Amateur-Film and Home-Video, Tips and Information from C'est leToon

      A comedy of manners typically takes as its subject a particular part of society (usually upper-class society) and uses humor to parody...

  Méliès was an early film innovator after accidentally discovering the remarkable effect of film editing. He initially showed simple records...

  Émile Reynaud already mentioned the possibility of projecting images of the Praxinoscope in his 1877 patent application. He presented a pr...

     A diorama[a] is a replica of a scene, typically a three-dimensional model either full-sized or miniature. Sometimes dioramas are enclos...

      Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot 28 September 1934 – 28 December 2025), often referred to by her initials B.B., was a French actress, singe...

     Those seeking to learn the technical craft of filmmaking in the early days of cinema were largely self-taught engineers or still photog...

      Visual poetry is a style of poetry that incorporates graphic and visual design elements to convey its meaning. This style combines vis...

     Vincent van Gogh was an avid letter writer. He had a great need to share his ideas and feelings. After he and his siblings had left hom...

      Tati as director  In early 1946, Jacques Tati and Fred Orain founded the production company Cady-Films, which would produce Tati's...

     Pre-production formally begins once a project has been greenlit. It involves finalizing the script, hiring the actors and crew, finding...

  Continuity editing uses a guideline called the "30-degree rule" to avoid the appearance of jump cuts. The 30-degree rule adv...

  The Cité du Cinéma or Studios of Paris is a film studio complex originally supported and founded by the film director and producer Luc Bes...

      Agnès Varda was a Belgian-born French film director, screenwriter and photographer. Varda's work employed location shooting in an...

      Launched in May 1965 by Eastman Kodak at that year's International Photo Exposition, held simultaneously with the ongoing 1964 New...

   In 2013, France was the second largest exporter of films in the world after the United States, and a 2014 study showed that French cinema...

    Daguerréotypes is a 1976 documentary film directed by Agnès Varda, capturing the lives of shopkeepers and residents along Rue Daguerre...

     The film had its world premiere in Germany in 1973. It was finally shown in France in 1971, being initially released in a theatre in Ri...

A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. Typically, a podcast is an episodic series of digita...

    Film taken by mobile devices often employ characteristics that would have been considered error in conventional film-making. The inclusi...

  Cutting on action or matching on action refers to film editing and video editing techniques where the editor cuts from one shot to anot...