Remove 'play' symbol from video thumbnail generated by Google Photos API - google-api-js-client

Question

Using the Google Photos API I would like to display the thumbnails associated with videos without the play icon overlaying the image.
This is what it looks like. How can I remove the white play arrow?
I know from the documentation that "to access the thumbnail of the video use any of the image base url parameters.":
https://developers.google.com/photos/library/guides/access-media-items
To get a list of files, I use the Google Javascript API gapi
gapi.client.request({
'path': 'https://photoslibrary.googleapis.com/v1/mediaItems:search',
'method': 'POST',
'body': { "filters": { "mediaTypeFilter": { "mediaTypes": ["VIDEO"] } } }
}).then(displayTheResults);
This gives me results like this:
{
"result": {
"mediaItems": [
{
"id": "iiiiiiiiiiiiii",
"productUrl": "https://photos.google.com/lr/photo/iiiiiiiiiiii",
"baseUrl": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/lr/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
"mimeType": "video/mp4",
"mediaMetadata": {
"creationTime": "2021-02-24T11:23:26Z",
"width": "1920",
"height": "1080",
"video": {
"fps": 29.609994326070606,
"status": "READY"
}
},
"filename": "VID_1111111111.mp4"
}
....
]
},
"body": { .... },
"headers": { ... },
"status": 200,
"statusText": null
}
To generate the thumbnail my base-url becomes:
var videoThumbnail = baseUrl + "=w300-h200-c";
Is it possible to remove the big 'play' icon from the thumbnail?