Comments on: Movie poster colors through history

By: awjt

awjt — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:10:00 +0000

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By: SomeGuyNamedMark

SomeGuyNamedMark — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:59:00 +0000

All movie ideas are collapsing to a singularity

By: Henry Pootel

Henry Pootel — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:41:00 +0000

They should chat with the Etsy search people (
http://www.etsy.com/color.php?ref=fp_nav_colors)

By: Andrew Rockefeller

Andrew Rockefeller — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:52:00 +0000

1,578 titles for the year 1924…
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?year=1924,1924&title_type=feature&sort=moviemeter,asc

By: Shawn H Corey

Shawn H Corey — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:28:00 +0000

It shows hue but not saturation or value. It can answer questions like how much black was used in the posters?

By: Eric Harshbarger

Eric Harshbarger — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:25:00 +0000

How cool. And for me very coincidental as just this weekend I made a chart that illustrates the past 30 years of movies that mention colors in their titles:

http://www.ericharshbarger.org/movies/colors_in_titles.html

By: ImmutableMichael

ImmutableMichael — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:18:00 +0000

I see they are becoming increasingly blue-shifted and accelerating towards us at growing rates. Some sort of dark energy is probably at work, probably James Cameron.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:38:00 +0000

You can search by decade, or you can click the year next to any title to get the most popular films from that year. I think that there used to be a better “year’ search tool.

By: Sarah Dearne

Sarah Dearne — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:28:00 +0000

This is really cool! Interesting that teal shades have become more popular.

By: Rider

Rider — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:14:00 +0000

The sample sets used are insanely small for anything from before the 70′s. Pretty meaningless.

By: scav

scav — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:01:00 +0000

I wish IMDB would let you search by year…

… or by colour of movie poster actually.

By: Aeron

Aeron — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 08:50:00 +0000

We don’t talk about 1924.

By: RuthlessRuben

RuthlessRuben — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 08:43:00 +0000

Call me a Renegade, but I actually like Teal and Orange. It’s like Gin and Tonic to me.

By: Marc Mielke

Marc Mielke — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 08:39:00 +0000

What happened in 1924?

By: sam1148

sam1148 — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 05:57:00 +0000

I’d guess the data was collected from archival prints. Some of the colors on old prints shift to blue over time even with good storage.

By: EH

EH — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 05:51:00 +0000

You can see the increase in blues and decrease in reds, corresponding to the Teal-Orange Era:

http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-hollywood-please-stop.html

By: Ryan Holmes

Ryan Holmes — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 05:01:00 +0000

I’d love to hear a corresponding analysis from someone in the industry. Im also reminded that A LOT of comedy movie posters are white with red type.

By: retchdog

retchdog — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 04:45:00 +0000

so how did the movie posters of 1920-21 predict the future? temporal disturbance caused by the end of wwi?