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Sleepy Hollow (1999) colour palette

Directed by Tim Burton · Shot by Emmanuel Lubezki

Sleepy Hollow (1999), shot by Emmanuel Lubezki, runs heavily desaturated and balanced, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and cyan. The single most common colour is dark grey (#2d2e2d), covering 15.4% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

balanced

0.219 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.147 — more saturated than 8% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.345 — brighter than 10% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Sleepy Hollow page →

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