Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)

Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962) edit

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Original – The original film poster for Billy Rose's Jumbo

Reason: Well, after the previous successful film poster nomination I decided to look for high quality, inarguably PD movie posters (i.e. American posters from before 1977 with no copyright notice). I've found several, which I will be nominating here. This one is admittedly my favourite due to its somewhat cartoonish design. It is for the 1962 film Billy Rose's Jumbo, starring Jimmy Durante, Doris Day, Martha Raye, and Stephen Boyd.
Articles in which this image appears: Billy Rose's Jumbo (film)
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Entertainment
Creator: Employee(s) of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; restored by PawełMM

Support as nominator --Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:42, 7 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral Don't know how to express my rationale, but feels in between the last two if I imagine someone looking at our FPs.TCO (Reviews needed) 15:50, 7 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- What do you mean? — raeky t 09:51, 8 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support I feel a movie poster should be far larger than this, but the scan appears clean and this is extremely relevant for the article of the film. — raeky t 09:51, 8 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Question. Why's the paper so grey? (Same thing applies to the Bounty one two down the page). --jjron (talk) 11:03, 8 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Could be fading, because that's the colour it was at the source. A white balance adjustment necessary, you think? Crisco 1492 (talk) 17:19, 8 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'd upload a colour-balance edit, but right now my main internet connection is acting up and the one I'm on compresses the ever loving **** out of files... I just downloaded the file and it came out at 700kb... Crisco 1492 (talk) 17:24, 8 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep in mind not all paper is white.... it's possible this is a more accurate color than if you balanced it to make the paper white white... — raeky t 23:08, 8 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

True, true. I wouldn't know what the original looked like though: this movie came out before my mother was born. Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:17, 8 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW the DVD cover is pure-white... Not to say that this is indicative of the original movie poster - just something I thought I'd note! Nik thestoned 15:38, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

not even related, modern paper is mostly white, but paper from that time, specifically probably cheaper paper used on movie posters at that time, could be far more off-white. Highly white paper at that time I suspect was a lot more expensive than it is now. I would say without better evidence the scan may be more closer to actual color of the original and should be trusted over attempting to try to "fix" it without any knowledge of what the original looks like. — raeky t 17:57, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 18:20, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]