The Maltese Falcon (1941) colour palette
Directed by John Huston · Shot by Arthur Edeson
- #030303near black · 20%
- #303030dark grey · 14.7%
- #8d8d8dmid grey · 13.8%
- #cdcdcdlight grey · 13.4%
- #6d6d6dmid grey · 12.8%
- #aaaaaalight grey · 8.8%
The Maltese Falcon (1941), shot by Arthur Edeson, is monochrome: across 65 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 20% 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 63% of ranked films
Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the The Maltese Falcon page →
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