The Day After
Directed by Nicholas Meyer · Cinematography by Gayne Rescher
TV-PG127 min26 frames
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What is The Day After about?
In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her upcoming wedding, and Stephen Klein is deep in his graduate studies. When the unthinkable happens and the bombs come down, the town's residents are thrust into the horrors of nuclear winter.
The Day After is a 1983 American television film directed by Nicholas Meyer. The film postulates a fictional conflict between NATO and the Warsaw Pact over Germany that rapidly escalates into a full-scale nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. The action itself focuses on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, and several family farms near American missile silos. The cast includes Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum, and John Lithgow. The film was written by Edward Hume and produced by Robert Papazian, with clips from the 1979 Air Force documentary First Strike used.
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Sampled across 26 frames, the coverage of The Day After leans on medium shots and wide compositions. Cinematographer Gayne Rescher keeps much of it in soft, naturalistic light. Night and dusk account for most of the frames.
What is the color palette of The Day After?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Day After are #020202, #fdfdfd, #8a8a8a, #c9c9c9, #303030, #6d6d6d — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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