Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/How a Mosquito Operates

How a Mosquito Operates

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 28 Aug 2013 at 08:04:05 (UTC)

Original – How a Mosquito Operates, a 1912 animated film by Winsor McCay

Reason: High resolution DVD rip of a notable film, public domain, so old that there's no advertising concerns
Articles in which this image appears: How a Mosquito Operates
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Entertainment
Creator: Winsor McCay

Support as nominator -- — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:04, 18 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Notable, and, while it has the jerky repetetiveness a lot of very early cartoons do - McCay was, I believe, one of the first animators, and tended to narrate over the films as a vaudiville act, so there's often some long pauses for when he spoke. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 10:39, 21 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Well that was disturbing. ~~Oppose~~....only joking. Support. I do have a question though. In the article it says, "The paper called the film 'a marvelous arrangement of colored drawings', referring to the final explosive sequence (which McCay had hand-painted red)." Is there a reason this version is all black instead of having the original red at the end? Rreagan007 (talk) 05:57, 22 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Paging Curly Turkey, who'd know much more than I about that question. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:49, 22 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  - The original was entirely black-and-white. McCay hand-painted the red onto the actual frames of the film, something he did on File:Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics - Little Nemo (1911).webm earlier. There was (most likely) only one coloured version made, and it was made for McCay's vaudeville show. McCay's films have been poorly preserved—Canemaker gives the story in his McCay bio, and it makes it seem a miracle any of them have survived at all. At least one film has been lost entirely, and some others survive only in fragments. I assume the coloured version of Mosquito was one of the cans of film that was discovered that had to be destroyed before it spontaneously combusted, if it survived even that long. There was a live-action prologue to Mosquito that has been entirely lost as well, and not one of the original drawings have survived, either. It may even be that not all of the animated portion has survived—notice how abrupt the ending is? Curly Turkey (gobble) 13:23, 22 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support as uploader, though I hope this nomination doesn't detract from potential nominations for File:Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics - Little Nemo (1911).webm or File:Winsor McCay (1918) The Sinking of the Lusitania.webm, which I think are stronger contenders and have higher levels of interest. Curly Turkey (gobble) 13:27, 22 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- No, no detraction from future nominations of different films (different EV) — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:04, 22 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:32, 28 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not enough support for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:32, 28 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]