Safety Last! (1923)
Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor · Cinematography by Walter Lundin
74 min52 frames
ComedyRomance
You're Going to Explode With "Safety Laughs" when You see This Fun Bomb.
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Safety Last! — official trailer
What is Safety Last! about?
When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
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What does the cinematography of Safety Last! look like?
Sampled across 52 frames, the coverage of Safety Last! leans on medium shots (40% of the sample) and wide compositions (23%). Cinematographer Walter Lundin keeps 81% of it in soft, naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — 87% of the frames play in daylight. Vintage glass shapes the frame, over a texture recalling 16mm. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 65% of the frames. The production design places the film in the 1920s.
What is the color palette of Safety Last!?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Safety Last! (1923) are #040404, #cdcdcd, #8b8a8a, #4b4b4a, #f9f9f9, #2f2f2f — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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