Cairo Station (1958) colour palette
Directed by Youssef Chahine · Shot by Alevise Orfanelli
- #020202near black · 18.1%
- #8a8a8amid grey · 15.1%
- #c9c9c9light grey · 14.3%
- #fbfbfbnear white · 13.2%
- #474747dark grey · 11.7%
- #303030dark grey · 10.9%
Cairo Station (1958), shot by Alevise Orfanelli, is monochrome: across 53 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 near black (#020202), covering 18.1% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.
Colour
Monochrome
below 0.05 mean saturation
Saturation
monochrome
0 — more saturated than 0% of ranked films
Luminance
mid-key
0.471 — brighter than 86% of ranked films
Measured across 53 frames. See the frames on the Cairo Station page →
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