User talk:Gnu17

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Your question on Image talk:Reichsparteitag.jpg

At first: Sorry for answering so late, i usually hang around in the german wikipedia, so the probability of losing sight of some english pages is quite high;-) I have access to the 'DZ RPTG' (quite unusual abbreviation, i had to think several times about its meaning), since it is a public museum and i live in Nurembergs neighbour town Fürth. Please correct me if misunderstood your intention: You want some better images of some Riefenstahl-Pictures? Well, I do not know, if it is allowed to take photos inside the Museum. If it is allowed, the next problem arises: The pictures in the exhibition are behind glass, so i cannot use a flashlight but a tripod...you see, it's a quite elaborate procedure. It would be easier to make a good scan from a printed version of the pictures. I could provide you with some of them, but i am really not certain about the copyright-implications if you intend to use them inside wikipedia. I'll have a look on your discussion-page, so i should see if i got you right or totally wrong. Bye, --Gnu17 10:04, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Es tut mir leid. I did not know you only speak a little English. Yes, you did understand my question. This page has two images, Image:Leni Riefenstahl editing Triumph of the Will.gif and Image:TriumphPremier.jpg. For these two, the quality and size are not very good. If you have better versions of them, I would really like it. However, I understand if there are copyright problems. Even better, I would like it if you could help me determine the copyright status of these two images, as well as Image:Triumph018.jpg. Vielen Danken. Palm_Dogg 15:20, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually i used to think that my english is better than only 'a little'...or both my mother (a former english-teacher) and a former colleague (an english-native-speaker) lied to me;-)) You have to admit that it did not really become clear, that you are talking about some other images... Well, never mind, let's see what we can do about the pictures. First of all, there are two weblinks which might be helpful: The (english) Homepage of the Documentation centre and the Homepage of 'Geschichte für Alle' ('History for all'), a membership association which offers (amongst others) tours around the Party Rally Ground and also publishes books about Nuremberg history apart from the 'Nice town with medieval castle'-ones. Probably both of them can offer better information about the pictures. In one of the books there is a similar picture to Image:Triumph018.jpg. It shows Riefenstahl talking to some NSDAP-Officials before the parade in the nearly same perspective, with part of the Sebaldus-church in the left background and the Beautiful Fountain (the gothic-style something behind Hitler), so i suppose it was taken shortly before Image:Triumph018.jpg by the same photographer. The book states that it was not possible to determine who actually made that photography, so probably it is the same for Image:Triumph018.jpg, sorry. One last point: In 1934 Leni Riefenstahl published a book 'Hinter den Kulissen des Reichsparteitagsfilms', some kind of Making-of of Triumph of the will, so probably this is the source of the pictures. The Documentation-Centre may be the best contact for further information, for they did a Riefenstahl-Exhibition some weeks ago (Unfortunately i missed it) and therefore have done some research on that item. I am sorry i can not give you more information, but their sources are not documented very well. The copyright is a well discussed item in german wikipedia and we are very, very careful (my opinion: much too careful) about it, so we do not even use those pictures in the according articles. I'd be glad if i have helped you a bit further, feel free to keep on asking. bye, --Gnu17 20:40, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, your English is really good! :) Thanks for the info. Palm_Dogg 18:03, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Gnu

Hello Gnu, old house, how goes it then so? -- Carbidfischer 16:11, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

<babelfish source="en" target="de">Danke für Ihre Anzeige</babelfish> --Gnu17 18:01, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Funbird. ;-) -- Carbidfischer 18:03, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]