Picture credits

The small pictures in the film strip on the start page come from Wikimedia Commons: 69 small pictures, twelve of them shown at a time and in another order on every visit. 38 are photographs of film directors and actors, 14 are old film posters and film stills, 15 are photographs of places where films were shot and 2 are posters of open films. Each one was cropped and made smaller; nothing else was changed. The changed pictures of the CC BY and CC BY-SA photographs and posters are offered under the same licence as their source. The old posters and film stills are in the public domain, because their authors died more than 70 years ago or, where the author is not known, the work is more than 70 years old.

How the licences work

Anyone may use these pictures free of charge, as long as the credit stays with them. Three kinds of licence are used.

Public domain means that no copyright is left: the author died long ago, or the author is not known and the work is old, or the author gave all rights up (CC0). Such a picture needs no credit, but we name the author when we know the name.

CC BY lets you use, change and share the picture if you name the author, give the licence and say that you changed it. CC BY-SA asks the same and, in addition, that a changed picture is shared under the same licence.

Each line below names the picture, its author, its licence, with a link to the text of the licence, and its source page on Wikimedia Commons, where the full record is kept. The licence covers the picture only. A portrait does not say that the person shown knows of this site or agrees with it; this site is non-commercial research and advertises nothing.

The pictures

• nolan.webp: Christopher Nolan, photograph by Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
• gerwig.webp: Greta Gerwig, photograph by Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
• villeneuve.webp: Denis Villeneuve, photograph by Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
• blanchett.webp: Cate Blanchett, photograph by Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
• bong.webp: Bong Joon-ho, photograph by Ilya Hirschberg (Kreecher), CC BY-SA 4.0, source
• yeoh.webp: Michelle Yeoh, photograph by Lukasz Kobus / European Union, CC BY 4.0, source
• murphy.webp: Cillian Murphy, photograph by Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
• moon.webp: picture from the film A Trip to the Moon (1902) by Georges Méliès, public domain, source
• metropolis.webp: poster for the film Metropolis (1927) by Boris Bilinsky, public domain, source
• caligari.webp: poster for the film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) by Erich Ludwig Stahl and Otto Arpke, public domain, source
• moon-poster.webp: drawing for a poster of the film A Trip to the Moon (1902) by Georges Méliès, public domain, source
• vampires.webp: poster for the film Les Vampires (1915) by Francisco Tamagno, public domain, source
• scorsese.webp: Martin Scorsese, photograph by Montclair Film, CC BY 2.0, source
• tarantino.webp: Quentin Tarantino, photograph by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
• streep.webp: Meryl Streep, photograph by Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, source
• hanks.webp: Tom Hanks, photograph by Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, source
• mcdormand.webp: Frances McDormand, photograph by Library of Congress Life, CC0 1.0 (a public domain dedication), source
• davis.webp: Viola Davis, photograph by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
• daylewis.webp: Daniel Day-Lewis, photograph by Jürgen Fauth (flickr user muckster), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
• phoenix.webp: Joaquin Phoenix, photograph by Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
• zhao.webp: Chloé Zhao, photograph by Vegafi, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
• park.webp: Park Chan-wook, photograph by Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, source
• deltoro.webp: Guillermo del Toro, photograph by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
• scott.webp: Ridley Scott, photograph by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
• hardy.webp: Tom Hardy, photograph by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
• huppert.webp: Isabelle Huppert, photograph by Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
• herzog.webp: Werner Herzog, photograph by Siebbi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
• wenders.webp: Wim Wenders, photograph by Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
• binoche.webp: Juliette Binoche, photograph by Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
• judex.webp: poster for the film Judex (1916) by Leonetto Cappiello, public domain, source
• inferno.webp: poster for the film L'Inferno (1911) author not known, public domain, source
• hamlet.webp: poster for the film Hamlet (1921) by Franz A. Peffer, public domain, source
• golem.webp: poster for the film The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920) by Hans Poelzig, public domain, source
• nosferatu.webp: picture from the film Nosferatu (1922), Max Schreck as Count Orlok, by F. W. Murnau, public domain, source
• roundhay.webp: picture from the film Roundhay Garden Scene (1888) by Louis Le Prince, public domain, source
• fantomas.webp: picture from the film Fantômas (1913) by Louis Feuillade, public domain, source
• wadi-rum.webp: Wadi Rum, a filming location of the film Dune (2021), photograph by Raya Sharbain, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
• matera.webp: Matera, a filming location of the film No Time to Die (2021), photograph by Idéfix, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
• joker-stairs.webp: the Joker stairs, the site of a scene of the film Joker (2019), photograph by Moviebuff1921, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
• angels-flight.webp: Angels Flight, a filming location of the film La La Land (2016), photograph by Alossix, CC BY 3.0, source
• altaussee.webp: Altaussee, a filming location of the film Spectre (2015), photograph by Svíčková, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
• catullus.webp: the Grottoes of Catullus, a filming location of the film Call Me by Your Name (2017), photograph by Agsftw, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
• fuld-hall.webp: Fuld Hall, Institute for Advanced Study, a filming location of the film Oppenheimer (2023), photograph by Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
• oslo-opera.webp: the Oslo Opera House, a filming location of the film Tenet (2020), photograph by Rafał Konieczny, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
• weymouth.webp: Weymouth harbour, a filming location of the film Dunkirk (2017), photograph by ITookSomePhotos, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
• swayambhu.webp: Swayambhunath, a filming location of the film Doctor Strange (2016), photograph by Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, source
• tears-of-steel.webp: poster for the film Tears of Steel (2012), by Blender Foundation (Project Mango), CC BY 3.0, source
• sintel.webp: poster for the film Sintel (2010), by Blender Foundation (Durian Open Movie Project), CC BY 3.0, source
• spielberg.webp: Steven Spielberg, photograph by Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
• varda.webp: Agnès Varda, photograph by Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
• anderson.webp: Wes Anderson, photograph by Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
• swinton.webp: Tilda Swinton, photograph by Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
• nyongo.webp: Lupita Nyong'o, photograph by Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
• stone.webp: Emma Stone, photograph by Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
• ronan.webp: Saoirse Ronan, photograph by Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
• mirren.webp: Helen Mirren, photograph by Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
• chaplin.webp: Charlie Chaplin, photograph by an unknown photographer, printed in the magazine Liangyou in 1927, public domain, source
• pickford.webp: Mary Pickford, photograph by Arnold Genthe (Library of Congress), CC0 1.0 (a public domain dedication), source
• garbo.webp: Greta Garbo, photograph by Arnold Genthe (Library of Congress), CC0 1.0 (a public domain dedication), source
• nielsen.webp: Asta Nielsen, photograph by Alexander Binder, public domain, source
• veidt.webp: Conrad Veidt, photograph by Alexander Binder, public domain, source
• murnau.webp: F. W. Murnau, photograph by Anny Eberth, public domain, source
• potemkin-stairs.webp: the Potemkin Stairs in Odesa, the site of a scene of the film Battleship Potemkin (1925), photograph by Oleksandr Malyon, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
• riesenrad.webp: the Wiener Riesenrad in Vienna, the site of a scene of the film The Third Man (1949), photograph by Robert F. Tobler, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
• petra.webp: the Treasury in Petra, a filming location of the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), photograph by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
• rushmore.webp: Mount Rushmore, the site of a scene of the film North by Northwest (1959), photograph by Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
• trevi.webp: the Trevi Fountain in Rome, the site of a scene of the film La Dolce Vita (1960), photograph by NikonZ7II, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
• student-prague.webp: poster for the film The Student of Prague (1913) by the artist Zajac, public domain, source
• waxworks.webp: poster for the film Waxworks (1924) by Universum Film AG (UFA), public domain, source