The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) colour palette
Directed by Vincente Minnelli · Shot by Robert Surtees
- #010101near black · 18.1%
- #303030dark grey · 14.4%
- #8c8c8cmid grey · 13.4%
- #cbcbcblight grey · 12.8%
- #6f6f6fmid grey · 11.9%
- #fdfdfdnear white · 11.6%
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), shot by Robert Surtees, is monochrome: across 64 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 (#010101), covering 18.1% 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
0.458 — brighter than 81% of ranked films
Measured across 64 frames. See the frames on the The Bad and the Beautiful page →
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