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Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator poster

Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (1967) colour palette

Directed by Dušan Makavejev · Shot by Aleksandar Petković

Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (1967), shot by Aleksandar Petković, is monochrome: across 50 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 (#888888), covering 15.6% 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

0.489 — brighter than 92% of ranked films

Measured across 50 frames. See the frames on the Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator page →

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