The Day of the Locust (1975)
Directed by John Schlesinger · Cinematography by Conrad Hall
R144 min62 frames
Drama
By train, by car, by bus, they came to Hollywood... in search of a dream.
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The Day of the Locust — official trailer
What is The Day of the Locust about?
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.
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What does the cinematography of The Day of the Locust look like?
Across 62 sampled frames, The Day of the Locust builds its coverage from medium shots (35% of the sample), with wide compositions (29%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Conrad Hall keeps 44% of it in soft, low-key light. 48% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 60% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
What is the color palette of The Day of the Locust?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Day of the Locust (1975) are #352b29, #281512, #4c3831, #d1af94, #d7c5af, #574e48 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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