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Arlington Road (1999) colour palette

Directed by Mark Pellington · Shot by Bobby Bukowski

Arlington Road (1999), shot by Bobby Bukowski, runs heavily desaturated and warm, measured across 197 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#2f2f2f), covering 13.2% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

warm

0.293 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.151 — more saturated than 9% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.478 — brighter than 88% of ranked films

Measured across 197 frames. See the frames on the Arlington Road page →

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