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A flash of red. A long, blue night. The warm light of a familiar room. Color is part of how we remember a film, even when we don’t notice it.
Movie Barcodes takes one frame from every second of a film, averages its colors, and places them side by side. Left to right, beginning to end. What remains is the film’s color story, all in one image.
This is a growing visual archive of cinema. A place to rediscover a favorite, find something unfamiliar, and see a film in a different light.
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