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Les Carabiniers poster

Les Carabiniers (1963) colour palette

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard · Shot by Raoul Coutard

Les Carabiniers (1963), shot by Raoul Coutard, is monochrome: across 61 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 mid grey (#8a8a8a), covering 16.4% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Colour

Monochrome

below 0.05 mean saturation

Saturation

monochrome

0.003 — more saturated than 4% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.49 — brighter than 92% of ranked films

Measured across 61 frames. See the frames on the Les Carabiniers page →

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