My Neighbor Totoro Movie Barcode

1988 · dir. Hayao Miyazaki · 86 min · 1.85:1 · animation

Green / Blue palette · Balanced · 321 stripes

This movie barcode compresses all 86 minutes of My Neighbor Totoro into a single image: every shot is averaged to one colour and laid down as a vertical stripe, left to right, opening frame to end credits. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki in 1988 and framed at 1.85:1, the animation palette shows up as bands of colour you can read at a glance.