City Lights (1931) colour palette
Directed by Charlie Chaplin · Shot by Roland Totheroh
- #484848dark grey · 16.5%
- #030303near black · 15.5%
- #868686mid grey · 15%
- #c7c7c7light grey · 13.5%
- #f9f9f9near white · 13.5%
- #adadadlight grey · 10.5%
City Lights (1931), shot by Roland Totheroh, is monochrome: across 40 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 (#484848), covering 16.5% 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
0.484 — brighter than 90% of ranked films
Measured across 40 frames. See the frames on the City Lights page →
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