Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Gertie the Dinosaur

Gertie the Dinosaur

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Original – Gertie the Dinosaur, a 1914 animated short film by American cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay. Initially purely animated and used in McKay's vaudeville act, for a theatrical release the artist added live-action bits in which he interacts with the dinosaur.

Reason: High resolution video in a featured article. Interesting both for being an early example of animation and for combining animation and live action. Oh yeah, and dinosaurs. We all love dinosaurs.
Articles in which this image appears: Gertie the Dinosaur, Winsor McCay
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Entertainment
Creator: Winsor McCay

Support as nominator – — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:09, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Iconic. One of the better prints I've seen, even though the video interlacing shows pretty strongly... --Janke | Talk 07:57, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Note—apparently Nathan and Crafton are involved in a digital restoration of the film, including some lost frames. Whenever it happens to get released, it'll be way higher quality than this (taken from a DVD). Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 06:40, 8 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Without a doubt, but "whenever it happens to be released" is a fairly uncertain thing to depend on. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:59, 8 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 02:33, 14 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]