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Queen Christina (1933) colour palette

Directed by Rouben Mamoulian · Shot by William H. Daniels

Queen Christina (1933), shot by William H. Daniels, is monochrome: across 59 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 18.3% 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

0.452 — brighter than 78% of ranked films

Measured across 59 frames. See the frames on the Queen Christina page →

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