A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) colour palette

Directed by Elia Kazan · Shot by Harry Stradling Sr.

#030303near black · 20%
#2f2f2fdark grey · 17.9%
#939393mid grey · 16.1%
#6a6a6amid grey · 14.8%
#cececelight grey · 13.3%
#4c4c4cdark grey · 8.2%

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), shot by Harry Stradling Sr., is monochrome: across 66 sampled frames the palette carries effectively no colour, so its look is built from dark tonal range rather than hue. The single most common colour is near black (#030303), covering 20% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Colour

Monochrome

below 0.05 mean saturation

Saturation

monochrome

0 — more saturated than 0% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.397 — brighter than 38% of ranked films

Measured across 66 frames. See the frames on the A Streetcar Named Desire page →

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