Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Steamboat Willie (2)

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Original – Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. Mickey Mouse debuts in this film.

Reason: It has to be nominated.
Articles in which this image appears: Steamboat Willie etc.
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Entertainment
Creator: Walt Disney

Support as nominator – MER-C 10:14, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Conditional support - There is just one question: is this an absolute original, without any later restoration or modification that might still be under copyright? The video size is 1,296×1,080 pixels, almost totally scratch free, which clearly indicates a hi-res transfer done by Disney. Interestingly, here in Finland, the source link on the file info page "https://video.disney.com/watch/steamboat-willie-4ea9de5180b375f7476ada2c" does not display the movie, but automatically changes to https://www.disney.fi/ - I assume this is done by Disney's server? --Janke | Talk 14:03, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: For anyone interested, just a few days ago, Disney uploaded their "Once upon a Studio" short on their YouTube channel. It's a wonderful trip to 100 years of nostalgia: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB90me0aqSY" ... --Janke | Talk 14:07, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment No one knows. The copyright card says MCMXXIX rather than MCMXXVIII however the only things that look like they might be post 1928 are the copyright card itself and the end-card. Both feature gloved Mickey. Gloved mickey doesn't make his animated debut until The Opry House in early 1929. There is a possible gloved Mickey from 1928 mind File:Steamboat Willie 1928 Poster.png. What I suspect is going on what that at some point in 1929 Steamboat was being offered to distributes as a bundle with other mickey shorts and the copyright card and end card were added at that point but its hard to be sure.©Geni (talk) 00:29, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment @Janke: the link works correctly for me (in the US). The current revision of the file is the same as the source, but with the black bars on the side cropped out, hence 1296 instead of 1920 (I used HandBrake for it). The first revision of the file is identical to what is available from the Disney website (no cropping). There's some more details in this Commons discussion. Legoktm (talk) 17:33, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support – It premiered in November 1928. I don't think the concerns expressed above are sufficient to merit a separate copyright for the nominated animation. Bammesk (talk) 02:31, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support We usually wait for a week after the file is uploaded and/or added to articles, isn't? But well... – Yann (talk) 16:54, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes but not "in obvious cases" per FP criterion #5. Bammesk (talk) 02:12, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's also not typical to run the POTD for the item a day before the corresponding FPC 😊 — Amakuru (talk) 20:00, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Steamboat Willie (1928) by Walt Disney.webm --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:19, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]