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Ian Schrager.
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The photographs, film excerpts and music behind our three reels. These records identify creators, original source pages and the licenses recorded with the source material. Credits are public; no newsletter signup is needed to read them.
REEL 1
The IOU
Music & sound
“I Can Feel it Coming” by Kevin MacLeod · CC BY 4.0. Music is edited and mixed under narration.
Sound effects: Mixkit and Pixabay.
Photography & footage · open-license records
| Material | Credit & source | License record |
|---|---|---|
| Colour FBI training film | Federal Bureau of Investigation, training film "Illegal Gambling: Numbers, Dice, Bookmaking" (National Archives ARC 12111, ca. 1960-1969), via Internet Archive; cut from 0:44-1:00 Source ↗ | Public Domain Mark 1.0 (the Internet Archive item's licence field); the National Archives catalog entry reads "Restricted - Possibly" for copyright |
| Colour 1989 Federal Reserve Bank tour film | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, "Where the Bankers Bank" (1989), via Internet Archive FedFlix; cut from 3:28-3:43 Source ↗ | Public Domain (item metadata licenseurl: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/) |
| Colour 1989 Federal Reserve Bank tour film | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, "Where the Bankers Bank" (1989), via Internet Archive FedFlix; cut from 4:27-4:47 Source ↗ | Public Domain (item metadata licenseurl: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/) |
| Colour FBI training film, night | Federal Bureau of Investigation, training film "Illegal Gambling: Numbers, Dice, Bookmaking" (National Archives ARC 12111, ca. 1960-1969), via Internet Archive; cut from 10:42-10:54 Source ↗ | Public Domain Mark 1.0 (the Internet Archive item's licence field); the National Archives catalog entry reads "Restricted - Possibly" for copyright |
| Colour 1974 law-enforcement training film | "Forcible Entry: Knock and Notice" (1974), law-enforcement training film in the FBI motion-picture records, National Archives ARC 12139, via Internet Archive; cut from 15:54-16:10 Source ↗ | Public Domain Mark 1.0 (the Internet Archive item's licence field); the National Archives catalog entry gives the use restriction as "Undetermined" |
| Black and white 1940 film | Prelinger Archives / Internet Archive; "Boy in Court" (Willard Pictures for the National Probation and Parole Association, 1940), cut from 2:27-2:38 Source ↗ | Public Domain (item metadata licenseurl: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/) |
| A bank's drive-in teller windows, 1973 | Declan Haun, for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's DOCUMERICA program; U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA 546432), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | Public domain |
| Stacks of $100 bills | Maklay62 (Pixabay, via Commons) Source ↗ | CC0 |
| The federal courthouse at Foley Square, Manhattan | Carol M. Highsmith (photographer), Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-highsm-55469; photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration Source ↗ | No known restrictions on publication. |
| Ian Schrager, cut out (C2 Montréal, 2012) | C2 Montréal (Flickr: c2mtl); the Flickr title credits the photo to Karel Chladek (© Karel Chladek - C2-MTL) Source ↗ | CC BY 2.0 |
| The Delano, Miami Beach | Gzzz (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The London EDITION | Philafrenzy (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source 1 ↗ · Source 2 ↗ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The Miami Beach EDITION | P. Hughes (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY 4.0 |
| The Hudson Hotel, New York | Jim.henderson (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY 3.0 |
| A promissory note, Boston, 1785 | U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA 192919; series John F. Kennedy Personal Papers: Historical Documents Collection), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | Public Domain |
| The Studio 54 logo | Studio 49 (author per the file page; vector made from the Brands of the World EPS), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | Public domain |
| The Mondrian, West Hollywood | Minnaert (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| President Obama leaving the Oval Office, 20 January 2017 | Official White House Photo by Pete Souza (photograph P012017PS-0073), Records of the White House Photo Office (Obama Administration), Barack Obama Presidential Library, National Archives and Records Administration, NAID 167966145 Source ↗ | Public Domain, Free of Known Copyright Restrictions |
| The Paramount Hotel, West 46th Street | Epicgenius (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| PUBLIC, 215 Chrystie Street, New York | Tdorante10 (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The Royalton, 44 West 44th Street | Epicgenius (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source 1 ↗ · Source 2 ↗ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The Sanderson, London | Rafał Drewnowski (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Frank Sinatra, about 1957 | Macfadden Publications, New York (TV-Radio Mirror, 1957; scan on the Internet Archive, radiotvmir00mac page 28), via Wikimedia Commons; photographer not named Source ↗ | Public domain |
| St Martins Lane, London | Doyle of London (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The Studio 54 building at 254 West 54th Street, 2019 | Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA (Studio 54), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY 2.0 |
| The Studio 54 building, 2026 | Oleg Yunakov (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Times Square at night, 1973 | Edmund L. Mitchell (photographer), Edmund L. Mitchell Collection, Boston Public Library via Digital Commonwealth (gift of Richard and Kellie Gutman, 2017); copy on Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | No known copyright restrictions. |
| Brass stanchions and red velvet ropes | W.carter (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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Photography & footage · other credited sources
| Material | Credit & source | License record |
|---|---|---|
| Colour 1962 stock footage, night | Prelinger Archives / Internet Archive; "Vista Stock Shots: Entertainment" (San Francisco stock footage, 1962), cut from 9:55-10:07 Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Colour 1962 stock footage, night | Prelinger Archives / Internet Archive; "Vista Stock Shots: Entertainment" (San Francisco stock footage, 1962), cut from 7:45-7:58 Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Black and white 1956 film | Prelinger Archives / Internet Archive; "Our Prisons" (1956, made for Kansas Governor F. Hall), cut from 5:33-5:45 Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Colour 1966 home movie, daylight, not the 1980s | Prelinger Archives home movies / Internet Archive; "Home movie: 098414: 1966 Times Square & around New York", cut from 1:56-2:07 Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Black and white silent 1940s street film | Prelinger Archives / Internet Archive; "Park Avenue" (unidentified 1940s silent film of Park Avenue, New York), cut from 1:01-1:17 Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Ian Schrager, cut out (2026) | Daniel Prakopcyk for The Hollywood Reporter (caption: Ian Schrager, Photographed by Daniel Prakopcyk) Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| The crowd outside Studio 54 in the club years | Ian Schrager Company website, home page image file studio54-1576268000124.jpg; no photographer or date is given on the page Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager at the doors of Studio 54, 14 December 1978 | Photofest (figure credit on the NYLON page: Photo courtesy of Photofest; Zeitgeist Films press caption: Credit: Photofest), as published by NYLON Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| The New York EDITION's clock tower | EDITION Hotels (hotel's own photograph, file 250611_EDT_ClockExt_01_horizontal.jpg on editionhotels.com; no photographer credited) Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| The former Morgans Hotel building at its corner, 2020 | CityRealty (caption on the page: 237 Madison Avenue in center (CItyRealty)), in the CityRealty feature Morgans Hotel: World's first boutique hotel by Ian Schrager awaits reopening as luxury micro-apartments, 7 May 2020 Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| A Morgans Hotel room by Andrée Putman | Dezeen, article First boutique hotel Morgans closes to become micro condos (28 June 2017); the page gives the image no credit line Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| The former Morgans Hotel building, 237 Madison Avenue, 2020 | CityRealty, one of four unnumbered gallery photographs on the same CityRealty feature page (the page prints no credit under the gallery; the lead photograph is credited CityRealty) Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Steve Rubell with Michael Jackson in the Studio 54 DJ booth | No photographer credit on the W Magazine slide (source file name reads Turiak_MJ-Steve-HR_080916); the gallery shows pictures from the Rizzoli book Studio 54, edited by Ian Schrager Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Steve Rubell with Diana Ross, about 1979 | Photo by Oscar Abolafia/TPLP/Getty Images (credit on slide 5 of 12 of the Dazed gallery Studio 54: Photos of New York's OG celebrity coke den) Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Ian Schrager at Studio 54, 1978 | Mary DiBiase/NY Daily News via Getty Images (credit line under the photo on the Hollywood Reporter page; Getty ID 496715190) Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Ian Schrager in 2026 | Luca Bertea for Interview Magazine (page byline: Photographed by Luca Bertea, May 28, 2026) Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
Additional clips
| Material | Credit & source | License record |
|---|---|---|
| The Untouchables (1987), 1.9 seconds cut, under "V1: that Steve brags to a reporter that only the Mafia makes more money" · Film reactions | https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xuv9jq Source ↗ | Studio film, not licensed |
| The Untouchables (1987), 2.4 seconds cut, under "V1: and they find garbage bags of cash hidden in the ceiling" · Film reactions | https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xuv9jq Source ↗ | Studio film, not licensed |
| The Shawshank Redemption (1994), 1.9 seconds cut, under "V1: and in 1980 they go to prison" · Film reactions | https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5h9edz Source ↗ | Studio film, not licensed |
| Rocky (1976), 2.8 seconds cut, under "V1: They take it." · Film reactions | https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7yyez0 Source ↗ | Studio film, not licensed |
REEL 2
The boutique hotel
Music & sound
“Betrayal” by Lee Rosevere · CC BY 4.0. Music is edited and mixed under narration.
Sound effects: Mixkit and Pixabay.
Photography & footage · open-license records
| Material | Credit & source | License record |
|---|---|---|
| Colour FBI training film | Federal Bureau of Investigation, training film "Illegal Gambling: Numbers, Dice, Bookmaking" (National Archives ARC 12111, ca. 1960-1969), via Internet Archive; cut from 0:44-1:00 Source ↗ | Public Domain Mark 1.0 (the Internet Archive item's licence field); the National Archives catalog entry reads "Restricted - Possibly" for copyright |
| Black and white 1940 film | Prelinger Archives / Internet Archive; "Boy in Court" (Willard Pictures for the National Probation and Parole Association, 1940), cut from 2:27-2:38 Source ↗ | Public Domain (item metadata licenseurl: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/) |
| A small clothes boutique | Mutney (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC0 |
| A boutique on a Paris street | Dacuerdo (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC0 |
| Stacks of $100 bills | Maklay62 (Pixabay, via Commons) Source ↗ | CC0 |
| The federal courthouse at Foley Square, Manhattan | Carol M. Highsmith (photographer), Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-highsm-55469; photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration Source ↗ | No known restrictions on publication. |
| Ian Schrager, cut out (C2 Montréal, 2012) | C2 Montréal (Flickr: c2mtl); the Flickr title credits the photo to Karel Chladek (© Karel Chladek - C2-MTL) Source ↗ | CC BY 2.0 |
| The Delano, Miami Beach | Gzzz (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A mirror ball | Santeri Viinamaki (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The London EDITION, Berners Street | Philafrenzy (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source 1 ↗ · Source 2 ↗ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The London EDITION | Philafrenzy (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source 1 ↗ · Source 2 ↗ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The Miami Beach EDITION | P. Hughes (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY 4.0 |
| 20 Times Square, home of The Times Square EDITION | 83136374@N05 (the Commons author field, a Flickr user id; the file is filed under 2026 New York City photographs by ajay suresh), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY 4.0 |
| City of Chicago liquor licences, 1935 | Stephen Hogan from Chicago, United States (Flickr photo 27232812156), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY 2.0 |
| The Marriott International logo | Marriott International (author per the file page: Marriott International, www.marriott.com), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | Public domain |
| The Studio 54 logo | Studio 49 (author per the file page; vector made from the Brands of the World EPS), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | Public domain |
| Macy's Herald Square, 1984 | TedQuackenbush (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| A Miami Beach hotel, 1990 | John Margolies (photographer), John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-MA05-9285 Source ↗ | No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see "John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive - Rights and Restrictions Information" https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/723_marg.html |
| The Paramount Hotel, West 46th Street | Epicgenius (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Jail cell bars | Rhododendrites (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The Royalton, 44 West 44th Street | Epicgenius (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source 1 ↗ · Source 2 ↗ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Empty shop shelves | Phillip Pessar (Flickr: southbeachcars, https://www.flickr.com/photos/southbeachcars/53077653230/), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY 2.0 |
| The Studio 54 building at 254 West 54th Street, 2019 | Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA (Studio 54), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY 2.0 |
| Times Square at night, 1973 | Edmund L. Mitchell (photographer), Edmund L. Mitchell Collection, Boston Public Library via Digital Commonwealth (gift of Richard and Kellie Gutman, 2017); copy on Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | No known copyright restrictions. |
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Photography & footage · other credited sources
| Material | Credit & source | License record |
|---|---|---|
| Colour 1962 stock footage, night | Prelinger Archives / Internet Archive; "Vista Stock Shots: Entertainment" (San Francisco stock footage, 1962), cut from 9:55-10:07 Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Black and white 1956 film | Prelinger Archives / Internet Archive; "Our Prisons" (1956, made for Kansas Governor F. Hall), cut from 5:33-5:45 Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Black and white silent 1940s street film | Prelinger Archives / Internet Archive; "Park Avenue" (unidentified 1940s silent film of Park Avenue, New York), cut from 1:01-1:17 Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Colour 1965 travelogue shot from a moving car on Miami Beach | Prelinger Archives / Internet Archive; "Florida 1965" (Henry Charles Fleischer travelogue), cut from 6:55-7:12 Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Ian Schrager, cut out (2026) | Daniel Prakopcyk for The Hollywood Reporter (caption: Ian Schrager, Photographed by Daniel Prakopcyk) Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| The crowd outside Studio 54 in the club years | Ian Schrager Company website, home page image file studio54-1576268000124.jpg; no photographer or date is given on the page Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager at the doors of Studio 54, 14 December 1978 | Photofest (figure credit on the NYLON page: Photo courtesy of Photofest; Zeitgeist Films press caption: Credit: Photofest), as published by NYLON Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| The New York EDITION's clock tower | EDITION Hotels (hotel's own photograph, file 250611_EDT_ClockExt_01_horizontal.jpg on editionhotels.com; no photographer credited) Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| The EDITION logo | EDITION Hotels (file edition-text-logo-black.png in the theme folder of editionhotels.com); EDITION is a Marriott International brand Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| The former Morgans Hotel building at its corner, 2020 | CityRealty (caption on the page: 237 Madison Avenue in center (CItyRealty)), in the CityRealty feature Morgans Hotel: World's first boutique hotel by Ian Schrager awaits reopening as luxury micro-apartments, 7 May 2020 Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| A Morgans Hotel room by Andrée Putman | Dezeen, article First boutique hotel Morgans closes to become micro condos (28 June 2017); the page gives the image no credit line Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| The former Morgans Hotel building, 237 Madison Avenue, 2020 | CityRealty, one of four unnumbered gallery photographs on the same CityRealty feature page (the page prints no credit under the gallery; the lead photograph is credited CityRealty) Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Steve Rubell, cut out (1978) | Photofest (figure credit on the NYLON page: Photo courtesy of Photofest; Zeitgeist Films press caption: Credit: Photofest), as published by NYLON Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Steve Rubell, cut out (about 1979) | Photo by Oscar Abolafia/TPLP/Getty Images (credit on slide 5 of 12 of the Dazed gallery Studio 54: Photos of New York's OG celebrity coke den) Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| The Studio 54 dance floor, 1978 | Sonia Moskowitz / Getty Images (Getty Images 579190712), as published by Grazia USA in How Studio 54 Came Crashing Down: Inside the Final Days (8 September 2022) Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Ian Schrager, cut out (1978) | Photofest (figure credit on the NYLON page: Photo courtesy of Photofest; Zeitgeist Films press caption: Credit: Photofest), as published by NYLON Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Ian Schrager, cut out for a scene (2026) | Daniel Prakopcyk for The Hollywood Reporter (caption: Ian Schrager, Photographed by Daniel Prakopcyk) Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| The Waikiki EDITION, 2010 | Cindy Ellen Russell / Honolulu Star-Advertiser (crussell@staradvertiser.com, the credit printed on the page), in the article Waikiki Edition opens by Allison Schaefers, 5 October 2010 Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
REEL 3
The partnership
Music & sound
“Puzzle Pieces” by Lee Rosevere · CC BY 3.0. Music is edited and mixed under narration.
Sound effects: Mixkit and Pixabay.
Photography & footage · open-license records
| Material | Credit & source | License record |
|---|---|---|
| Colour FBI training film | Federal Bureau of Investigation, training film "Illegal Gambling: Numbers, Dice, Bookmaking" (National Archives ARC 12111, ca. 1960-1969), via Internet Archive; cut from 0:44-1:00 Source ↗ | Public Domain Mark 1.0 (the Internet Archive item's licence field); the National Archives catalog entry reads "Restricted - Possibly" for copyright |
| Colour 1989 Federal Reserve Bank tour film | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, "Where the Bankers Bank" (1989), via Internet Archive FedFlix; cut from 3:28-3:43 Source ↗ | Public Domain (item metadata licenseurl: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/) |
| Colour FBI training film, night | Federal Bureau of Investigation, training film "Illegal Gambling: Numbers, Dice, Bookmaking" (National Archives ARC 12111, ca. 1960-1969), via Internet Archive; cut from 10:42-10:54 Source ↗ | Public Domain Mark 1.0 (the Internet Archive item's licence field); the National Archives catalog entry reads "Restricted - Possibly" for copyright |
| Colour 1974 law-enforcement training film | "Forcible Entry: Knock and Notice" (1974), law-enforcement training film in the FBI motion-picture records, National Archives ARC 12139, via Internet Archive; cut from 15:54-16:10 Source ↗ | Public Domain Mark 1.0 (the Internet Archive item's licence field); the National Archives catalog entry gives the use restriction as "Undetermined" |
| Black and white 1940 film | Prelinger Archives / Internet Archive; "Boy in Court" (Willard Pictures for the National Probation and Parole Association, 1940), cut from 2:27-2:38 Source ↗ | Public Domain (item metadata licenseurl: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/) |
| Colour documentary footage of a state prison, ca. 1970, green-tinted print | National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Bureau of Prisons (local identifier 129-BOP-29, ARC 567645), "Shotgun Joe, ca. 1970" (filmed at the Connecticut Correctional Institution, Cheshire), via Internet Archive FedFlix; cut from 13:00-13:16 Source ↗ | CC0 1.0 (licenseurl http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ on the Internet Archive item) |
| Stacks of $100 bills | Maklay62 (Pixabay, via Commons) Source ↗ | CC0 |
| The federal courthouse at Foley Square, Manhattan | Carol M. Highsmith (photographer), Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-highsm-55469; photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration Source ↗ | No known restrictions on publication. |
| Ian Schrager, cut out (C2 Montréal, 2012) | C2 Montréal (Flickr: c2mtl); the Flickr title credits the photo to Karel Chladek (© Karel Chladek - C2-MTL) Source ↗ | CC BY 2.0 |
| The Studio 54 logo | Studio 49 (author per the file page; vector made from the Brands of the World EPS), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | Public domain |
| President Obama leaving the Oval Office, 20 January 2017 | Official White House Photo by Pete Souza (photograph P012017PS-0073), Records of the White House Photo Office (Obama Administration), Barack Obama Presidential Library, National Archives and Records Administration, NAID 167966145 Source ↗ | Public Domain, Free of Known Copyright Restrictions |
| The Paramount Hotel lobby | Nikolas Koenig (Paramount Hotel), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| The Paramount Hotel, West 46th Street | Epicgenius (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The entrance of PUBLIC, New York | Eden, Janine and Jim (Flickr: edenpictures), via Flickr Source ↗ | CC BY 2.0 |
| PUBLIC, 215 Chrystie Street, New York | Tdorante10 (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The Royalton, 44 West 44th Street | Epicgenius (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source 1 ↗ · Source 2 ↗ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The Studio 54 building at 254 West 54th Street, 2019 | Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA (Studio 54), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY 2.0 |
| The Studio 54 building, 2026 | Oleg Yunakov (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The Hall of Languages from the east, 1962 | Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, HABS NY,34-SYRA,25B--3 (survey HABS NY-5446, whose record names Jack E. Boucher as photographer) Source ↗ | No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted |
| The Hall of Languages, Syracuse University, 1962 | Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, HABS NY,34-SYRA,25B--1 (survey HABS NY-5446, whose record names Jack E. Boucher as photographer) Source ↗ | No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted |
| Brass stanchions and red velvet ropes | W.carter (own work), via Wikimedia Commons Source ↗ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Photography & footage · other credited sources
| Material | Credit & source | License record |
|---|---|---|
| Ian Schrager, cut out (2026) | Daniel Prakopcyk for The Hollywood Reporter (caption: Ian Schrager, Photographed by Daniel Prakopcyk) Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| The crowd outside Studio 54 in the club years | Ian Schrager Company website, home page image file studio54-1576268000124.jpg; no photographer or date is given on the page Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager at the doors of Studio 54, 14 December 1978 | Photofest (figure credit on the NYLON page: Photo courtesy of Photofest; Zeitgeist Films press caption: Credit: Photofest), as published by NYLON Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| The former Morgans Hotel building, 237 Madison Avenue, 2020 | CityRealty, one of four unnumbered gallery photographs on the same CityRealty feature page (the page prints no credit under the gallery; the lead photograph is credited CityRealty) Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Steve Rubell with Michael Jackson in the Studio 54 DJ booth | No photographer credit on the W Magazine slide (source file name reads Turiak_MJ-Steve-HR_080916); the gallery shows pictures from the Rizzoli book Studio 54, edited by Ian Schrager Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Steve Rubell with Diana Ross, about 1979 | Photo by Oscar Abolafia/TPLP/Getty Images (credit on slide 5 of 12 of the Dazed gallery Studio 54: Photos of New York's OG celebrity coke den) Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Guests on a Studio 54 banquette, 1978 | Sonia Moskowitz / Getty Images (Getty Images 579116106), as published by Grazia USA in How Studio 54 Came Crashing Down: Inside the Final Days (8 September 2022) Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| The Studio 54 dance floor, 1978 | Sonia Moskowitz / Getty Images (Getty Images 579190712), as published by Grazia USA in How Studio 54 Came Crashing Down: Inside the Final Days (8 September 2022) Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Ian Schrager at Studio 54, 1978 | Mary DiBiase/NY Daily News via Getty Images (credit line under the photo on the Hollywood Reporter page; Getty ID 496715190) Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Ian Schrager in 2026 | Luca Bertea for Interview Magazine (page byline: Photographed by Luca Bertea, May 28, 2026) Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
| Ian Schrager, 2026 | Daniel Prakopcyk for The Hollywood Reporter (caption: Ian Schrager, Photographed by Daniel Prakopcyk) Source ↗ | No open license recorded |
Additional clips
| Material | Credit & source | License record |
|---|---|---|
| Schrager on Office Of, February 2026 (b/med1, med2, cu1, cu2) · His own words | TikTok, @officeof clips of 4 and 6 February 2026 Source 1 ↗ · Source 2 ↗ · Source 3 ↗ · Source 4 ↗ | Programme clip, not licensed |
| Capture of a web page with "His first client: Steve Rubell." marked · His own words | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/1996/03/studio-54-nightclub-new-york-city Source ↗ | Screenshot of a published page |
| Capture of a web page with "Rubell and Schrager were jailed Feb. 4, 1980" marked · His own words | https://web.archive.org/web/20251207012452/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/01/31/Two-from-Studio-54-paroled-from-jail/7896349765200/ Source ↗ | Screenshot of a published page |
| Capture of a web page with "The Paramount was under construction when Rubell died, at age 45" marked · His own words | https://www.vanityfair.com/news/1996/03/studio-54-nightclub-new-york-city Source ↗ | Screenshot of a published page |
| Capture of a web page with "Ian Schrager" marked · His own words | https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-barack-h-obama-2009-2017 Source ↗ | Screenshot of a published page |
Still images are cropped, resized or isolated from their backgrounds for the vertical edit; footage and music are excerpted, rearranged and mixed with narration, captions and other material. Source credits identify the original works. Where no open license is recorded, attribution does not represent permission or a transfer of rights. An archive’s public-domain label is reported alongside any conflicting rights advisory in its original record.
Article photography has separate, image-specific credits in the full story’s public photo credits.