Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Chorus girls

Chorus girls

Original - The "Gaiety Dancers" of Rice & Barton's Big Gaiety Spectacular Extravaganza Company, an early American theatrical company, an example of an early chorus line.

Reason: A very nice poster showing a stage in the development of the Broadway chorus. Note that this is a lithograph, so some speckling is to be expected - it's in the very nature of the medium. I've tweaked and adjusted this, I think quite well. Restored version of File:Rice & Barton's Big Gaiety Spectacular Extravaganza Co. - Gaiety Dancers unrestored.png
Articles this image appears in: Chorus line, Extravaganza
Creator: The Courier Company, Lith. Dpt., Buffalo, N.Y

Support as nominator --Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 16:15, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Soft focus due to the intermediary film copy. Would you upload a version prior to histogram and color adjustments? There are a few tweaks I'd like to try. Best, Durova^Charge! 04:43, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm sorry, Durova, but I'm having trouble with disk space, and the pre-histogram and colour tweaks were a relattively small amou8nt of work in this case - maybe 15 minutes, compard to an hour and a half after. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 06:07, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Please link to the unrestored version from your nomination. Durova^Charge! 22:06, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - Done for SH by me. Spencer^T♦^C 03:11, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      - Weak support Would prefer sharpening and a few other tweaks, but it's good enough as is. Durova^Charge! 17:10, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom.--Mbz1 (talk) 04:09, 22 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Risqué. Sasata (talk) 07:19, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good restoration: High res and good detail. However, I'm a bit weak with the enc., because there's no actual article about the group. In this case, though, I don't find that to be much of a problem. Spencer^T♦^C 11:41, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Rice & Barton's Big Gaiety Spectacular Extravaganza Co. - Gaiety Dancers.png MER-C 07:43, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]