Template:Did you know nominations/A Colour Box
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:14, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
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A Colour Box
[edit]- ... that Len Lye's abstract animation A Colour Box was protested by Nazis in 1936? "The film's dancing sheets of color instantly aroused the ire of Nazi spectators present in the audience. As the German daily Film-Kurier would later report: 'The English color short A Colour Box…was met with such loud condemnatory stomping that the screening had to be stopped before the film was over.' So degenerate was the film, it seems, that despite being only three minutes in length it could not be screened in its entirety."
- Reviewed: Leptopentacta elongata
Created by Hinnk (talk). Self-nominated at 23:41, 30 April 2019 (UTC).
Would the following hook be preferable: ... that Nazis protested a 1936 screening of Len Lye's abstract animation A Colour Box and called it degenerate art? I am suggesting this to avoid the passive tense and add a little more context. I am terrible at DYK reviews and hooks though so I understand if you would prefer the original. I just wanted to offer a suggestion. Aoba47 (talk) 04:04, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- I'd be fine with that. To me it reads better without "and called it degenerate art" because then the hook is that an abstract animation could hold something worthy of protest, but either phrasing would be totally cool with me. hinnk (talk) 05:55, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
Full review needed; previous posts were just commentary. BlueMoonset (talk) 02:05, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
It's new enough (nominated on April 30, created on April 26); long enough (~4,300 bytes total, ~2,300 bytes of prose); is within all major policies, with citations; the hook length is OK, its contents are interesting to a general readership; the hook is appropriately cited and neutral; and the QPQ checks out. This is ready to go. —BLZ · talk 22:38, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
