Template:Did you know nominations/London to Brighton in Four Minutes

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 00:52, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

London to Brighton in Four Minutes

Title card of 1953 film
Title card of 1953 film
  • ... that every thirty years the BBC has produced a new version of their 1953 film London to Brighton in Four Minutes (title card pictured)? Source: Numerous, possibly the most succinct from BBC News: "The BBC filmed that journey back in 1953 … Thirty years later it repeated the exercise, observing the changes in the intervening time. Now I've retraced that trip, 60 years on. ...to compare the three journeys through the magic of time-lapse filming."[1]
  • ALT1:... that every thirty years the BBC has produced a new version of London to Brighton in Four Minutes (title card pictured), their 1953 time-lapse film of a rail journey? Source: as above.

Created by Thincat (talk). Self-nominated at 10:25, 17 August 2019 (UTC).

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Thank you very much for looking at this. I uploaded to image to Commons on the basis that it is below the level of originality in both the US and UK. Commons:Threshold of originality. If it is OK in the US but not UK it could be uploaded here. Thincat (talk) 07:49, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
Template:Ping That sounds logical. I'm going to Symbol confirmed.svg OK it and leave it up to the admin whether to include the picture or not considering Template:U's argument since that's the only outstanding issue. I'll add that watching these films was not a bad way to spend 15 minutes Face-smile.svg --DaßWölf 12:32, 21 August 2019 (UTC)