Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The General

The General

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Original – The General is a 1926 American silent film released by United Artists. It was inspired by the Great Locomotive Chase, a true story of an event that occurred during the American Civil War. The story was adapted from the 1889 memoir The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittenger. The film stars Buster Keaton who co-directed it with Clyde Bruckman.

Reason

An iconic Buster Keaton movie that was was one of the first 25 films inducted in the National Film Registry. This might be the best quality of the film on here and definitely has the EV for its respective page.

Articles in which this image appears

The General (1926 film)

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Entertainment

Creator

United Artists

• Support as nominator – GamerPro64 04:10, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
• Support -- Excellent video quality (not apparent in the still), also a most famous film, top EV! --Janke | Talk 12:58, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
  • Can the still be changed to another, recognizable frame from the film? (Say, Keaton sitting on the coupling rod of the loco?) --Janke | Talk 15:39, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

• Done, see this for how to. It can be done in the article too. Bammesk (talk) 16:10, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

• Great, thanks! (Even though that's the coupler, not the coupling rod... anyway, it's just as good - or even better! ;-) --Janke | Talk 19:32, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

• To be fair, when nominating movies here there is not timestamp section in the template. So you can't really add a timestamp until after you make the nomination. GamerPro64 21:10, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

• Support – Bammesk (talk) 14:58, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
• Support.--Vulcan❯❯Sphere! 17:34, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
• Support Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.7% of all FPs} 23:01, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Promoted File:The General (1926).webm --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:51, 25 April 2022 (UTC)