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#TIL about James Wong Howe, Hollywood cinematographer, active 1917-1975

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*.

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Of course you can open Mastodon posts on NeoDB!

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!

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