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

The role of the filmmaker is changing, from one who records images through a lens to one who curates images from an existing database of f...

This is one of my first films in super 8 mm, it is part of a holiday film which was nominated for an (amateur film) price more than 35 yea...

The aspect ratio of an image describes the proportional relationship between its width and its height. It is commonly expressed as two nu...

The American Cinematographer Manual is a filmmaking manual published by the American Society of Cinematographers. Covering lighting, lense...

Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to films. It is sometimes ...

Expo '98 was an official specialised World's Fair held in Lisbon, Portugal from Friday, 22 May to Wednesday, 30 September 1998. T...

Alsatian cuisine, somewhat based on Germanic culinary traditions, is marked by the use of pork in various forms. It is perhaps mostly kno...

The technological boundaries between home-movie-making and professional movie-making are becoming increasingly blurred as prosumer equipme...

Camping holiday at the border of lake Mosja in Lillehammar Norway  In 1980, the consumer market for Super 8 collapsed. Most of the ind...

The Swedish film industry The Swedish Film Institute was founded in 1963 to support and develop the Swedish film industry. It supports Swe...

The history of film began in the 1890s, when motion picture cameras were invented and film production companies started to be established....

In art, theme is usually about life, society or human nature, but can be any other subject. Themes are the fundamental and often universal...

See original of that time   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCs87Wru6ek Most early filmmakers—such as Thomas Edison, Auguste and Louis L...

Viva, vive, and vivat are interjections used in the Romance languages. Viva in Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian, Vive in French, and Viva...

The Rhine and the Danube formed most of the northern inland frontier of the Roman Empire and, since those days, the Rhine has been a...

Visual anthropology is concerned, in part, with the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and, since the mid-1990s, new m...

Lake Garda (Italian: Lago di Garda [ˈlaːɡo di ˈɡarda] or Lago Bènaco, Latin: Benacus; Lombard: Lach de Garda; Venetian: Łago de Garda) is ...

Widescreen images are a variety of aspect ratios used in film, television and computer screens. In film, a widescreen film is any film im...

Salamanca (population 160,000) is a city in central Spain.The city was founded in the pre-Roman period by Vacceos, an indigenous tribe, as...

This sequence was shot on a welfare market in our city. This folklore group is singing a song in a language i do not recognize. Who do...

  A little play by members of our filmgroup which was made in a couple of hours The easy way is to catch a joke and make a video out of it...

Sometime you come across a event which you do not encounter every day How to make a story out of it? The editing was done with iMovie and ...

If you're making movies of activities within a relatively small area, it's often a good idea to change your viewpoint to accommoda...

Meierij van 's-Hertogenbosch (Bailiwick of Bois le Duc) was one of the four parts of the former duchy of Brabant, the others being th...

A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area (DMA), television market area, or simply market is a region where t...

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, hea...

The origin of the term "footage" is that early 35 mm silent film has traditionally been measured in feet and frames; the fact th...

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction...

Zion National Park is located in the Southwestern United States, near Springdale, Utah. A prominent feature of the 229-square-mile (590 km...

Shaky camera, is a cinematographic technique where stable-image techniques are purposely dispensed with. The camera is held in the hand, o...

The regional Best museum of ONE BRIDGE TOO FAR: To their south, units of the 101st sent to take Best the day before, were forced to yie...

On its most fundamental level, film editing is the art, technique, and practice of assembling shots into a coherent sequence. The job of ...

Collage (from the French: coller, "to glue"; French pronunciation: is a technique of an art production, primarily used in the vi...

Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry" (Liddell and Scott 1996)) generally means a "...

Examples of forced perspective: A scene in an action/adventure movie in which dinosaurs are threatening the heroes. By placing a miniatu...

The Moselle (French: la Moselle, IPA: [mɔzɛl]; German: Mosel; Luxembourgish: Musel) is a river flowing through France, Luxembourg, and Ge...

The park's water displays are an outstanding and unique example of the art of monumental water engineering practiced in the era of E...

Preserving the “Works of Man” Mesa Verde, Spanish for green table, offers a spectacular look into the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo peopl...

This firework was shot in Disneyland Paris lifesound is mixed with music from "the circle of life"   

" it's a small world" is currently an attraction at Disneyland Paris. Like several other Disneyland attractions, "it...

RetroCOD, Inc. provides the content on the RetroCOD Websites in an effort to preserve, and provide access to, our collective cultural hist...

Passau (Latin: Batavia) is a town in Niederbayern, Eastern Bavaria, Germany, known also as the Dreiflüssestadt (City of Three Rivers), bec...

For this video I did the editing including the music. The footage was shot by collegues amateur filmmakers. I personally think this is a ...

Video8 was launched in the 1980s, into a market dominated by the VHS-C and Betamax formats. In terms of video quality, Video8, VHS/VHS-C,...

The Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation operates a television and radio station on UHF, VHF and medium-wave. The radio service is also inte...

Locals refer to Kanab as "Little Hollywood" due to its history as a filming location for mostly western movies and television ser...

Bingen am Rhein is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The settlement’s original name was Bingium, a Ce...

A narrator is a personal character or a non-personal voice that the creator (author) of the story develops to deliver information to the a...