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Blood and Sand (1941) colour palette

Directed by Rouben Mamoulian · Shot by Ray Rennahan

Blood and Sand (1941), shot by Ray Rennahan, runs heavily desaturated and strongly warm, measured across 99 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and yellow. The single most common colour is dark grey (#32312e), covering 13.5% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.68 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.136 — more saturated than 7% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.502 — brighter than 94% of ranked films

Measured across 99 frames. See the frames on the Blood and Sand page →

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