Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dempsey, Houdini, Leonard

Dempsey, Houdini, Leonard

 * Reason:I find this just a delightful picture. The heavyweight boxing champion (Jack Dempsey) mock punching Harry Houdini, who is held back back by the lightweight boxing champion (Benny Leonard. Part of a series including pictures of the same men with Commissioner Daly, Jack Kearns, Billy Gibson. Date unknown, but looks to be early 1920s -- any additional details more than welcome.
 * Restored version of file:Jack Dempsey, Harry Houdini and Benny Leonard.jpg, dust and scratches and scratched-in legend removed, global and local contrast adjusted, cropped. The image is quite heavily vignetted; I think this actually adds to the image so I did not try to remove the vignette -- only reduced the blown out highlights in the center of the image.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mvuijlst (talk • contribs) 21:32, 21 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Articles this image appears in:Jack Dempsey, Harry Houdini, Benny Leonard
 * Creator:Unknown photographer (Bain News Service, publisher). Restored by Michel Vuijlsteke


 * Support as nominator --Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 21:28, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Reluctant support If it weren't for the fact that this is such an old image I'd immediately oppose since the quality is awful but considering the time period and the technology available (not to mention the age of the image itself) not to mention the encyclopedic value this definitely meets my standards. Cat-five - talk 23:20, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Publicity photo with virtually zero EV. Image page doesn't even say what it's publicising. I've read a Houdini biography and Dempsey was never mentioned; for someone that famous that indicates how much they had to do with each other. The only reason any of them are mentioned in the other's articles is through this image that you've just added, and I question its value to any of them. --jjron (talk) 12:32, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose without more information on context It could have EV if the date, location, and context was known.  Houdini was known for taking punches, and this looks like it was shot at a military base.  So, more information?  Could a news archives search of a data base pull this image and give us a context?  --KP Botany (talk) 20:12, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, I have no further information about the setting. Shame. Any ideas where to go to for more, anyone? -- Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 12:43, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

MER-C 02:43, 28 March 2009 (UTC)