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

An establishing shot in filmmaking and television production sets up, or establishes the context for a scene by showing the relationship b...

The province's capital city is a well known tourist destination. Mezquita was built using pillars of uneven heights. The city was decl...

Today, 10 to 20% of box office receipts in Spain are generated by domestic films, a situation that repeats itself in many nations of Europ...

Seville is the artistic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain, crossed by the river Guadalquivir It is the capital of Andalus...

A hero (masculine) or heroine (feminine) is a person or main character of a literary work who, in the face of danger, combats adversity th...

Just over a year ago, we became fascinated by the idea of discovering the world through someone else’s eyes. What if you could see throug...

The art of motion-picture making within the Kingdom of Spain or by Spanish filmmakers abroad is collectively known as Spanish Cinema. ...

Cordoba is a city in Andalucia, southern Spain, and the capital of the province of Cordoba on the Guadalquivir river, it was founded in an...

The art of motion-picture making within the Kingdom of Spain or by Spanish filmmakers abroad is collectively known as Spanish Cinema. In r...

The Holy Week. A tradition that dates from medieval times which has spread to other cities in Andalusia, the "Semana Santa en Sevilla...

A photographic lens for which the focus is not adjustable is called a fixed-focus lens or sometimes focus-free. The focus is set at the ti...

The Hospital de los Venerables (officially the Hospital de Venerables Sacerdotes, Hospital of Venerable Priests, popularly known as the H...

16 mm film was introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1923 as an inexpensive amateur alternative to the conventional 35 mm film format. During the...

Norway has had a notable cinema industry for some time. In the early 21st century a few Norwegian film directors have had the opportunity...

  The Western genre sometimes portrays the conquest of the wilderness and the subordination of nature in the name of civilization or the con...

Telecine is the process of transferring motion picture film into video and is performed in a color suite. The term is also used to refer t...

A movie star (also known as a film star and cinema star) is a celebrity who is well-known, or famous, for his or her starring, or leading,...

A main title designer is the designer of the movie title. The manner in which title of a movie is displayed on screen is widely considered...

Packaged movies Although the 8 mm format was originally intended for creating amateur films, condensed versions of popular cinema release...

On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanes...

A sample, and I have more, of the usage of images of mine (commercial use not allowed) by the mafioso music-industry to make money. And ...

Amateur usage of Super 8 has been largely replaced by video, but the format is often used by professionals in music videos, TV commercials...

This is one of my first video's. The camera was a sony digital8 camera. This event took place in the pub next to our clubhouse. Nothin...

Any examination in detail of the British contribution to the motion picture reveals a disappointing diminution in its importance since the...

In 1965, Super-8 film was released and was quickly adopted by the amateur film-maker. It featured a better quality image, and was easier t...

War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about naval, air, or land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama. It h...

Thanks to over a dozen film stocks and certain features common in Super 8 cameras but unavailable in video camcorders–notably the ability...

Maastricht developed from a Roman settlement to a Medieval religious centre, a garrison town and an early industrial city Today, Maastrich...

The American Film Institute defines western films as those "set in the American West that embod[y] the spirit, the struggle and the d...

The 8mm video format refers informally to three related videocassette formats for the NTSC and PAL/SECAM television systems. These are the...

Yellowstone National Park is a national park located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, although it also extends into Montana and Id...

In a world where you can stream nearly any type of content from the cloud, the VHS tape is a relic of the past. Once upon a time, though, i...

The 30-degree rule is a basic film editing guideline that states the camera should move at least 30 degrees relative to the subject betw...

      An animated cartoon is an animated film, usually a short film, featuring an exaggerated visual style. The style takes inspiration from...

In 1965, Super-8 film was released and was quickly adopted by the amateur film-maker. It featured a better quality image, and was easier t...

Norway has had a notable cinema industry for some time. In the early 21st century a few Norwegian film directors have had the opportunity ...

In both the United States and Europe, the idea of children's films began to gain relative prominence in the 1930s. According to Bazalg...

  Kodak has also introduced several Super 8 negative stocks cut from their Vision film series, ISO 200 and ISO 500 which can be used in ver...

Friends of us who had a vacation at the same time as we did. In addition to my own super 8 films Wil shot his footage.

A horse show is a judged exhibition of horses and ponies. Many different horse breeds and equestrian disciplines hold competitions worldwi...

Caldey Island also spelled Caldy Island , island in Carmarthen Bay of the Bristol Channel, Pembrokeshire county, Wales. It lies 2.3 mile...

    Acousmatic sound is sound that is heard without an originating cause being seen. The word acousmatic , from the Fren...

Super 8mm film is a motion picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement over the older "Double" or ...

Kodak super-8 cameras For years, the Eastman Kodak Company had worked to develop a system of movie equipment and film that would be easy ...

A narrow-gauge railway (or narrow-gauge railroad) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than the 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) of standard g...

In the United Kingdom, the term trail is used, but mostly for longer distance walking routes through open country with rough surfacing. ...

a super8 mm film The super 8mm system was one of the few film formats where the requirements of sound were designed in from the start. The...

London has played a significant role in the film industry, and has major studios at Ealing and a special effects and post-production comm...