Nearly all still frames (100!) from movie 'Grand Prix'(1966) removed by IMDb last year!

Dear staff,

Over the years, probably two other contributors, and in 2022 myself, uploaded about 100 still images (i.e. screenshots) from this movie to the IMDb. As you can see in the 'mediaindex' archived by the Internet Archive in January 2023, these totalled 144 photos, which also included some behind the scenes-shots:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230116210410/https://20230116210410/www.imdb.com/title/tt0060472/mediaindex

(attached as screenshot, in case the link fails to work)

Now, to my utter dismay, IMDb apparently deleted 93 of them all at once, leaving only 51, just about 9 of which are actual frames from the movie!

I can't speak for the other contributors, but I took great pains to capture and identify a lot of bit players, many of whom aren't actors, but some of the greatest racing drivers of the era, such as Phil Hill, Graham Hill, Joakim Bonnier, Jochen Rindt, Juan Manuel Fangio, Bruce McLaren, Lorenzo Bandini, Jim Clark and Jo Siffert, and photojournalists John Bryson and Bernard Cahier, all of whom viewers may find hard to recognize, but add so much to the authentic feel of the film.

I watched the movie several times, checked out professional photographs and documentaries on the subject, and read articles, books, interviews and forums by motor sports experts, which identified a lot of the drivers.

And now I see IMDb has decided to delete all of them in one fell swoop! Why on earth?

They were all screen captures from the actual movie, so no copyright issues could be involved, and it's nowhere the case that these have been replaced with higher resolution images. Which I would have appreciated in theory if the uploader had taken the trouble of also copying the names of the actors. And of course all of these images were all okayed by the IMDb staff in the first place.

Moreover, watching Alan Whicker's BBC report on the set of the movie, I also uploaded unique shots from this, such as actor Yves Montand getting driving instructions from Phil Hill and Jim Russell, Montand chatting with Princess Gracia, and Brian Bedford having bloody make-up applied to his face. All of them have been removed too, leaving none at all.

Since I invested a lot of work in this, I request an explanation.