The Killing (1956) colour palette
Directed by Stanley Kubrick · Shot by Lucien Ballard
- #010101near black · 19.4%
- #8b8b8bmid grey · 16.2%
- #313131dark grey · 14.9%
- #cacacalight grey · 12.4%
- #6e6e6emid grey · 10.8%
- #fcfcfcnear white · 10.2%
The Killing (1956), shot by Lucien Ballard, is monochrome: across 63 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 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
0.44 — brighter than 70% of ranked films
Measured across 63 frames. See the frames on the The Killing page →
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