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

Efteling is the largest theme park in the Netherlands and one of the oldest theme parks in the world. It's located in the town of Kaat...

Roman houses had water supplied via lead pipes. However, these pipes were taxed according to their size, so many houses had just a basic s...

A home movie is a short amateur film or video typically made just to preserve a visual record of family activities, a vacation or a spec...

According to the Dutch constitution Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands, although the parliament and the Dutch government have be...

Speed ramping, or simply "ramping", is a process whereby the capture frame rate of the camera changes over time. For example, if...

Folklore music in Madeira is wide spread and mainly uses local musical instraments such as the Machete, rajao, Brinquinho and Cavaquinho, ...

A movie star (also known as a film star and cinema star) is an actor who is famous for their starring, or leading, roles in motion picture...

Madeira was re-discovered by Portuguese sailors in the service of Henry the Navigator in 1419, and settled after 1420. The archipelago is c...

The Prague Loreto is a remarkable Baroque historic monument, a place of pilgrimage with captivating history. The expansive decorative front...

Panning refers to the horizontal movement or rotation of a film or video camera, or the scanning of a subject horizontally on video.Movie...

There are also many films and photographs from the EYE collection available online. At present, the website covers the introduction of fil...

Saint Petersburg was founded by the Tsar Peter the Great on May 27 [O.S. 16] 1703. From 1713 to 1728 and from 1732 to 1918, Saint Petersbu...

Info: A historical, cultural and culinary landmark, the Grand Hotel Europe has played an important role in the life of St. Petersburg for...

Trevi (Latin: Trebiae) is an ancient town and comune in Umbria, Italy, on the lower flank of Monte Serano overlooking the wide plain of th...

The Golden Bear is the highest prize awarded for the best film at the Berlin International Film Festival. The bear is the heraldic animal o...

A tapeless camcorder is a camcorder that does not use video tape for the digital recording of video productions as 20th century ones did. ...

Liseberg is an amusement park located in Gothenburg, Sweden, that opened in 1923. It is one of the most visited amusement parks in Scandina...

Works modeled on, or inspired by, the Pantheon The Rotunda designed by Thomas Jefferson at the University of Virginia. As the best-pres...

  The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague or FAMU is one of the oldest film schools in the world. Located in Prag...

Film title design is (and always has been) an essential part of any motion picture. It was originally a motionless piece of artwork calle...

Fictional film or narrative film is a film that tells a fictional or fictionalized story, event or narrative. In this style of film, belie...

Hollywood on the Tiber In the late 1940s, Hollywood studios began to shift production abroad to Europe. Italy was, along with Britain,...

a>Over 250 international and Russian movies were filmed in Saint Petersburg. Well over a thousand feature films about tsars, revolution,...

By the end of the 15th century, the city developed rapidly. After the Spaniards conquered Antwerp, many rich Jews fled to Amsterdam. The mo...

Bergen International Film Festival is organised in various sections: Checkpoints, the main program at BIFF, hosted with the Rafto Fou...

A drive-in theater is a form of cinema structure consisting of a large outdoor movie screen, a projection booth, a concession stand and a ...

A bird's-eye view is an elevated view of an object from above, with a perspective as though the observer were a bird, often used in t...

Barrandov Studios is a famous set of film studios in Prague, Czech Republic. It is the largest film studio in the country and one of the l...

  Technicolor is the trademark for a series of color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation , now a division ...

The Basque Country: Euskadi is an autonomous community of northern Spain. The Basque Country or Basque Autonomous Community was granted t...

Super 8 mm film (often simply called Super 8) is a motion picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement of the ol...

Keep your audience interested The most important job of any storyteller is to keep the audience interested, and avoid disorienting them in...

A match is a small stick of wood or strip of cardboard with a solidified mixture of flammable chemicals deposited on one end. When that en...

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

Users nowadays create their own content. There is no longer one truth provided by one source, but instead thereâs an system of truths provi...

In the performing arts, a scenario  from Italian: that which is pinned to the scenery; pronounced  is a synoptical collage of an event or s...

Alsace is one of the great, under-appreciated treasures of the wine world. This pretty enclave of fairytale villages in the lee of the for...

Many compact digital cameras can perform both an optical and a digital zoom. A camera performs an optical zoom by moving the zoom lens so...

Blogging has also introduced opportunities for a new wave of amateur film critics to have their opinions heard. These review blogs may foc...

Although camera movements are often implemented to add excitement to shots, their best use is when new information is revealed. At the beg...

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

In the all night cafe At a quarter past eleven, Same old man is sitting there on his own Looking at the world Over the rim of his tea-cup,...

A Zoom lens allows a camera operator to change their focal length within a shot or quickly between setups for shots. As prime lenses offe...

  Transitions In film or video scene consists of a sequence of shots. Each shot is made from a different perspective and then they are joi...

"Walhalla" means "hall of the dead". "German - Germanic" personalities may be considered for a place in this...

The style blends a modern Art Nouveau style but mirrors some of the architectural influences of nearby buildings such as the Gothic Llotja...

The Black Canyon of the Colorado is the canyon on the Colorado River where Hoover Dam was built. The canyon is located on the Colorado Ri...