To Be or Not To Be (1942) colour palette
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch · Shot by Rudolph Maté
- #060606near black · 17.2%
- #8d8d8dmid grey · 12.9%
- #717171mid grey · 12.9%
- #303030dark grey · 12.6%
- #cccccclight grey · 11.7%
- #494949dark grey · 11.1%
To Be or Not To Be (1942), shot by Rudolph Maté, 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 (#060606), covering 17.2% 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
0.458 — brighter than 81% of ranked films
Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the To Be or Not To Be page →
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