The Lady Eve (1941) colour palette
Directed by Preston Sturges · Shot by Victor Milner
- #050505near black · 16.6%
- #898989mid grey · 14.1%
- #c9c9c9light grey · 14.1%
- #f9f9f9near white · 13.8%
- #454545dark grey · 12.8%
- #2d2d2ddark grey · 11.7%
The Lady Eve (1941), shot by Victor Milner, is monochrome: across 58 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 (#050505), covering 16.6% 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
0.473 — brighter than 87% of ranked films
Measured across 58 frames. See the frames on the The Lady Eve page →
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