Letter Never Sent (1960) colour palette

Directed by Mikheil Kalatozishvili · Shot by Sergei Urusevsky

#040404near black · 16%
#303030dark grey · 15.4%
#909090mid grey · 14.8%
#cdcdcdlight grey · 13.8%
#6d6d6dmid grey · 13.8%
#4c4c4cdark grey · 11.7%

Letter Never Sent (1960), shot by Sergei Urusevsky, is monochrome: across 65 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 (#040404), covering 16% 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

0.44 — brighter than 70% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Letter Never Sent page →

Films that grade like this

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

The Killing

1956 · Stanley Kubrick

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1957 · Stanley Kubrick

To Kill A Mockingbird

1962 · Robert Mulligan

Strangers on a Train

1951 · Alfred Hitchcock

The Seventh Seal

1957 · Ingmar Bergman

Double Indemnity

1944 · Billy Wilder

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