Rear Window (1954)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · Cinematography by Robert Burks

PG112 min65 frames

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It only takes one witness to spoil the perfect crime.

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What is Rear Window about?

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

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What does the cinematography of Rear Window look like?

Sampled across 64 frames, the coverage of Rear Window leans on medium shots (52% of the sample) and wide compositions (23%). Cinematographer Robert Burks keeps 73% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 81% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 64% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1950s.

What is the color palette of Rear Window?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Rear Window (1954) are #362e2a, #58504a, #171312, #251914, #d3cfc7, #4f352c — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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