File:Half Nelson (2006) - Casio DBC150B-1DF scene.jpg

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Description: Production/publicity still from Half Nelson (2006): Ryan Gosling, as teacher Dan Dunne, sits on a student desk in front of a green chalkboard reading "What ___ History?" with two out-of-focus students visible in the foreground on either side, showing the full classroom setting. His hands are clasped in his lap; the Casio DBC150B-1DF is clearly visible on his left wrist. This is the same production moment as the previous tightly cropped 1117x1117 square used on the page -- identical chalkboard text, tie, pose, and hand position -- but restores the full native 16:9 classroom frame instead of a tight square crop, confirmed to have been an artificially tight crop of this wider shot rather than a genuine square source composition. Source URL: https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/49IHJiO6oErX8q8Nqp52zYcek8O.jpg Source publisher: THINKFilm (U.S. theatrical distributor of Half Nelson, 2006; matches this page's existing scene_credit). This exact frame is hosted via The Movie Database (TMDB) backdrop library (page: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/7859-half-nelson/images/backdrops, uploaded by TMDB contributor "flitze"); TMDB is a repost host, not the rights holder. Retrieved: 2026-08-15 License or editorial purpose: Editorial identification fair use -- scene still used to document the cataloged watch appearance. Modifications: TMDB lists this backdrop as 3840x2160, but it is an artificial upscale, not a genuine 4K source: a downscale/upscale differential test (Lanczos downsample to 1920x1080, then bicubic upsample back to 3840x2160) showed negligible residual detail versus the hosted file, a mean absolute per-channel difference of ~0.55/255, indicating no real information beyond 1920x1080. This is consistent with the film's only known HD master being a 1080p Blu-ray transfer (Axiom Films, 2015, 1.85:1); no 4K restoration of this 2006 Super 16mm production is known to exist. To avoid presenting invented upscaled pixels as higher-resolution evidence, the delivered file was downscaled from the sourced 3840x2160 TMDB copy to 1920x1080 (its genuine detail ceiling) using Lanczos resampling and saved as JPEG (quality 95, 2.07 MP). No cropping was applied since the source frame has no encoded black bars, and no watermark removal was needed. Related page: Half Nelson (2006)