Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)

Directed by Vincente Minnelli · Cinematography by George J. Folsey

Approved113 min65 frames

ComedyDramaRomanceFamily

Glorious love story with music!

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What is Meet Me In St. Louis about?

A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1944 American musical film in Technicolor made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Divided into a series of seasonal vignettes, starting with Summer 1903, it relates the story of a year in the life of the Smith family in St. Louis leading up to the opening of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in the spring of 1904. The film stars Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Leon Ames, Marjorie Main, Harry Davenport, June Lockhart, and Joan Carroll.

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What does the cinematography of Meet Me In St. Louis look like?

Across 65 sampled frames, medium shots dominate the coverage of Meet Me In St. Louis (75% of the sample). Cinematographer George J. Folsey keeps 46% of it in soft, high-key light. 58% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. 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 1940s.

What is the color palette of Meet Me In St. Louis?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) are #31292c, #4b3332, #d2b6a9, #f3f1ef, #171213, #e7d7c7 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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