The Blue Lamp (1950)
Directed by Basil Dearden · Cinematography by Gordon Dines
Approved84 min63 frames
CrimeThrillerAction
Sheds just enough light for MURDER
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What is The Blue Lamp about?
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
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What does the cinematography of The Blue Lamp look like?
Sampled across 63 frames, the coverage of The Blue Lamp leans on medium shots (62% of the sample) and wide compositions (25%). Cinematographer Gordon Dines keeps 40% of it in hard-edged, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 44% of the frames. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 56% of the frames. The production design places the film in the 1940s.
What is the color palette of The Blue Lamp?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Blue Lamp (1950) are #030303, #cdcdcd, #8a8a8a, #2d2d2d, #4a4a4a, #fafafa — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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