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Cathy Come Home (1969)

Directed by Ken Loach · Cinematography by Tony Imi

75 min47 frames

DramaTV Movie

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Cathy Come Home (1969) movie still: wide — A spacious transit platform features metal benches, vending machines, and posters on the walls. A woman…Cathy Come Home (1969) movie still: medium — An office interior features a wall with a sign instructing visitors to report arrival. A man in a suit…Cathy Come Home (1969) movie still: fullbody — A narrow cobblestone urban alleyway lined with terraced brick houses and vintage parked cars. A woman…Cathy Come Home (1969) movie still: medium — A man and woman sit together on a wooden park bench outdoors. A rustic picket fence and dense green…Cathy Come Home (1969) movie still: medium — An open park area with mid-century modern apartment buildings in the background. A young couple sits…Cathy Come Home (1969) movie still: fullbody — A group of children play with a discarded armchair in a grassy field. The boy sits in the chair while…Cathy Come Home (1969) movie still: medium — An office interior features wood-paneled walls and desk furniture in a 1960s style. A blonde woman in a…Cathy Come Home (1969) movie still: medium — An interior space features wood-paneled walls and a patterned textile hanging in the background. A man…Cathy Come Home (1969) movie still: establishing — A dense urban tenement courtyard features multiple levels of iron balconies and staircases.…Cathy Come Home (1969) movie still: fullbody — An urban exterior features a brick wall with windows and a doorway boarded up. Two adults and a child…Cathy Come Home (1969) movie still: closeup — A dimly lit interior space with soft textures indicating a sleeping area. A person lies down resting…Cathy Come Home (1969) movie still: closeup — A dimly lit indoor space with a patterned curtain in the background. A young woman holds a folded…Cathy Come Home (1969) movie still: closeup — A black chalkboard displays a white line drawing of a pregnant woman's silhouette. A human hand points…Cathy Come Home (1969) movie still: closeup — The interior of a vehicle features a person partially obscured by a printed page. The person peers…Cathy Come Home (1969) movie still: medium — A quiet indoor space features an elderly man seated while a woman faces him. A floral pattern handbag…Cathy Come Home (1969) movie still: medium — A child sleeps in a simple iron-framed bed with white pillows and blankets. A glass baby bottle rests…
Cathy Come Home (1969) — © BBC

What is Cathy Come Home about?

Cathy and Reg are a couple with three young children, who find their life spiralling into poverty when Reg loses his well-paid job. Gripping and emotional, Cathy Come Home remains a truly ground-breaking piece of dramatic fiction, engaging viewers with social issues, such as homelessness, unemployment and the rights of mothers to keep their own children.

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What does the cinematography of Cathy Come Home look like?

Across 47 sampled frames, Cathy Come Home builds its coverage from medium shots (49% of the sample), with close-ups (26%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Tony Imi keeps 74% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Daylight carries most of the picture. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 68% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1960s.

What is the color palette of Cathy Come Home?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Cathy Come Home (1969) are #c8c8c8, #030303, #464646, #878787, #fcfcfc, #303030 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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  • #030303
  • #464646
  • #878787
  • #fcfcfc
  • #303030

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