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— John Huston [1906-87]
Online Film Festival Pages
The Online Film Festival Index Page includes
several festivals a-building, plus there are these stand-alone festival pages:
Afro-American Film Festival Page
Atomic Film Festival Page
Ayn Rand Film Festival Page
Education Film Festival Page
Films Noir Festival Pages
Gangster Film Festival Page
Hollywood Film Festival Page
Labor Movement Film Festival
Movie Musicals Film Festival Pages
Muscle-Head Film Festival Page
Pirate Film Festival Page
Political Film Festival Pages
'Rat Race' Film Festival Page
Road Movies Film Festival Page
Samurai Films Festival Page
'Shakespeare On Film' Festival Pages
Sherlock Holmes Film Festival Page
Sports Film Festival Page
War [and Anti-War] Movies Film Festival Pages
Beatnik Film Festival Page
'Biker Movies' Film Festival Page
Culver City, California Film Festival Page
Economics Film Festival
Existentialist Film Festival Page
Human Rights Film Festival Page
Philosophy Film Festival Page
Railroad Film Festival Page
Western Movies Film Festival Pages
Oscar-winning Western Movies Page
Native American Film Festival
Kings & Queens Film Festival Page 
— further planned festivals include Jazz Music Film Festival,
Teen/Surf Movie Festival & Rock Music Film Festival
Movies & TV on DVD & Blu-ray Bargain Hunter Store at Amazon
 | "The A List: The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films" [2002] Edited by Jay Carr Da Capo Press 9x6 pb [1/2002] for $11.67 |
 | "The New York Times Guide To The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made" [1999] by Vincent Canby, Janet Maslin & others, edited by Peter M. Nichols St. Martin's 9x7¼ pb [2/2004] 1200 pages for $16.97 Three Rivers Press 9¼x7½ pb [11/99] for $17.00 N.Y. Times online list |
 | "100 Years of Cinema" {posters} [1995] Compiled by Bruce Hershenson self-published 10½x8¼ pb [5/99] for $20.00 self-published hardcover [10/95] not available online |
Academy Award Winners
Oscars index page with books & video collections
Great Films Before The Academy Awards
1927-1931 1931-1940 1941-1950 1951-1960
1961-1970 1971-1980 1981-1990 1991-2000
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
2013 2014 2015
Oscar-Winning Western Movies
| browse Amazon's 'Oscar® Central' Store
Past Oscar Winners: Best Picture
Past Oscar Winners: Best Director
Past Oscar Winners: Best Actor
Past Oscar Winners: Best Actress
Past Oscar Winners: Best Foreign-Language Film
Past Oscar Winners: Best Animated Feature Film: 2001-Present |
Other Awards
American Film Institute Collections Page
Directors Profiles
100 Years Celebration
Lifetime Achievement Awards
Golden Trailer Awards [May 2011 = #12]
![Critics Choice Movie Awards [Jan 2011 = #16] from channel VH1](images/CriticsChoiceMovieAwards.jpg)
![Webby Awards [2012 = #16] for websites, online film & video, mobile & apps, and online ads](images/WebbyAwards.jpg)
 | The Hundred Flowers Film Festival was started in 1962; the China Golden Rooster Awards were started in May 1981; the two events were combined in 1992. festival entry at Wikipedia |
Current Directors / Filmmakers
Films Coming Soon posters category at AllPosters.com
A.F.I. Directors Profiles [1995-2008] on VHS or DVD
Current Directors & Filmmakers Page
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writer-actor-director Woody Allen Pages
documentary producer-director Ken Burns Page
actor-director George Clooney Page
Coen Brothers: Joel & Ethan Page
actor-director Clint Eastwood Page
at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore
gadfly filmmaker Michael Moore Page
actor-director Tyler Perry Page
XXth Century Directors
Hal Ashby
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Busby Berkeley
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Budd Boetticher
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Richard Brooks
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John Cassavetes
Blake Edwards
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Victor Fleming
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John Frankenheimer
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Burt Kennedy
Anthony Mann
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Nicholas Ray
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George Stevens
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John Sturges
W.S. Van Dyke
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Josef von Sternberg
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William A. Wellman
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Robert Wise
Ed Wood ธ
...and many others
now on their own page
...plus individual pages for
Robert Altman [1925-2006] ธ Ingmar Bergman [1918-2007] of Sweden ธ Mel Brooks
George Cukor [1899-1983] ธ Luis Bu๑uel [1900-83] ธ Frank Capra [1897-1991]
Michael Curtiz [1886-1962] ธ Edward Dmytryk [1908-99] ธ Clint Eastwood
Federico Fellini [1920-93] of Italy ธ John Ford [1894-1973] ธ Samuel Fuller [1912-97]
Jean-Luc Godard of France ธ Howard Hawks [1896-1977] ธ John Huston [1906-87]
Alfred Hitchcock [1899-1980] ธ Elia Kazan [1909-2003] ธ Stanley Kubrick [1928-99]
Akira Kurosawa [1910-98] of Japan ธ Fritz Lang [1890-1976] ธ Jerry Lewis
Ernst Lubitsch [1892-1947] ธ Rouben Mamoulian [1897-1987]
Jean-Pierre Melville [1917-73] of France ธ Vincente Minnelli [1903-86] ธ Sam Peckinpah [1925-84]
Satyajit Ray [1921-92] of India ธ Preston Sturges [1898-1959] ธ Jacques Tati [1907-82] of France
Fran็ois Truffaut [1932-84] of France ธ Raoul Walsh [1887-1980] ธ Orson Welles [1915-85]
Independent & Avant-Garde Filmmakers
John Cassavetes Alex Cox Maya Deren Jim Jarmusch Alejandro Jodorowsky
Warren Miller Godfrey Reggio John Sayles John Waters and others...
now on their own page
...plus individual pages for
Robert Greenwald ธ Michael Moore
Pioneers of the Cinema
Dorothy Arzner Theodore W. Case George Eastman Wm. Friese-Greene
Louis Le Prince Lumi่re Brothers Eadweard Muybridge G.W. Pabst
Edwin S. Porter Wm. Desmond Taylor and others ...
now on their own page
...plus Magic Lantern's individual pages for
Charlie Chaplin [1889-1977] ธ Thomas Alva Edison [1847-1931]
Sergei M. Eisenstein [1898-1948] ธ D.W. Griffith [1875-1948]
Thomas H. Ince [1882-1924] ธ Buster Keaton [1895-1966]
Harold Lloyd [1893-1971] ธ Georges M้li่s [1861-1938]
Oscar Micheaux [1884-1951] ธ F.W. Murnau [1888-1931]
Hal Roach [1892-1992] ธ Mack Sennett [1880-1960]
King Vidor [1894-1982] ธ Erich von Stroheim [1885-1957]
Foreign Directors, Auteurs & Actors
Foreign Cinema Page: click here
includes Pedro Almod๓var Ingmar Bergman Luis Bu๑uel
Roman Polanski Andrei Tarkovsky and many others ...
Cinema of Asia Page: click here
films & people of Asia in general, and Korea & Thailand
Cinema of Canada Page: click here
Cinema of China Page: click here
films & people of mainland China, Hong Kong, & R.O.C./Taiwan
includes Jackie Chan Tsui Hark Wong Kar-Wai Bruce Lee Jet Li Anna May Wong
John Woo Michelle Yeoh Zhang Yimou Chow Yun-Fat and many others ...
Cinema of France Pages: click here
includes Jean-Paul Belmondo Claude Chabrol Philippe de Broca Jean-Luc Godard
Claude Lelouch Jean-Pierre Melville Yves Montand Jean Renoir Jacques Tati
Jean-Louis Trintignant Fran็ois Truffaut Agnes Varda and many others ...
Cinema of Germany Page: click here
includes Rainer Werner Fassbinder Werner Herzog Klaus Kinski
Leni Riefenstahl Volker Schl๖ndorff Wim Wenders and many others ...
Cinema of India Page: click here
includes Deepa Mehta Satyajit Ray and many others ...
Cinema of Italy Page: click here
includes Antonioni Bertolucci de Sica Fellini Mastroianni Rossellini
Scola Visconti Zeffirelli and many others ...
Cinema of Japan Pages: click here
includes Samurai Films Kiyoshi Atsumi Hiroshi Inagaki Juzo Itami Akira Kurosawa
Toshir๔ Mifune Hayao Miyazaki Kenji Mizoguchi Tatsuya Nakadai Yasujiro Ozu
Takashi Shimura Ken Takakura Yoji Yamada Zat๔-Ichi and many others ...
Cinema of Mexico Page: click here
includes Pedro Armendแriz Luis Bu๑uel Cantinflas Dolores del Rio Guillermo del Toro
Maria F้lix Emilio Fernแndez Vicente Fernแndez Gabriel Figueroa Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez
Arturo Ripstein Ignacio L๓pez Tarso and many others ...
Cinema of Russia Page: click here
includes Sergei Eisenstein Nikita Mikhalkov
Stanislav Rostotsky Aleksandr Sokurov
Andrei Tarkovsky
Dziga Vertov and many others ...
Cinema of Spain / Espa๑a Page: click here
includes Pedro Almod๓var Alejandro Amenแbar Vicente Aranda Luis Bu๑uel
Javier Bardem Pen้lope Cruz Fernando Rey Carlos Saura and many others ...
Movies: Great & Unsung
"Amadeus"
"Annie Hall"
"Bill and Coo"
"Buckaroo Banzai"
"Cutter's Way"
"Do The Right Thing"
"Do-Desu-Ka-Den"
"Fritz The Cat"
"Gigot"
"The Gods Must Be Crazy"
"Greed" [1924]
"If I Had A Million"
"King of Hearts"
"Lemonade Joe"
"The Madwoman of Chaillot"
Neil Young's "Journey Through The Past"
"Putney Swope"
"Whistle Down The Wind"
. . . and others
moved to its own page
My Ten Most-Favorite Films & Why
includes "Akahige" aka 'Red Beard' [1965], "2001: A Space Odyssey" [1968], "The Wild Bunch" [1969],
"Barry Lyndon" [1975], "Taxi Driver" [1976], "Apocalypse Now" [1979], "Reds" [1981], "Fitzcarraldo" [1982],
"Wings of Desire" [1987], "Faraway, So Close" [1993] & "Forrest Gump" [1994]
moved to its own page
Movie Series & Comedy Teams
Batman
'Carry On' Series
Dead End Kids / Bowery Boys
Francis the Mule
Andy Hardy
Indiana Jones
Martin & Lewis
Monty Python
Star Wars
Superman
and others...
are on the Movie Series & Comedy Teams Page
...plus individual pages for
Abbott & Costello
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James Bond
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Charlie Chan
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Harry Potter
Laurel & Hardy
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Little Rascals / Our Gang
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'Lord of The Rings'
The Marx Brothers
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'Pirates of The Caribbean'
ธ 'Tarzan' Movies
Hammett's 'The Thin Man'
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The Three Stooges
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Zat๔ichi
History of Cinema Pages
History of Cinema Page
History of Radio & Television Pages
Movie Palaces Page
Drive-In Movie Theaters Page
The Hollywood Blacklist
Movie Posters Page
Movie Industry Pages
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New Mexico Movie Industry Pages
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ฏ Movie Music & Composers ฏ
Movie Music & Composers page
browse Movie Soundtracks category at Amazon
Essential Soundtracks at Amazon
Essential Musicals On Film at Amazon
Movie Musicals Film Festival Pages
Film Genres
Afro-American Film Festival Pages
page one books filmmakers links
on page two: actors & actresses movie collections docufilms movie music
on page three: selected films & TV (chronological)
Gangster Movie Film Festival Page
books about gangster movies gangster movie collections gangster movies A-Z
Hispanic-American Cinema
main page books people selected films
Simultaneous Bilingual Film Production
synopsis for screenplay "El Tigr๓n" by G.E. Nordell
Road Movies Film Festival Page
Silent & Sound Movie Serials Pages
Martial Arts Films
Magic Lantern's Samurai Films Festival
Magic Lantern's 'Cinema of Asia' Page
Magic Lantern's 'Cinema of China' Page
Magic Lantern's 'Cinema of Japan' Page
browse Martial Arts Films at Amazon
 | "Chasing Dragons: An Introduction To The Martial Arts Film" [2006] by David West I.B. Tauris 8½x5½ pb [12/2006] for $14.95 |
Films Noir
BlackHat Mystery Bookstore's Film Noir Festival Pages
Books on Film Noir
BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
Raymond Chandler [1888-1959] Pages
Dashiell Hammett [1894-1961]Pages
Graphic Noir
BlackHat Mystery Bookstore's Frank Miller Page
The Western
Western Film Festival Pages
Books About Western Movies
Oscar-Winning Western Movies
'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore
Billy the Kid Page
Budd Boetticher: videos IMDb listing
'Hopalong Cassidy' Page
'The Cisco Kid' Page
John Ford [1894-1973] Page
Hoot Gibson [1892-1962] Page
Zane Grey [1872-1939] Pages +
Zane Grey Movies Pages
William S. Hart [1864-1946] Page
'The Lone Ranger' Page
Tim McCoy [1891-1978] Page
Tom Mix [1880-1940] Page
Sam Peckinpah [1925-84] Page
Randolph Scott [1898-1987] Page
Fred Thomson [1890-1928] Page
John Wayne [1907-79] Page
Native American Film Festival Page at 'Readers of The Purple Sage'
Horror, Monster & Fantasy Movies
HorrorWood webzine & fansite
DLR's 'Online Dictionary of Hammer Horror' fansite [est. 2005]
Chris's world famous 'British Horror Films' website
Magic Lantern's 'Godzilla' Movies Page
"Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein" [1948]
"Abbott & Costello Meet The Invisible Man" [1951]
"Abbott & Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" [1953]
"Abbott & Costello Meet The Mummy" [1955]
"Carry On Screaming" [1966]
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"Horror 250 Movie Pack DVD Box Set" [2007] Ohmigod! 250 movies on 60 disks ! Mill Creek Ent. DVD [10/2007] 60 disks for $89.99 comprised of selections from these Mill Creek DVD box sets: Alien Worlds 20 Movie Pack, Apocalypse 20 Movie Pack, Bela Lugosi: Master of Horror 10 Movie Pack, Beyond The Grave 20 Movie Pack, Chilling 20 Movie Pack, Chilling Classics 50 Movie Pack, Fright Night 10 Movie Pack, Horror 100 Movie Pack, Horror Classics 50 Movie Pack, Monsters 20 Movie Pack, Night Screams 50 Movie Pack, Nightmare Worlds 50 Movie Pack, Sci-Fi Classics 100 Movie Pack, Strange Tales 20 Movie Pack, Tales of Terror 50 Movie Pack, Vampires & More! 20 Movie Pack, Warriors 50 Movie Pack & others |
 | "Universal Studios Monsters: A Legacy of Horror" [2009] by Michael Mallory Rizzoli Universe 12x9¼ hardcover [9/2009] for $26.40 |
 | "Dracula by Bram Stoker: Critical Insights" [2009] Edited by Jack Lynch Salem Press library hardcover [9/2009] for $85.00 |
 | "Hollywood Horror: From Gothic To Cosmic" [2005] by Mark A. Vieira Harry N. Abrams 12x9¼ hardcover [11/2003] for $32.85 |
 | "Illustrated History of Movies Thru Posters #19: 60 Great Horror Movie Posters" [2003] by Bruce Hershenson self-published 10¾x8½ pb [7/2003] for $11.69 |
 | "Illustrated History of Movies Thru Posters #7: Horror Movie Posters" [1998] by Bruce Hershenson & Richard Allen self-published 10¾x8¾ pb [10/98] out of print/rare |
 | "Creature Features: The Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Movie Guide" [1997] by John Stanley Berkley Trade 9x6 pb [8/2000] out of print/used Boulevard Books mass pb [2/97] out of print/used |
 | "Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula From Novel To Stage To Screen" [1990] by David J. Skal Faber & Faber 8½x5¼ pb [10/2004] for $13.50 W.W. Norton pb [10/91] out of print/used W.W. Norton 10¼x8¾ hardcover [1/90] out of print/used |
Science Fiction Movies
Roaring Rockets - The Space Hero Files
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"SciFi Classics 50 Movie Pack DVD Box Set" [2004]
Mill Creek Ent. DVD box set [3/2004] 12 disks for $14.49 includes "The Amazing Transparent Man" [1960] starring Maguerite Chapman; "Assignment: Outer Space" aka 'Space Men' [1960] starring Rik Van Nutter; "The Atomic Brain" aka 'Monstrosity' [1964] starring Bradford Dillman; "Battle of The Worlds" [Italy 1961] starring Claude Rains; "Bride of The Gorilla" [1951] starring Raymond Burr & Barbara Payton; "Crash of The Moons" [1954] starring Richard Crane as TV's 'Rocky Jones, Space Ranger'; "Devil of The Desert vs. Son of Hercules" [Italy 1964] starring Kirk Morris; "First Spaceship On Venus" [1960] starring Yoko Tani; "Gamera The Invincible" [Japan 1966] starring Brain Donlevy; "Hercules Unchained" [Italy 1959] starring Steve Reeves & Sylva Koscina; "The Incredible Petrified World" [1957] |
| starring John Carradine; "Killers From Space" [1954] starring Peter Graves; "King of Kong Island" [Italy 1968] starring Brad Harris & Esmeralda Barros; "Laser Mission" [1990] starring Brandon Lee & Debi A. Monahan; "The Lost Jungle" [1934] starring Clyde Beatty; "Menace From Outer Space" [1956] starring Richard Crane as TV's 'Rocky Jones, Space Ranger'; "Mesa of Lost Women" [1953] starring Jackie Coogan; "Moon of The Wolf" [1972 TV movie] starring David Janssen; "Queen of The Amazons" [1947] starring Robert Lowery & Patricia Morison; "Santa Claus Conquers The Martians" [1964] starring Pia Zadora; "Son of Hercules: The Land of Darkness" [Italy 1963] starring Dan Vadis; "Teenagers From Outer Space" [1959] starring David Love & Dawn Bender; Roger Corman's "Voyage To The Planet of Prehistoric Women" [1968] directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Mamie Van Doren; "Voyage to The Prehistoric Planet" [1965] starring Basil Rathbone & Faith Domergue; Roger Corman's "The Wasp Woman" [1960] starring Susan Cabot; "Zontar, The Thing From Venus" [1966 TV movie] starring John Agar – and dozens more! |
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"Tech-Noir: The Fusion of Science Fiction and Film Noir" [2008] by Paul Meehan McFarland & Co. 10x7 hardcover [4/2008] for $55.00 |
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"Attack of The Sci-Fi Trivia" [2007] by Nick Lyons Ladder Press 9x6 pb [4/2007] for $14.99 |
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"Mad, Bad and Dangerous?: The Scientist and The Cinema" [2005] by Christopher Frayling Reaktion Books 9x6 pb [9/2006] for $15.96 Reaktion Books 9¼x6 hardcover [12/2005] for $35.00 |
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"The Science Fiction Film Reader" [2004] by Gregg Rickman Limelight Editions 9x6 pb [7/2004] for $15.61 |
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"Science Fiction Film" [2003] by J.P. Telotte Cambridge Univ Press 8¾x6 pb [8/2003] for $28.49 Cambridge Univ Press 9½x6 hardcover [8/2003] for $85.00 |
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"The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Movies: From 1897 To The Present" [2001] by C. J. Henderson, Foreword by William Shatner often opinionated {per Amazon reviewers}, but lists 1300+ films Checkmark Books 10¾X8½ pb [8/2001] out of print/used Facts On File 11¼x8¾ hardcover [6/2001] out of print/used |
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Movie Stars & Unknowns
Actors & Movie Stars of Today Page
writer-actor-director Woody Allen Pages
actor-director George Clooney Page
actor-director Clint Eastwood Page
at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore
actress-director Jodie Foster Page
actor-director Tyler Perry Page
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Actors and Others of Yesterday
Both known and lesser-known actors & actresses, from silents to recent times
from Akim Tamiroff, thru many favorites, to Yakima Canutt
Actors: Stars & Unknowns [A to Z] Pages
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle [1887-1933] Page
Humphrey Bogart [1899-1957] Page
Douglas Fairbanks [1883-1939] Page
Edward R. Murrow [1908-65] Page
Randolph Scott [1898-1987] Page
Elizabeth Taylor [1932-2011] Page
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Actors of Asia
Actors of Canada
Actors of China
Actors of France
Actors of Germany
Actors of India
Actors of Italy
Actors of Japan
Actors of Mexico
Actors of Russia
Actors of Spain
Other Foreign Actors
Miscellaneous Cinema Links
Midnight Palace - old movies, classic & obscure 1900-1955
Movies 4 Arabs
FilmJumper
Off Beat Cinema tv show [est. 1993]
Star du Cin้ photos website
Danger & Despair [noir videos & 16mm]
Grapevine Video [Jack Hardy]
Em Gee Film Library [Murray Glass]
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