Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The X-Rays (1897).webm

The X-Rays film (1987)[edit]

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Original – The X-Rays is a 44-seconds 1897 British short silent comedy film, directed by George Albert Smith, featuring a courting couple exposed to X-rays. The trick film, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "contains one of the first British examples of special effects created by means of jump cuts Smith employs the jump-cut twice; first to transform his courting couple via "X rays," dramatized by means of the actors donning black bodysuits decorated with skeletons, and then to return them to normal. The couple in question are played by Smith's wife Laura Bayley and Tom Green (a Brighton comedian).

Reason: EV
Articles in which this image appears: The X-Rays
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Entertainment
Creator: George Albert Smith

Support as nominator – Alborzagros (talk) 10:25, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice find, there are few movies older than this, so we can overlook the quality issues... ;-) --Janke | Talk 11:01, 2 November 2015

Actually not, the quality of this British Film Institute upload is much better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gMCkFRMJQQ Also note that the nonimated film is severely cropped on the right side, thus, Oppose. --Janke | Talk 11:04, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I watched video in youtube but didn't notice any differences. Alborzagros (talk) 13:38, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Didn't you notice how the right side is cut off - probably in order to hide the BFI logo... Did you do that? --Janke | Talk 19:48, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

note - Direct link [1] of video in commons. Alborzagros (talk) 13:41, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I suggest Speedy Close due to the cutting of the BFI logo! --Janke | Talk 19:51, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Question what is a BFI logo? Alborzagros (talk) 09:14, 3 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

See my comments above, but I'll spell it out: BFI = British Film Institute. Logo = their watermark at top right in the original, which is cut off in your upload. Get it? ;-) --Janke | Talk 08:58, 4 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per Janke. --Tremonist (talk) 14:52, 3 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment It seems this is not in the public domain in the UK, so the file should be moved locally. Yann (talk) 17:18, 4 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Janke - Jobas (talk) 00:15, 8 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:32, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]