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Poor Quality Images in the 1930s - 1960s Films
Hi,
To give you a truncated version of a background. Years ago there was a prolific IMDb IMDb contributor who doesn't contribute anymore. He did it for 20 years and was well thought of by some because people didn't really understand how much his lines were padded to say it nicely with useless or inaccurate information.
Anyways he was allowed to be a beta tester for image submissions and when IMDb opened up the floodgates to allow users to submit images he ran wild. (I knew him personally) Anyways he was a hoarder for images, etc and didn't care what he submitted and this led to thousands of poor quality images being submitted. Over the last few years I've probably submitted a few hundred deletion submissions and usually they were accepted due to poor quality but can a staff member please look up the contributor and go through his images? There's without a doubt 4 figures easily) of them and I figure it'd be so much easier than to have to keep doing it. He is in his late 80s and he literally was submitting photos of cereal box membership cards he got when was like 7. A decent amount of films are cleaned up over the years but here are just a few the guy submitted and it's just the tip of the iceberg. There are several that are far far worse quality. A lot of them look like they were taken through mesh fences basically.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033395/mediaviewer/rm3972851200/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033395/mediaviewer/rm3025148416/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033395/mediaviewer/rm4123846144/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036292/mediaviewer/rm3089164032/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036292/mediaviewer/rm2837505792/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035938/mediaviewer/rm1718806272?ref_=ttmi_mi_all_sf_2
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035680/mediaviewer/rm2613383936?ref_=ttmi_mi_all_pos_8
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035680/mediaviewer/rm3888452352/
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Michelle
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17.5K Messages
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313.3K Points
1 year ago
Hi @phillip -
Thanks for your report. I have now removed the images you reported above, I have also filed a ticket (#P93680404) for the appropriate team requesting an audit and review.
Cheers!
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Marco
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1 year ago
@phillip " Years ago there was a prolific IMDb IMDb contributor who doesn't contribute anymore. "
I'm surprised to learn that this contributor apparently doesn't contribute anymore. Do you happen to know why he doesn't contribute anymore?
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Bethanny
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1 year ago
Hi @phillip -
Images were reviewed by our staff and most of them are good enough to stay considering the original source material, of course if we have 2 images that are the same and 1 is better quality then that one can stay, as of now images contributed are of good value and will stay. A couple of them with very bad quality were deleted, if you notice any where quality is too low please report individually.
Thanks!
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