The Night Of The Hunter (1955) colour palette
Directed by Charles Laughton · Shot by Stanley Cortez
- #030303near black · 22.2%
- #2e2e2edark grey · 14.5%
- #8a8a8amid grey · 12.6%
- #6d6d6dmid grey · 11.4%
- #474747dark grey · 11.1%
- #fafafanear white · 10.5%
The Night Of The Hunter (1955), shot by Stanley Cortez, 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 22.2% 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
0.413 — brighter than 50% of ranked films
Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the The Night Of The Hunter page →
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