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Original – Motion picture poster for "Edison's greatest marvel--The Vitascope" show movie audience watching large screen with woman dancing on screen and others in background watching.
Alt 1 Restoration.
Reason
In good enough condition to pass Commons FPC last year without the need for restoration.
Articles in which this image appears
Vitascope
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Entertainment? (Could equally be technology, photographic equipment or artwork)
Creator
Unknown
  • Support alt 1 as nominatorMER-C 18:23, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Conditional support – Top EV, but a little restoration of the tears & creases in the corners would be welcome. --Janke | Talk 19:01, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I checked the original image at Wiki commons and found that the first image (from 22 September 2008) had retained just a slight more of the museum's mark "29057B" at the bottom right corner than the more recent image. The closing "B", for whatever reason, went amiss in the new version. No complaint, this image would still claim my full support, would I be entitled to vote (56 edits to go). Otherwise, regarding the very moderate creases, wrinkles and stains on the paper edges I would take a different stance than Janke and I would retain all as is, as it is exactly these flaws that provide this seasoned poster (now aged 123 years) with an aura of authenticity. Regarding the printed areas, some amount of retouching will certainly be necessary in other cases, but this poster makes a very well-preserved impression which IMHO renders further retouching unnecessary. -- Franz van Duns (talk) 20:53, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Curious/interesting that the projected image is shown in color. Surely would have been b&w in actuality(?) DonFB (talk) 06:15, 29 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Now, I'm not going to say the colours were necessarily as good as indicated; this is an advertisement, after all; exaggeration is a thing they do. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 6.9% of all FPs 04:11, 31 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Edison's Greatest Marvel-The Vitascope - Restoration.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 19:56, 7 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]