Stray Dog Movie Barcode

1949 · dir. Jean-Pierre Melville · 124 min · 1.37:1 · crime

Amber / Blue palette · Very dark · 330 stripes

This movie barcode compresses all 124 minutes of Stray Dog 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 Jean-Pierre Melville in 1949 and framed at 1.37:1, the crime palette shows up as bands of colour you can read at a glance.