Invention For Destruction (1958)
Directed by Karel Zeman · Cinematography by Jiří Tarantík
83 min65 frames
AdventureScience Fiction
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What is Invention For Destruction about?
As the world progresses into the industrial age, a professor studying the "nature of pure matter" is spirited away by a would-be dictator and connived into building a super-bomb, as a young reporter and a girl rescued from the sea attempt to warn him of their mutual kidnapper's intentions to dominate the world with a new and more-deadly-yet weapon.
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Sampled across 65 frames, the coverage of Invention For Destruction leans heavily on wide compositions (52% of the sample). Cinematographer Jiří Tarantík keeps 65% of it in naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — 66% of the frames play in daylight. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 91% of the frames.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Invention For Destruction (1958) are #050505, #878787, #fafafa, #cacaca, #494949, #aeaeae — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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