Freaks (1932) colour palette

Directed by Tod Browning · Shot by Merritt B. Gerstad

#030303near black · 18.7%
#303030dark grey · 13.5%
#8d8d8dmid grey · 13.5%
#6f6f6fmid grey · 12.3%
#cbcbcblight grey · 11.9%
#484848dark grey · 10.6%

Freaks (1932), shot by Merritt B. Gerstad, is monochrome: across 63 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 (#030303), covering 18.7% 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

0.441 — brighter than 71% of ranked films

Measured across 63 frames. See the frames on the Freaks page →

Films that grade like this

Nearest by warmth, saturation and luminance across 1,568 ranked films — measured, not matched on genre.

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1956 · Stanley Kubrick

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1962 · Robert Mulligan

Strangers on a Train

1951 · Alfred Hitchcock

Ed Wood

1994 · Tim Burton

The 400 Blows

1959 · François Truffaut

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