The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Directed by John Ford · Cinematography by Gregg Toland
Approved129 min65 frames
Drama
The Joads step right out of the pages of the novel that has shocked millions!
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What is The Grapes of Wrath about?
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
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What does the cinematography of The Grapes of Wrath look like?
Across 65 sampled frames, The Grapes of Wrath builds its coverage from wide compositions (34% of the sample), with medium shots (34%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Gregg Toland keeps 42% of it in hard-edged, naturalistic light. 54% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 55% of the frames. The production design places the film in the 1940s.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Grapes of Wrath (1940) are #040404, #2f2f2f, #8f8f8f, #6c6c6b, #4d4c4c, #cbcbcb — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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