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Tuesday, June 9th, 2015 6:05 PM

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Please put photo of actor from movie not the current photo. Showing current photo is confusing when I look up old movies

Please put photo of actor from movie not the current photo. Showing current photo is confusing when I look up old movies

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9 years ago

This would be very useful. However, it is impractical.

IMDb only uses image that it owns, has permission to use or licenses. Most older films have few, if any images available. For example, The Thin Man
(1934) 

(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025878/) only has six images available in the photo gallery (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025878/mediaindex). Even with the number one film in IMDb's Top 250, The Shawshank Redemption
(1994) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/), the photo gallery (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/mediaindex) does not have the suitable images necessary to implement your idea.

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Its been under consideration for NINE FREAKING YEARS. Stop making excuses!

Permissions and Licenses have always applied to CURRENT photos so what DIDNT stop that?  REGARDLESS, YOU REASONABLY KNOW USERS NEED BOTH!

Put BOTH Current and TIME-OF-FILM/CREDIT PHOTO. Current on the LEFT and the old one on the RIGHT.  Let the USER update the older photo just as they are now Contributors. If licensing was so worried about permission, theyd have come down on contributors possibly spreading inaccurate information. But the current no-permission system has worked mostly fine thus far.

If you dont provide BOTH users will get lost or confused. For example Ron Howard looks like a Space Alien today compared to "Richie Cunningham." Nobody could locate anyone after too much time passed.

Talk to the entire industry and get their implied permission to do this as it also serves a public interest.

On behalf of all users, thank you!

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9 years ago

The idea is good and under consideration... however as Dan points out, we aren't quite there yet from a practical perspective. ETA.... unknown.