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January 19

Localization wanted

I already asked on Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous), but perhaps my question is more appropriate here. Yesterday, I uploaded this historic view on the Genesee River from 1859. Unfortunately, I have no clue where it was taken exactly. I would guess somewhere in the Letchworth State Park. Does anyone know these falls? --Zinnmann (talk) 15:39, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The bridge in the background looks like the first wooden version of the Letchworth Portage Bridge - since burned down, rebuilt in steel, and rebuilt again a few years ago. The falls are about a kilometer north of the bridge. The falls have changed shape since then and probably moved a bit upriver due to erosion. See aerial view. 85.76.77.44 (talk) 16:19, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The "Lattice Bridge" in foreground.—eric 03:16, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi EricR & 85.76.77.44, thank you very much for the additianl infos. That's great. :-) I'll add it to the image description. --Zinnmann (talk) 06:45, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Releasing DVDs that had not been released

Who can I contact to ask to release a DVD that had not been released, yet or never? 86.128.233.252 (talk) 20:33, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That seems relatively futile, bearing in mind that the preferred format for release is now a digital download, and physical media is, for better or worse, deprecated. Elizium23 (talk) 20:45, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Let's not be naysayers. DVDs and BluRays are still selling well. Many people want a show they can watch whenever they want, not when Netflix decides to rent the rights for a few months. 89.172.58.25 (talk) 06:50, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Assuming you're referring to movies rather than music (or even if), you could try contacting whoever owns the rights to it. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 21:34, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Whoever owns the rights to it? Like who? 86.128.233.252 (talk) 00:08, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Find the movie's article here and see if you can deduce who might own it. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:16, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Is the questioner asking about feature films? Maybe TV movies, or films that were screened at film festivals but never received distribution? More detail would help us answer. Temerarius (talk) 01:10, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Find out the production company, distribution company and/or who was director on IMDb or TMDb and try contacting them.

Keep in mind printing a batch of DVD-ROMs is a costly process and won't be done for just a few fans. There isa website somewhere that held petitions for some old TV shows that never had a DVD issue and a few of these shows were even released on DVD, I found it a few years ago but I can't remember its address. 89.172.58.25 (talk) 06:50, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If you're a member of certain private torrent sites you can download films that have not been released on DVD. Of course I wouldn't condone such behaviour. --Viennese Waltz 08:18, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

And who can I ask to release a DVD that was never released in Region 2? 86.128.225.140 (talk) 21:49, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Have you contacted the film's production company or distribution company yet? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:15, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Schindlerjuden women's and girls' lives spared at Auschwitz

According to the film Schindler's List, why were all the female Schindlerjuden not gassed upon mistakenly arriving at Auschwitz (despite some of them being too elderly, younger, weak and sick for work/hard labour and that the disinfection chamber looked like a shower-like gas chamber as they expected) and that they were allowed to wear their own clothes instead of prison ones? 86.128.233.252 (talk) 21:38, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any evidence that this actually happened this way? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 23:55, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

According to the film, Schindler bribes Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, with a bag of diamonds to win their release. More here: [[1]]. DroneB (talk) 01:22, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That would seem to be a rather obvious plot point. I wonder how long it's been since the OP saw the film? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:42, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Films that are intended more for entertainment than for exact Historical re-enactment often contain anachronisms and collecting the goofs in Schindler's List keeps some people occupied. DroneB (talk) 14:08, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

According to film, myth, and accounts are in Crowe, David (2004). Oskar Schindler: The Untold Account of His Life, Wartime Activities, and the True Story Behind the List. pp. 388–402. Hopefully you can see the most part in the google preview.—eric 03:08, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a more detailed account, including quotes by some of those rescued. As for their clothing, in that article it says "Thomas Keneally tells in his famous book Schindler's Ark how the women were marched naked to a quartermaster's hut where they were handed the clothes of the dead." Clarityfiend (talk) 08:28, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

All of them were not gassed and were allowed to wear their own clothes because...? 86.128.225.140 (talk) 21:57, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Because of the bribes. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:07, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Before or after they were sent to Auschwitz? 86.140.215.134 (talk) 21:57, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

At what point in time does the bribe happen in the book and/or the movie? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:37, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]