Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/White Zombie poster

White Zombie poster[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 31 May 2012 at 01:17:55 (UTC)

Reason: Interesting poster for a significant film (the first zombie movie)
Articles in which this image appears: White Zombie (film)
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Entertainment
Creator: Unknown, possibly employee(s) of United Artists, restored by Crisco 1492

Support as nominator -- — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:17, 22 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - A notable movie perhaps (in that it represents the first celluloid outing for what is a currently popular subject - albeit IMO one suffering from meme-fatigue) but the poster is not. The design is a basic, derivative style typical of contemporary pulp culture and the graphics undistinguished. Also, whilst I can appreciate that movie posters may have been distributed with no printed info whatsoever (I don't know if that was ever the case) as it stands this looks like just a poster, not a movie poster. When the fact that its for a movie is crucial to its status. Plutonium27 (talk) 21:43, 22 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I understand, although admittedly do not agree, with most of your comments. However, I must admit that insisting that the words "movie", "film", or something similar is on the poster seems a bit much. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:59, 22 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

* I was thinking of the standard cinema printed credits that would to show this was indeed distributed to publicise a movie. Plutonium27 (talk) 13:12, 26 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Question What is the source for the "Employee(s) of United Artists" credit? Yomangani ^talk 00:10, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

My default for when there is no artist credited directly: credit the distributor. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:36, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sloppy. "Unknown" is a very prolific and versatile artist. Yomangani ^talk 00:51, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I find "Unknown" sloppier when there is a reasonable idea of the employ of the creator (for example, "Employee of United Press" would be better than simply "Unknown". — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:54, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Unknown, possibly employee(s) of United Artists" would be better here. White Zombie went through several abortive distribution deals before it got to UA and their other in-house created promotional material usually has "Released through United Artists" or something similar on it somewhere. Yomangani ^talk 01:11, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:37, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Dusty777 18:02, 31 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]