Lolita (1962) colour palette
Directed by Stanley Kubrick · Shot by Oswald Morris
- #020202near black · 17.5%
- #fafafanear white · 13.5%
- #8a8a8amid grey · 13.2%
- #313131dark grey · 12.3%
- #c9c9c9light grey · 12.3%
- #484848dark grey · 10.8%
Lolita (1962), shot by Oswald Morris, 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 (#020202), covering 17.5% 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
0.47 — brighter than 86% of ranked films
Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Lolita page →
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