Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/A Trip Down Market Street

A Trip Down Market Street

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Original – A Trip Down Market Street, a 1906 film of San Francisco before the earthquake and fire

Reason: the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress
Articles in which this image appears: A Trip Down Market Street
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/USA History
Creator: Miles Brothers

Support as nominator – Yann (talk) 11:14, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support for historical reasons, of course, and because I like it. High EV, it helps understand traffic in former times. --Tremonist (talk) 13:18, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Interesting slice of life at a time when the U.S. was transitioning from horses to cars. Very good res. for the period – much better than, for example, this 1909 footage of Mark Twain. Sca (talk) 15:05, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Lovely and high EV. Wolftick (talk) 16:08, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Though I do think it's a bit of a shame that so much additional digital compression is added to archival digital transfers of analogue film stock. Treated as a series of stills this would not be acceptable. Much larger file sizes and higher resolutions would be preferable for any analogue to digital transfer, whatever the perceived quality or age of the original. Wolftick (talk) 16:08, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There is DVD quality version (Quicktime, 2.3 GB) on IA. It would interesting to make a free codec version out of that. I have neither the processing power not the bandwidth necessary for that. Regards, Yann (talk) 18:11, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I downloaded the 2.3GB version and it is a lot better: File:Market street comparison.jpg. It seems to me to be a bit troubling promoting the current version when they is a substantially better free version easily available for want of transcoding. I think I can transcode and upload it myself but it would take some time. If anyone with more bandwidth, computing power and expertise wants to step into the breach feel free. Wolftick (talk) 20:57, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Wolftick: I think you could simply upload over this one. If it is the same film, I don't see an issue with this FP nomination, or the need to keep an old version if we have a better one. Regards, Yann (talk) 08:46, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support – shot one month before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Vesuvius Dogg (talk) 17:19, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Very cool and high EV. APK whisper in my ear 18:43, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:19, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Jobas (talk) 17:04, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I have a much nicer webm version of this based on the high quality version on archive.org. The compression on the current version is really horrible and damaging when viewed in direct comparison (File:Market street comparison.jpg). I was wondering what the policy/practice on uploading large (≈1GB) videos is? Wolftick (talk) 20:37, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- It is supported, through the chunked uploads script. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:53, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support –Hafspajen (talk) 12:59, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - DreamSparrow ^Chat 16:46, 16 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:A Trip Down Market Street (High Res).webm --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:34, 22 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]