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

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...

A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect of that community and its religion...

What's in the background?Most of your shots will include background elements that are part of the location where you're shooting...

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In 1914, the German Army opened the Western Front by first invading Luxembourg and Belgium, then gaining military control of important ind...

A hospital foundation from the Middle Ages, the Hospices de Beaune is one of France’s most prestigious historic monuments. Its flamboyant...

Source music Most films have between 40 and 120 minutes of music. However, some films have very little or no music; others may feature a ...

The word coffeeshop, conveniently created by the Dutch habit of running words together, has become synonymous with a special kind of coffe...

A disaster film is a film genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster as its subject and primary plot device. Such disasters include na...

German Expressionism refers to a number of related creative movements beginning in Germany before the First World War that reached a pea...

Highgate Cemetery is a famous cemetery located in Highgate, London, England. The cemetery in its original form was opened in 1839, part of ...

He was born in Cegléd, Austria–Hungary, the son of György Pál Marczincsak Sr. and his wife Maria. He graduated from the Budapest Academy ...

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...