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A Paramount Pictures promotional photo-montage illustrating Fred Astaire and a chorus of Fred Astaires performing a celebrated solo dance routine to "Puttin' on the Ritz" in Blue Skies (1946).

Source: It is reproduced on page 262 of John Mueller: Astaire Dancing - The Musical Films of Fred Astaire, Knopf 1985, ISBN 0394516540

[edit] Fair use rationale

The picture is used in the article Blue Skies to illustrate the artist one of his most celebrated solo dance routines which is commented on in depth in the article. The photograph has been used for a similar purpose in a leading printed critical study.
As of August,2006 it is the only photograph in the article.
The photograph as reproduced here is of a resolution substantially inferior to the original.

This is a copyrighted image that has been released by a company or organization to promote their work or product in the media, such as advertising material or a promotional photo in a press kit.

The copyright for it is most likely owned by the company who created the promotional item or the artist who produced the item in question; you must provide evidence of such ownership. Lack of such evidence is grounds for deletion.

It is believed that the use of some images of promotional material to illustrate:

the person(s), product, event, or subject in question
where the image is unrepeatable, i.e. a free image could not be created to replace it
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other usage of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Publicity photos.

Additionally, the copyright holder may have granted permission for use in works such as Wikipedia. However, if they have, this permission likely does not fall under a free license.

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