · Cinematography by Álex Phillips Jr.
115 min56 frames
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A town. Vested interests. 1968: a decisive year in the history of Mexico.
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What is Canoa: A Shameful Memory about?
A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on the run from an army crack-down against student demonstrations in nearby Mexico City and rallies the townsfolk to lynch them. Based on a true story.
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Across 56 sampled frames, Canoa: A Shameful Memory builds its coverage from medium shots (43% of the sample), with wide compositions (25%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Álex Phillips Jr. keeps 64% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Daylight carries most of the picture. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 55% of the frames.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976) are #34312a, #120f0c, #52544c, #d4ccae, #948873, #ac9676 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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