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

Movie barcode

The Matrix

1999 · Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski · 2 h 16 min

Most of The Matrix is green-grey and near-black. Its brightest stretch is at 0:40:12, and its darkest at 1:01:06. It opens and ends in near-black.

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.

Scrub through it

In Fade to Color, hold the barcode to scrub through The Matrix scene by scene, draw it as a spiral, tree rings or a bookshelf, or make it your wallpaper. And name films from their colors alone, five a day.

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