Making a movie into a picture

Hello everyone,
I am working on a school project that has me analyzing a film and describing how the film's color grading effects the overall tone and emotion of the film. I saw a post by outside-hollywood where it showed an image of a film, Black Hawk Down, which had been pulled apart frame by frame and then made into a single image. This showed in one swoop, one bird's eye view of the entire color scheme and rhythm that was used throughout the film. The frames were laid side by side all out at once like a huge mosaic with no final picture to try and recreate. I would like to do something similar with the film I am analyzing for class and include this bird's eye view with my final analysis. Toying around with Photoshop however, leaves me to believe this might be beyond the powers of the almighty image processing software. I see no option to automatically just throw images up in a image sequence order into a single image. Maybe I am over thinking this? Perhaps Photoshop isn't the software to use? Anyway any feedback is great.

Good day!
You may want to ask for help with automating the task over at
http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop/photoshop_scripting
but in my opinion you would do well to use another application to export numbered tiffs (or other files) from the video if it is of any considerable length and process those with Photoshop.
Regards,
Pfaffenbichler

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