Thanks hippo.
Based on your code sample and what I already have, I have built a test which shows it is not the way I am using Template that is the issue - it is my display() function. In the 'real' code this is abstracted into a Site::HTML module because I want to hide the site variables away in a separate module with only Site::HTML and Site::Common having access to it - perhaps I need to rethink that design.

use Template;
use strict;

my $template = Template->new;

my $vars = {
    'frames' => \&get_frames
};

$template->process('test.tt', $vars);   # this works
display('test', $vars);                 # this doesn't

sub get_frames {
    my @list;
    foreach my $l( qw/first second/ ) {
        my $fr = {
            'one' => $l,
            'two' => $l,
        };
        push @list, $fr;
    }
    return @list;
}

sub display {
#    my $self = shift;
    my $file = shift;
    my %vars = @_;
    $template->process("$file.tt", \%vars);
}

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update

The test Template...

Start test...

[% FOREACH frame IN frames() %]
    Frame - [% frame.one %] [% frame.two %]
[% END %]

End test...

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In reply to Re^6: Preparing data for Template by Bod
in thread Preparing data for Template by Bod

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