On The Town (1949)
Directed by Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen · Cinematography by Harold Rosson
Approved98 min44 frames
MusicComedyRomance
They Paint The Town With Joy!
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What is On The Town about?
Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
On the Town is a 1949 American Technicolor musical film with music by Leonard Bernstein and Roger Edens and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. It is an adaptation of the Broadway stage musical of the same name produced in 1944, although many changes in the script and score were made to the original stage version; for instance, most of Bernstein's score was dropped in favor of new songs by Edens, who felt that the majority of Bernstein's music was too complex and too operatic for film audiences. This caused Bernstein to boycott the film.
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What does the cinematography of On The Town look like?
Across 44 sampled frames, On The Town builds its coverage from medium shots (39% of the sample), with full-body frames (34%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Harold Rosson keeps 52% of it in soft, high-key light. 43% 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 75% of the frames. The production design places the film in the 1940s.
What is the color palette of On The Town?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of On The Town (1949) are #312e30, #faf9f7, #0c0c0e, #d6d4cf, #4e5052, #8c766e — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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