Out of the Past (1947) colour palette

Directed by Jacques Tourneur · Shot by Nicholas Musuraca

#020202near black · 20.4%
#323232dark grey · 15.1%
#8d8d8dmid grey · 13.1%
#6f6f6fmid grey · 12.7%
#c9c9c9light grey · 11.4%
#fcfcfcnear white · 11.4%

Out of the Past (1947), shot by Nicholas Musuraca, is monochrome: across 49 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 20.4% 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

0.442 — brighter than 71% of ranked films

Measured across 49 frames. See the frames on the Out of the Past 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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1962 · Robert Mulligan

Ed Wood

1994 · Tim Burton

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1959 · François Truffaut

Strangers on a Train

1951 · Alfred Hitchcock

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