The Big Night (1951) colour palette
Directed by Joseph Losey · Shot by Hal Mohr
- #030303near black · 19.4%
- #cbcbcblight grey · 17.1%
- #909090mid grey · 15.3%
- #303030dark grey · 14.1%
- #6b6b6bmid grey · 12.9%
- #464646dark grey · 9.4%
The Big Night (1951), shot by Hal Mohr, is monochrome: across 34 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 19.4% 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
0.431 — brighter than 62% of ranked films
Measured across 34 frames. See the frames on the The Big Night page →
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