AI-generated images on this site

One image on this site was made with an AI image generator: the theatre decor down both edges of every page, with its curtains, a gilded pillar carrying a lamp, and rows of seat backs. It looks like a photograph of a real picture palace, and no such room was photographed, so it is labelled wherever it appears.

How the decor is labelled

Each decor panel carries a small “AI” mark in its top corner. Screen readers hear “AI-generated image: theatre curtains and a lamp pillar”. Every file of the image, in every size and format, also carries the IPTC marker “trainedAlgorithmicMedia”, the standard machine-readable statement that a picture was generated. Provenance markings in images are never altered or removed.

Where every other image comes from

Studio films

The poster for each of the 127 films published on YouTube comes from the thumbnail the rights holder published with its own upload: a portrait section of it chosen to leave out the lettering, since the card prints the title anyway, or the whole thumbnail on a dark mount where no such section exists.

Public-domain films

The poster for each of the 75 Internet Archive films is a frame from the film itself, taken from an Internet Archive copy of that film. For five films whose first copy was later removed from the Archive, the frame comes from that earlier copy and the page now links a replacement copy of the same film.

The home screen

The picture on the cinema screen of the home page is a frame from Too Late for Tears (1949), a public-domain film.

Sharing image

The image shown when a page is shared is that same frame with the site’s name. It contains no AI-generated element.

Site mark

The wordmark and the small icon in the browser tab are drawn as vector lettering.

Nothing here edits a film frame or a studio poster with an AI tool, and nothing is painted in or removed: a poster is a resized section of the original, or the original whole on a plain mount.