
Saboteur (1942) colour palette
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · Shot by Joseph A. Valentine
- #030303near black · 19.7%
- #303030dark grey · 16.6%
- #8f8f8fmid grey · 15%
- #cccccclight grey · 12.2%
- #6b6b6bmid grey · 11.9%
- #4b4b4bdark grey · 10%
Saboteur (1942), shot by Joseph A. Valentine, 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 (#030303), covering 19.7% 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
0.417 — brighter than 52% of ranked films
Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Saboteur page →
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