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When Trumpets Fade (1998) colour palette

Directed by John Irvin · Shot by Thomas Burstyn

When Trumpets Fade (1998), shot by Thomas Burstyn, runs heavily desaturated and warm, measured across 89 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#32312e), covering 19.8% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

warm

0.593 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.163 — more saturated than 12% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.34 — brighter than 7% of ranked films

Measured across 89 frames. See the frames on the When Trumpets Fade page →

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