In 2024, a Reddit user named Connor Plunkett used a facial recognition tool to try and identify the man at the front of the crowd. It returned a match: Santos Casani, a famous ballroom dancer in 1920s London.

The photo, it turns out, was taken at a Valentine’s Day dance on February 14, 1921, in the Empress Ballroom at the Royal Palace Hotel in London.

“Others said he was Edmund Platt, governor of the Federal Reserve in 1921, and the people around him were bankers, so the photo was proof that Kubrick secretly wanted to expose the financial elite,” he recalled.

Some people read way too deep into stuff, trying to find intention when there is just dumb chance

Oops, sorry Blaze, didn’t realize you had already posted a different article on the same story.