Battleship Potemkin (1925) colour palette
Directed by Sergei Eisenstein · Shot by Eduard Tisse
- #4c4b4bdark grey · 14.8%
- #020202near black · 14.8%
- #8a8a89mid grey · 13.8%
- #afafaflight grey · 13.5%
- #fafafanear white · 11.7%
- #cdcdcdlight grey · 11.1%
Battleship Potemkin (1925), shot by Eduard Tisse, is monochrome: across 65 sampled frames the palette carries effectively no colour, so its look is built from mid-key tonal range rather than hue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#4c4b4b), covering 14.8% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.
Colour
Monochrome
below 0.05 mean saturation
Saturation
monochrome
0.005 — more saturated than 4% of ranked films
Luminance
mid-key
0.478 — brighter than 88% of ranked films
Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Battleship Potemkin page →
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