Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) colour palette
Directed by Boris Ingster · Shot by Nicholas Musuraca
- #020202near black · 20.6%
- #fcfcfcnear white · 13.5%
- #8a8a8amid grey · 13.2%
- #323232dark grey · 12.9%
- #c8c8c8light grey · 12.3%
- #717171mid grey · 10.2%
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940), shot by Nicholas Musuraca, 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 (#020202), covering 20.6% 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
0.457 — brighter than 80% of ranked films
Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Stranger on the Third Floor page →
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