"Random" (and misrepresented) images in Photos collection for Tarzan: The Epic Adventures

It is interesting that the title was untagged from the images, but (at least some of) the images are still listed and can be seen in the title's cast list since they are headshots for several of the cast members. My guess is that this was the main purpose of these image uploads, which must have been made by someone with special access. I have seen the same pattern on other titles in the past. As a user I can't really have a problem with names having headshots, but I'm a little surprised that IMDb allows it.

@Peter_pbn​ Yeah, someone has clearly twigged to the potential for the phrase "at an event for" to serve as a magical passkey, one that lets them submit any photo of an actor to any title. If successful, it bypasses messy considerations like whether the actor is in costume, or has visibly aged from their appearance in the role, etc. Hopefully staff will try to tighten the acceptance criteria for those submissions a bit.

I confess I didn't look closely enough, before this was corrected, to see whether the pictured actors' headshots were supplied by the uploads to this series, but... I doubt it. While I'm not intimately familiar with the process, AIUI there are better ways of submitting a photo for a name page. I suspect this went in the other direction — someone harvested the actors' headshots from their IMDb pages and re-submitted them as title photos. I still don't understand why they'd do that, but I doubt I ever will.

@FeRDNYC​ 

I did check, and the headshots are the same image uploads as the ones in the title gallery — they have the same media numbers. If you don't take my word for it, you can see some of the images and their URLs on this archived page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260105002213/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115385/

For example

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115385/mediaviewer/rm1827735553/

is the same as

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0135131/mediaviewer/rm1827735553/

Usually the only way to submit a photo to a name page is to pay for IMDbPro and claim the page as a representative. It is possible the images were submitted by someone with special access to name pages (but then why tag the title?)

Anyone can submit images to a title page, but a regular user did not submit these as they would not have appeared atop the gallery like they did, nor would they normally be added to name pages. But IMDb also lets associated companies representatives submit images through a feature called Scorecard.