File:BaleMachine.jpg

Christian Bale in the movie The Machinist, after losing more than 60 pounds for the role.

This image is a screenshot from a copyrighted film, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by the studio which produced the film, and possibly also by any actors appearing in the screenshot. It is believed that the use of a limited number of low-resolution screenshots for critical commentary and discussion of the film and its contents on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.

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This image qualifies as fair use because:

• The image is a scaled down version of the original shot.
• The image is intended to represent Christian Bale in his role in the film and illustrate the sentence: "Bale lost more than 60 pounds for his role in The Machinist."
• The image is intended for educational and not commercial purposes. --Antrophica 11:34, 17 May 2006 (UTC)