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The Mummy (1932 film)[edit]

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Original – The film poster for The Mummy, a 1932 horror film, directed by Karl Freund and released by Universal Studios
Reason
High quality, high EV. Attractive aesthetically as well.
Articles in which this image appears
The Mummy (1932 film)
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Entertainment
Creator
Employee(s) of Universal Pictures, attributed to Karoly Grosz
  • Support as nominator --Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:27, 2 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Great quality scan! —Eustress talk 15:00, 2 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Great colors and detail. High EV. MathewTownsend (talk) 18:00, 2 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support There are a couple of green stripes: one through the writing and her dress and a shorter one to the left of the bottom of her dress. Are these on the original or did the scanner create them. If the latter, could this be fixed. Colin°Talk 10:37, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'll take a look at them. If I decide that they are scanning artefacts, hopefully I can remove them. Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:44, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Kinda sick of looking at film posters in GIMP today though... this morning was dedicated to To Be or Not to Be and I'm not entirely pleased with the results. Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:47, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Classic. -- Saffron Blaze (talk) 13:53, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support looks great --Guerillero | My Talk 13:40, 5 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment The poster is attributed to Karoly Grosz (the artist not the politician) and for a while held the record for the most expensive movie poster ever sold. The colours look a bit off in this version. Yomanganitalk 00:23, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    Christies' restoration image for comparison (though they can't keep the colours the same between the two images). Yomanganitalk 00:35, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • To me, the pre-restored version is near the colours we have here. Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:05, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Don't both of the others appear to have much deeper greens? Compare his hands for example. Also the Christies' images have more purple in her dress and in the "curtain" behind "It comes to life!". Since there are only two complete copies known to exist we don't have much of a comparison set and it could be that this image has the right colour balance and the other reproductions are off, but I wanted to check you didn't alter the colours and that they they look similar to your original source. Yomanganitalk 18:23, 8 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oh, haven't touched the colours. The only modifying I did was removing a slight green scanning artifact after this was nominated. The original upload is the same as the file on the LA library's site. (only two copies? Oh my) Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:02, 8 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:The Mummy 1932 film poster.jpg --Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 09:43, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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