Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) colour palette
Directed by Stanley Kubrick · Shot by Gilbert Taylor
- #050505near black · 23.6%
- #303030dark grey · 16.4%
- #8f8f8fmid grey · 12.9%
- #cccccclight grey · 12.1%
- #6c6c6cmid grey · 10.7%
- #4a4a4adark grey · 10.4%
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), shot by Gilbert Taylor, is monochrome: across 56 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 (#050505), covering 23.6% 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
0.401 — brighter than 41% of ranked films
Measured across 56 frames. See the frames on the Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb page →
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