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

" Autobiographical works are by nature subjective. The inability—or unwillingness—of the author to accurately recall memories has in ...

  An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional m...

    The set dresser on a movie is responsible for making the location of every scene look convincing. This may sound easy, but in the magica...

    Once video was computer data, moving images could be any size and any frame rate within the power of that computer system. Just as film ...

    "Pulling focus" refers to the act of changing the lens's focus distance setting in correspondence to a moving subject'...

      Every National Film Archive represents a film collection of particular nation. These films are in most cases unique. The Film Archiv...

Filmmaking – process of making a film. Filmmaking involves a number of discrete stages including an initial story, idea, or commission, th...

In filmmaking, video production, animation, and related fields, a frame is one of the many still images which compose the complete moving...

Key Frame: In some forms of digital compression, uncompressed frames (key frames) are placed at regular intervals (eg. every 6th frame is ...

30-degree rule A basic film editing guideline that states the camera should move at least 30 degrees relative to the subject between suc...

A discussion panel at the Davos World Economic Forum has become a sensation after a Dutch historian took billionaires to task for not payi...

As a filmmaker, Chaplin is considered a pioneer and one of the most influential figures of the early twentieth century He is often credite...

Field recording is the term used for an audio recording produced outside a recording studio. Field recordings can be either of two var...

International borders Lake Constance is the only area in Europe where no borders exist, because there is no legally binding agreement as ...

Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider. The verb ...

Kodak ceased sales of standard 8 mm film under its own brand in the early 1990s, but continued to manufacture the film, which was sold via ...

William Tell Set in the early 14th century (traditional date 1307, during the rule of Albert of Habsburg), the first written records of t...

A road film is a film genre in which the main characters leave home on a road trip, typically altering the perspective from their everyday...

This is my very first vacation movie shot op super 8 in 1975 in Switzerland Home videos are priceless records of our personal histories. T...

Kodachrome is a brand name for a non-substantive, color reversal film introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1935. It was one of the first success...