Image talk:WarnerBrosStudios-1920.jpg

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Copyright undetermined RBBrittain suspects that this article (specifically [91061277 this version]) is a copyright violation, but without a source this can not be definitively determined. If this article can be shown to be a copyright infringement, please list the article on Wikipedia:Copyright problems. If you are certain that the article is not a copyright violation, you should give evidence below. Please do not remove this tag without discussion.

[edit] Accuracy and possible copyright issues

This image CANNOT be the Warner Bros. Studio of 1920. The original WB studio was a single structure on Sunset Boulevard with columns across the front; its facade is depicted in the WB shield on films of that era (including The Jazz Singer).

The design of the buildings in this image, not to mention the now-famous water tower, clearly mark this as the modern-day WB Studio in Burbank; but that was built in 1926 as the First National Studio. (WB assumed control of the studio in 1929 when it bought First National, then moved there a couple of years later.) The relatively-rural locale of the image at that time further confirms this as today's WB Studio, not the 1920 studio.

Also, the fact that this image could not have been made before 1926 renders the "public domain" tag inaccurate as generally only images made before January 1, 1923 qualify. For this reason I have placed the "cv-unsure" tag here; it may qualify as "fair use" or otherwise. --RBBrittain 12:47, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Update: The original WB lot is now the KTLA studio. According to a "virtual tour" image on the KTLA website [1] from about 5 years ago, the original studio building (columns and all) is still standing and is used for offices by Tribune Entertainment, like KTLA a unit of Tribune Company. It also shows several images of buildings on the KTLA lot; none of them have rounded, hangar-like tops (like the ones in this picture AND at the modern WB/ex-First National studio).

This further proves that this image CANNOT be as advertised; it must be of the modern-day WB studio, which didn't exist before 1926 (thus the picture cannot be assured of public-domain status). --RBBrittain 06:05, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Here's a linkable modern-day exterior picture of the old WB (now KTLA) studio building on Sunset: [2] --RBBrittain 06:12, 3 March 2007 (UTC)