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The Crawling Eye (1958) colour palette

Directed by Quentin Lawrence · Shot by Monty Berman

The Crawling Eye (1958), shot by Monty Berman, is monochrome: across 43 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 white (#f7f7f7), covering 19.1% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Colour

Monochrome

below 0.05 mean saturation

Saturation

monochrome

0.001 — more saturated than 3% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.508 — brighter than 95% of ranked films

Measured across 43 frames. See the frames on the The Crawling Eye page →

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