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Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024)

Directed by Carlos Saldanha · Cinematography by Gabriel Beristain

PG90 min105 frames

FamilyComedyAdventureFantasy

Everything he draws is about to get real.

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What is Harold and the Purple Crayon about?

Inside of his book, adventurous Harold can make anything come to life simply by drawing it. After he grows up and draws himself off the book's pages and into the physical world, Harold finds he has a lot to learn about real life.

Harold and the Purple Crayon is a 2024 American live-action animated fantasy comedy film directed by Carlos Saldanha in his live-action directorial debut, from a screenplay by David Guion and Michael Handelman, based on the 1955 children's book by Crockett Johnson. Combining live-action and animation, the film stars Zachary Levi, Lil Rel Howery, Benjamin Bottani, Jemaine Clement, Tanya Reynolds, Alfred Molina, and Zooey Deschanel. In the film, after he draws himself off the book's pages and into the physical world, Harold finds that he has a lot to learn about real life.

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What does the cinematography of Harold and the Purple Crayon look like?

Sampled across 105 frames, the coverage of Harold and the Purple Crayon leans on medium shots (47% of the sample) and wide compositions (25%). Cinematographer Gabriel Beristain keeps 58% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Night and dusk account for 46% of the frames. Focus stays shallow in 65% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

What is the color palette of Harold and the Purple Crayon?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024) are #31302d, #4e4d4d, #121013, #f8f7f7, #d5d3ce, #8d7d6a — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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