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One of the most sought after cinematographers in Hollywood & twice Oscar-winner, he pioneered use of wide-angle lenses, deep focus, low-key lighting (& invented the crab dolly), helping usher in the style later known as *film noir*.

NeoDB/Eggplant.place has been updated, lots of graphical changes. But one, display of collections on Home page, not great for me.

I loved The Day The Earth Caught Fire (1961)(henceforth TDTECF): end of the world scifi, "journalism procedural" (if that's a thing) with a dollop of the kitchen sink drama realism of late 50s/early 60s UK cinema. 5 star…

I'm still learning NeoDB features & interaction/federation, seeing what happens when I try things like crossposting an article. Re a NeoDB article (NeoDB > Feed > Compose > New Article) crossposted to Mastodon On Mastodo…

You know how you can input the URL of a Mastodon post from another instance into your own instance's search box to see the post displayed on your own instance (& thus interact with it: favourite, boost, reply etc)? #TIL you can do that with a Mastodon post on #NeoDB . I don't know why I hadn't realized or tried this earlier!

Re the NeoDB collection for the #MondayActionMovie watch party: https://eggplant.place/collection/3dbcisTUvJzKp2CDrx7XiC Added another year of films (2024), based on @SesameSquirrel@mastodon.social 's watch party calend…

An article with #ReMonsterdon start time images so I can link to them from elsewhere.

I kept putting more & more info in the description section of the #Monsterdon watch party collection here on NeoDB / Eggplant.place, then cut a lot because it was getting super long. But maybe I went too far. So here's a…