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I don’t believe the gate in the painting is chained but is actually a weight and chain closure, like this one: [1]. Such gates were fairly common on farms with the weight composed of any small heavy object made of stone or old scrap iron. Thriley ( talk) 04:55, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
'Photographs of a June 2, 1929, tornado passing through Hardtner, Kansas, were the first to clearly capture a tornado's shape and likely served as visual guidance for Curry's tornado in Tornado over Kansas.' is a big claim in two respects, neither of which is cited: was it really the first photo to clearly capture the shape of a tornado, and how do you know it 'likely served' as his inspiration - was it widely published at the time? Did he mention having seen it? Or is that the author's supposition?
With regards to it being the first photo, how about the one by taken by Lucille Handberg near the town of Jasper, Minnesota, on 8 July 1927, that clearly shows the funnel of a tornado? [1] [2] Her photograph has become a classic image; [3] (I only know of this one because it's on the cover of Siouxsie and the Banshee's album Tinderbox (and apparently it had previously been used on the covers of Miles Davis' Bitches Brew (1970) and Deep Purple's Stormbringer (1974).) - if that's just one random photo I know of, might there be many more earlier ones? 109.152.244.77 ( talk) 09:34, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
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If this painting is so famous, the writers should be able to come up with more than a 24k article. This shouldn't be an FA. 70.161.8.90 ( talk) 19:33, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
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I don’t believe the gate in the painting is chained but is actually a weight and chain closure, like this one: [1]. Such gates were fairly common on farms with the weight composed of any small heavy object made of stone or old scrap iron. Thriley ( talk) 04:55, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
'Photographs of a June 2, 1929, tornado passing through Hardtner, Kansas, were the first to clearly capture a tornado's shape and likely served as visual guidance for Curry's tornado in Tornado over Kansas.' is a big claim in two respects, neither of which is cited: was it really the first photo to clearly capture the shape of a tornado, and how do you know it 'likely served' as his inspiration - was it widely published at the time? Did he mention having seen it? Or is that the author's supposition?
With regards to it being the first photo, how about the one by taken by Lucille Handberg near the town of Jasper, Minnesota, on 8 July 1927, that clearly shows the funnel of a tornado? [1] [2] Her photograph has become a classic image; [3] (I only know of this one because it's on the cover of Siouxsie and the Banshee's album Tinderbox (and apparently it had previously been used on the covers of Miles Davis' Bitches Brew (1970) and Deep Purple's Stormbringer (1974).) - if that's just one random photo I know of, might there be many more earlier ones? 109.152.244.77 ( talk) 09:34, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
References
{{
cite AV media notes}}
: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (
link)
The classic photograph of a tornado
If this painting is so famous, the writers should be able to come up with more than a 24k article. This shouldn't be an FA. 70.161.8.90 ( talk) 19:33, 14 November 2021 (UTC)