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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Directed by Stanley Kubrick · Cinematography by Gilbert Taylor

PG95 min56 frames

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What is Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb about?

After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a 1964 political satire black comedy film co-written, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is loosely based on the thriller novel Red Alert (1958) by Peter George, who wrote the screenplay with Kubrick and Terry Southern. Financed and released by Columbia Pictures, the film was a co-production between the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Across 55 sampled frames, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb builds its coverage from medium shots (38% of the sample), with wide compositions (31%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Gilbert Taylor keeps 47% of it in low-key light. 56% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 67% of the frames. The production design places the film in the 1960s.

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