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

We’re all just a click or two away from an intriguing video on the Net, an appetite-whetting essay on a scholarly website, and an enthusia...

In the visual arts, style is a "...distinctive manner which permits the grouping of works into related categories". or "......

A short featurefilm with a simpel clue: the murder was set in scene by the ex-woman but she forgot that the victim was lefthanded. The f...

When you travel from our country into the south to Italy e.g. you will have to cross the Alps. This part of a vacationvideo shows the way ...

In April of 1965, Kodak unveiled Super 8 mm film. This revolutionary new format had some advantages when compared to its older brother (Do...

In the digital age, film-making has become a still more pressured profession, as directorial autonomy is further eroded. “The new techn...

A report or account is an informational work, such as writing, speech, television or film, made with the intention of relaying informati...

The experimental film Roundhay Garden Scene, filmed by Louis Le Prince on 14 October 1888, in Roundhay, Leeds, England, is the earliest su...

CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in Total Recall (1990). Motion capture is the process of recording t...

Flipcams are some of the hottest selling video cameras today. It’s easy to see why. They’re cheap, easy-to-use and produce a great shot. ...

Horror is a film genre seeking to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's primal fears. Horror...

  These scenes are taken from Britain by car, a family vacation film at time when my daughter was still a young girl. She is now already a m...

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up ...

JOOP GEESINK would successfully star himself in one of his colorful puppet animations. He is a round man; with a round character and also ...

De brug (The bridge) is a 1928 Dutch documentary short film directed by Joris Ivens. This silent film explores the then-newly constructed R...

As their name implies, movie palaces, like other products of the age, were advertised to "make the average citizen feel like royalty...

A newsreel is a form of short documentary film prevalent in the first half of the twentieth century, regularly released in a public presen...

Street theatre is a form of theatrical performance and presentation in outdoor public spaces without a specific paying audience. These spa...

The Westphalian Open-Air Museum... Here, you find a recreation.... of common life of the past 500 years in Westphalia arranged on more th...

Cinema of France refers to the film industry based in France. The French cinema comprises the art of film and creative movies made within ...

Ronda Dreamed City … is Ronda. That is where you should go if you ever go to Spain on a honeymoon or if you ever bolt with anyone. The en...

Anyone who comes across a situation that could use stock footage and doesn’t use it, is a fool. Worse, he’s a time and money waster. Think...

Day for night, also known as nuit américaine ("American night"), is the name for cinematographic techniques used to simulate a n...

Located in the Spanish region of Andalusia. The structure is regarded as one of the most accomplished monuments of Moorish architecture. ...

Ronda is a city in the Spanish province of Málaga. It is located about 100 km from the city of Málaga, within the autonomous community of ...

Home movies about road trips are especially wonderful, and my fascination with these (especially with the view of the landscape seen throu...

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...

Nerja is a tourism-oriented town on the Costa del Sol in the province of Málaga, which lies in one of Spain's 17 autonomous regions, A...

Video compression method (digital only)A wide variety of methods are used to compress video streams. Video data contains spatial and tempo...

The Giralda is the bell tower of the Cathedral of Seville in Seville, Spain, one of the largest churches in the world and an outstanding e...

A travel documentary is a documentary film, television program, or online series that describes travel in general or tourist attractions ...

So, you want to be a storyteller, possibly on film/video, possibly on a dozen different mediums, and you are well and alive in 2013. Well,...

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...