User talk:ExRat

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Redwolf24 1 July 2005 22:37 (UTC)

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Silent Film Stars

ExRat: I've noticed you've done extensive work on silent film stars. I'm hoping to improve (and create) some articles pertaining to silent film, and I've noticed you've taken some pictures from silent-movies.org. Are all of the images from this site in the public domain? I know that anything pre-1023 should qualify, but I thought that the digital versions might be under different rules unless I'm scanning these images myself from old magazines. Wencer 20:03, 8 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

--Wencer, many of the photgraphs I used for accompanying articles indeed came from internet sources such as Silent Ladies & Gents, or [findagrave.com Find A Grave]. I am unaware and haven't read anything stating that digital versions are under another domain. I have purposely sought out photos that were pre-1923 to accompany articles. That is generally why I have focused mainly on silent film actors whose heydays were in the 1910s and very early 1920s such as: Marie Doro, Evelyn Preer and Anita Stewart and when writing articles on silent film actors from the mid- or later 1920s, where I was unsure of copyright date, I didn't include photographs; such as Lars Hanson, George O'Brien, or Mary Philbin. Or, made sure I found the earliest photographs of those individuals I could find with verifiable dating. ExRat 22:11, 8 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]