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  <title>Discussions of group: Film Noir Photography</title>
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  <description>PLEASE DON'T POST JUST ANY B&amp;W - THERE'S OTHER GROUPS FOR THAT! Film Noir photography is in the tradition of the great film noirs. Movies are nothing more than photographs strung together. Movie Noir showed intrigue, shadow, light and dark, what is, and what might be with each frame being a single photograph, a black and white photograph if you will.</description>
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    <title>Nice Group!</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
    <author>nobody@ipernity.com (Bruce Robbins)</author>
    <description>&lt;p class="who"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ipernity.com/home/115431"&gt;Bruce Robbins&lt;/a&gt; has started a topic:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="description"&gt;This is a great idea for a group. A lot of my stuff has a film-noirish feel to it although I don't set out to take that kind of photograph. I do a lot of night photography which often falls into the category and I like to inject a bit of "drama" in other pics. I also love old black and white movies from the 1940s and '50s so this group is a natural fit for me.&lt;br /&gt;
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Bruce&lt;/div&gt;</description>
    <media:title>Nice Group!</media:title>
    <media:text type="html">&lt;p class="who"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ipernity.com/home/115431"&gt;Bruce Robbins&lt;/a&gt; has started a topic:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="description"&gt;This is a great idea for a group. A lot of my stuff has a film-noirish feel to it although I don't set out to take that kind of photograph. I do a lot of night photography which often falls into the category and I like to inject a bit of "drama" in other pics. I also love old black and white movies from the 1940s and '50s so this group is a natural fit for me.&lt;br /&gt;
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Bruce&lt;/div&gt;</media:text>
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    <title>A few links about Film Noir Photography</title>
    <link>http://www.ipernity.com/group/filmnoir/discuss/22402</link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
    <author>nobody@ipernity.com (Roland (low level user))</author>
    <description>&lt;p class="who"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ipernity.com/home/dromwerk"&gt;Roland (low level user)&lt;/a&gt; has started a topic:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="description"&gt;Here you find some usefull links to the subject of Film Noir. I also collected some links of Film Noir photo sites and Film Noir photographers. Have a look if you are interested, some of them are really awesome.. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.filmsite.org/filmnoir.html"&gt;www.filmsite.org/filmnoir.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.lafterhall.com/filmnoir.html"&gt;www.lafterhall.com/filmnoir.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.alanweissman.com/noir.a.html"&gt;www.alanweissman.com/noir.a.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://calliopethemuse.blogspot.com/2008/06/annie-leibovitz-film-noir-photography.html"&gt;calliopethemuse.blogspot.com/2008/06/annie-leibovitz-film-noir-photography.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://home.hetnet.nl/~b_van.leeuwen.1/"&gt;home.hetnet.nl/~b_van.leeuwen.1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.jaywatson.com/blog/2007/06/15/editorial-portrait-photography/"&gt;www.jaywatson.com/blog/2007/06/15/editorial-portrait-photography&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
    <media:title>A few links about Film Noir Photography</media:title>
    <media:text type="html">&lt;p class="who"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ipernity.com/home/dromwerk"&gt;Roland (low level user)&lt;/a&gt; has started a topic:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="description"&gt;Here you find some usefull links to the subject of Film Noir. I also collected some links of Film Noir photo sites and Film Noir photographers. Have a look if you are interested, some of them are really awesome.. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.filmsite.org/filmnoir.html"&gt;www.filmsite.org/filmnoir.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.lafterhall.com/filmnoir.html"&gt;www.lafterhall.com/filmnoir.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.alanweissman.com/noir.a.html"&gt;www.alanweissman.com/noir.a.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://calliopethemuse.blogspot.com/2008/06/annie-leibovitz-film-noir-photography.html"&gt;calliopethemuse.blogspot.com/2008/06/annie-leibovitz-film-noir-photography.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://home.hetnet.nl/~b_van.leeuwen.1/"&gt;home.hetnet.nl/~b_van.leeuwen.1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.jaywatson.com/blog/2007/06/15/editorial-portrait-photography/"&gt;www.jaywatson.com/blog/2007/06/15/editorial-portrait-photography&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</media:text>
    <media:credit role="author">Roland (low level user)</media:credit>
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    <title>What is Film Noir in fact?</title>
    <link>http://www.ipernity.com/group/filmnoir/discuss/18388</link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
    <author>nobody@ipernity.com (Roland (low level user))</author>
    <description>&lt;p class="who"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ipernity.com/home/dromwerk"&gt;Roland (low level user)&lt;/a&gt; has started a topic:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="description"&gt;In plain English:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Please only post photos which are; adverse, apocalyptic, baneful, black-hearted, corrupt, deleterious, dire, disastrous, dishonest, disquieting, doomful, evil, expressionist, foreboding, harmful, hurtful, ill-boding, injurious, malefic, malevolent, malign, malignant, menacing, mischievous, ominous, pernicious, perverse, poisonous, portentous, sinister, threatening, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious and woeful in nature as mentioned by Kosta Papanicolas. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In other words: &lt;br /&gt;
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ENGLISH:  Film Noir&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize moral ambiguity and sexual motivation. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography, while many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Depression.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The term film noir (French for "black film"), first applied to Hollywood movies by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, was unknown to most American film industry professionals of the era. Cinema historians and critics defined the canon of film noir in retrospect; many of those involved in the making of the classic noirs later professed to be unaware of having created a distinctive type of film.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
FRANÇAIS: Film noir&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Le film noir est plus un courant qu'un genre cinématographique. Il est apparu en 1941 (avec le Faucon maltais) aux États-Unis et fortement inspiré des nouvelles de détective de Dashiell Hammett ou Raymond Chandler, elles-même dérivées du naturalisme, un mouvement littéraire basé sur le réalisme. Il se développe cependant surtout à partir de 1944.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Bien qu'il s'agisse d'un genre typiquement américain, le terme film noir est né sous la plume d'un critique de films français, Nino Frank, par assimilation à la Série noire, une collection de romans de détective. Le film noir met généralement en scène un personnage emprisonné dans des situations qui ne sont pas de son fait et acculé à des décisions désespérées. Le meurtre ou le crime, l'infidélité, la trahison, la jalousie et le fatalisme sont des thèmes privilégiés.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Le film noir est pessimiste par essence. L'archétype du protagoniste du film noir est un détective privé de second ordre, cynique et blasé, embauché pour une enquête dont les véritables implications lui sont cachées par son commanditaire. Son enquête l'amène le plus souvent à rencontrer une femme fatale qui le manipule par avidité causant leur perte.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
La Soif du mal (Touch of Evil), tourné en 1958 par Orson Welles est généralement considéré comme le dernier film noir classique. D'autres films reprenant les canons du film noir tournés après cette date sont généralement qualifiés de néo-noirs par les Anglo-Saxons. On compte environ 250 à 400 films qui répondent aux critères de définition du film noir tournés pendant cette période de dix-sept ans.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
DEUTSCH: Film noir&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Der Begriff Film noir (frz. für „schwarzer Film“) bezeichnet ein Filmgenre oder – je nach Sichtweise – eine Stilrichtung des Films. Seine klassische Ära hatte der Film noir in den USA der Vierziger- und Fünfzigerjahre. Wurzelnd in der Zeit des ausgehenden Zweiten Weltkriegs und beeinflusst vom deutschen Expressionismus sowie von der Tradition US-amerikanischer Kriminalliteratur stellt der Film noir einen Gegensatz zum konventionellen Hollywood-Kino dar. Er ist gekennzeichnet durch eine pessimistische Weltsicht, düstere Bildgestaltung und entfremdete, verbitterte Charaktere. Sein Stil hat sich teilweise in späteren Filmen („Neo-Noir“, Cyberpunk) wie auch in anderen Medien fortgesetzt.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Herkunft: Wikipedia &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Der Begriff „Film noir“ wurde von dem französischen Filmkritiker Nino Frank geprägt. In seinem 1946 erschienenen Artikel geht er auf US-amerikanische Filme der 40er-Jahre ein, die aufgrund eines Importverbots erst nach Kriegsende den Weg in die europäischen Kinos fanden. Darunter waren neben drei klassischen Hollywood-Filmen auch Frau ohne Gewissen (1944), Laura (1944), Die Spur des Falken (1941) und Leb wohl, Liebling (1944). In diesen vier Produktionen glaubte Frank eine neue Spielart des Kriminalfilms zu entdecken – eine, die grundsätzlich mehr Augenmerk auf die Charakterisierung der Figuren als auf die Handlung legte. Er wies auf den Einsatz von Off-Kommentaren hin, welche die Handlung fragmentierten und die „lebensechte“ Seite des Films hervorhebten. [1]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Im Gegensatz zu Zuschreibungen wie Horrorfilm, Thriller oder Western wurde der Begriff auf Seiten der Filmpublizistik entwickelt und mit Sinn gefüllt und im Nachhinein eine Gruppe an vormals eher lose wahrgenommenen Filmen zusammengefasst. In den USA wurden die Filme, die später „Noir“ genannt werden sollten, oft als psychological melodrama oder psychological thriller bezeichnet.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Source: Wikipedia&lt;/div&gt;</description>
    <media:title>What is Film Noir in fact?</media:title>
    <media:text type="html">&lt;p class="who"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ipernity.com/home/dromwerk"&gt;Roland (low level user)&lt;/a&gt; has started a topic:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="description"&gt;In plain English:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Please only post photos which are; adverse, apocalyptic, baneful, black-hearted, corrupt, deleterious, dire, disastrous, dishonest, disquieting, doomful, evil, expressionist, foreboding, harmful, hurtful, ill-boding, injurious, malefic, malevolent, malign, malignant, menacing, mischievous, ominous, pernicious, perverse, poisonous, portentous, sinister, threatening, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious and woeful in nature as mentioned by Kosta Papanicolas. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
In other words: &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
ENGLISH:  Film Noir&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize moral ambiguity and sexual motivation. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography, while many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Depression.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The term film noir (French for "black film"), first applied to Hollywood movies by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, was unknown to most American film industry professionals of the era. Cinema historians and critics defined the canon of film noir in retrospect; many of those involved in the making of the classic noirs later professed to be unaware of having created a distinctive type of film.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
FRANÇAIS: Film noir&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Le film noir est plus un courant qu'un genre cinématographique. Il est apparu en 1941 (avec le Faucon maltais) aux États-Unis et fortement inspiré des nouvelles de détective de Dashiell Hammett ou Raymond Chandler, elles-même dérivées du naturalisme, un mouvement littéraire basé sur le réalisme. Il se développe cependant surtout à partir de 1944.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Bien qu'il s'agisse d'un genre typiquement américain, le terme film noir est né sous la plume d'un critique de films français, Nino Frank, par assimilation à la Série noire, une collection de romans de détective. Le film noir met généralement en scène un personnage emprisonné dans des situations qui ne sont pas de son fait et acculé à des décisions désespérées. Le meurtre ou le crime, l'infidélité, la trahison, la jalousie et le fatalisme sont des thèmes privilégiés.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Le film noir est pessimiste par essence. L'archétype du protagoniste du film noir est un détective privé de second ordre, cynique et blasé, embauché pour une enquête dont les véritables implications lui sont cachées par son commanditaire. Son enquête l'amène le plus souvent à rencontrer une femme fatale qui le manipule par avidité causant leur perte.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
La Soif du mal (Touch of Evil), tourné en 1958 par Orson Welles est généralement considéré comme le dernier film noir classique. D'autres films reprenant les canons du film noir tournés après cette date sont généralement qualifiés de néo-noirs par les Anglo-Saxons. On compte environ 250 à 400 films qui répondent aux critères de définition du film noir tournés pendant cette période de dix-sept ans.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
DEUTSCH: Film noir&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Der Begriff Film noir (frz. für „schwarzer Film“) bezeichnet ein Filmgenre oder – je nach Sichtweise – eine Stilrichtung des Films. Seine klassische Ära hatte der Film noir in den USA der Vierziger- und Fünfzigerjahre. Wurzelnd in der Zeit des ausgehenden Zweiten Weltkriegs und beeinflusst vom deutschen Expressionismus sowie von der Tradition US-amerikanischer Kriminalliteratur stellt der Film noir einen Gegensatz zum konventionellen Hollywood-Kino dar. Er ist gekennzeichnet durch eine pessimistische Weltsicht, düstere Bildgestaltung und entfremdete, verbitterte Charaktere. Sein Stil hat sich teilweise in späteren Filmen („Neo-Noir“, Cyberpunk) wie auch in anderen Medien fortgesetzt.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Herkunft: Wikipedia &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Der Begriff „Film noir“ wurde von dem französischen Filmkritiker Nino Frank geprägt. In seinem 1946 erschienenen Artikel geht er auf US-amerikanische Filme der 40er-Jahre ein, die aufgrund eines Importverbots erst nach Kriegsende den Weg in die europäischen Kinos fanden. Darunter waren neben drei klassischen Hollywood-Filmen auch Frau ohne Gewissen (1944), Laura (1944), Die Spur des Falken (1941) und Leb wohl, Liebling (1944). In diesen vier Produktionen glaubte Frank eine neue Spielart des Kriminalfilms zu entdecken – eine, die grundsätzlich mehr Augenmerk auf die Charakterisierung der Figuren als auf die Handlung legte. Er wies auf den Einsatz von Off-Kommentaren hin, welche die Handlung fragmentierten und die „lebensechte“ Seite des Films hervorhebten. [1]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Im Gegensatz zu Zuschreibungen wie Horrorfilm, Thriller oder Western wurde der Begriff auf Seiten der Filmpublizistik entwickelt und mit Sinn gefüllt und im Nachhinein eine Gruppe an vormals eher lose wahrgenommenen Filmen zusammengefasst. In den USA wurden die Filme, die später „Noir“ genannt werden sollten, oft als psychological melodrama oder psychological thriller bezeichnet.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Source: Wikipedia&lt;/div&gt;</media:text>
    <media:credit role="author">Roland (low level user)</media:credit>
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    <title>With a little help....</title>
    <link>http://www.ipernity.com/group/filmnoir/discuss/18365</link>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
    <author>nobody@ipernity.com (Roland (low level user))</author>
    <description>&lt;p class="who"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ipernity.com/home/dromwerk"&gt;Roland (low level user)&lt;/a&gt; has started a topic:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="description"&gt;Hi there, &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I've decided to help Lodchjo with this group, so we're in together since this week. This is a great group in my opinion, i had such a group way back when i was on Flickr my first time, so i know the ins and outs of this kind of photography. By coincidence i found this group here on IP this week and offered my help to Lode, he accepted to have me as a co-administrator and i'm really glad about that! &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Please, if someone has any questions or remarks about issues regarding this group, do let us know that, you can send us a mail at any time.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Don't hesitate to look at others work in this group from time to time, you'll find some great photographs here, i can assure you! &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Cheers to all!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Roland&lt;/div&gt;</description>
    <media:title>With a little help....</media:title>
    <media:text type="html">&lt;p class="who"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ipernity.com/home/dromwerk"&gt;Roland (low level user)&lt;/a&gt; has started a topic:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="description"&gt;Hi there, &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I've decided to help Lodchjo with this group, so we're in together since this week. This is a great group in my opinion, i had such a group way back when i was on Flickr my first time, so i know the ins and outs of this kind of photography. By coincidence i found this group here on IP this week and offered my help to Lode, he accepted to have me as a co-administrator and i'm really glad about that! &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Please, if someone has any questions or remarks about issues regarding this group, do let us know that, you can send us a mail at any time.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Don't hesitate to look at others work in this group from time to time, you'll find some great photographs here, i can assure you! &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Cheers to all!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Roland&lt;/div&gt;</media:text>
    <media:credit role="author">Roland (low level user)</media:credit>
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    <title>Big clean-up</title>
    <link>http://www.ipernity.com/group/filmnoir/discuss/18062</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:ipernity.com,2008-08-11,topic-18062</guid>
    <pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
    <author>nobody@ipernity.com (Lodchjo)</author>
    <description>&lt;p class="who"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ipernity.com/home/lodchjo"&gt;Lodchjo&lt;/a&gt; has started a topic:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="description"&gt;Dear people, this group was started as a tribute to the "Film Noir", but gradually regressed into just-any-b&amp;w. Since there are other groups for this purpose, i decided to have a big clean-up, i hope you'll understand. &lt;br /&gt;
Please note that this group was not founded by me, but i just noticed that person sudenly left Ipernity, leaving me with administrator-ship. Other administrators/moderators are welcome!! (And i promise not to leave on you!! :D )&lt;/div&gt;</description>
    <media:title>Big clean-up</media:title>
    <media:text type="html">&lt;p class="who"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ipernity.com/home/lodchjo"&gt;Lodchjo&lt;/a&gt; has started a topic:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="description"&gt;Dear people, this group was started as a tribute to the "Film Noir", but gradually regressed into just-any-b&amp;w. Since there are other groups for this purpose, i decided to have a big clean-up, i hope you'll understand. &lt;br /&gt;
Please note that this group was not founded by me, but i just noticed that person sudenly left Ipernity, leaving me with administrator-ship. Other administrators/moderators are welcome!! (And i promise not to leave on you!! :D )&lt;/div&gt;</media:text>
    <media:credit role="author">Lodchjo</media:credit>
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