Fade to Color
Mulholland Drive’s movie barcode: its colors from the first frame to the last, left to right

Mulholland Drive

2001 · David Lynch · 2 h 27 min

start to finish

Most of Mulholland Drive is brown-grey and near-black. Its brightest stretch is at 0:15:28, and its darkest at 2:09:48. It opens in violet-grey and ends in brown-grey.

A movie barcode is a whole film in one picture: its frames averaged into colors and laid side by side, the first on the left and the last on the right.

Color palette

The colors Mulholland Drive is made of, most first, and how much of the film each one fills.

Beginning to end

The first third of Mulholland Drive is mostly brown. The middle is about as bright, mostly brown-grey. The last third is darker than that, mostly near-black.

Mulholland Drive’s colors drawn as a ring
As a ring, from the top, clockwise
Mulholland Drive’s colors drawn as ripples
As ripples, spreading from a corner

Scrub through it

In Fade to Color, hold the barcode to scrub through Mulholland Drive scene by scene, draw it as a spiral, a ripple or dunes, or make it your wallpaper. And name films from their colors alone, five a day.

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