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Video editing is the process of editing segments of motion video production footage, special effects and sound recordings in the post-produ...

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dia...

  T his video is 3.30 minutes (25mb)Zaragoza is the capital city of the autonomous region and former kingdom of Aragon in Spain, and is loca...

  A Book Town is a small rural town or village in which second-hand and antiquarian bookshops are concentrated. Most Book Towns have develop...

      A tracking shot is any shot where the camera follows backward, forward or moves alongside the subject being recorded. In cinematograph...

 Home movies are motion pictures made by amateurs, often for viewing by family and friends. When the hobby began, home movies were produc...

; A flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story. Flashbacks are often use...

What is a video transition?Transitions are the mechanism used to change from one shot to the next in a video production. There are a vast ...

Docufiction (or docu-fiction), often confused with docudrama, is the cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction, this term oft...

In 1885 construction of the monument started after a design by Giuseppe Sacconi, winner of an architectural contest. The northern slope of...

The treasure-houses of the Netherlands Institute for Sound en Vision: the collective memory of the Netherlands.The Netherlands Institute v...

Quality of computer images.Once a computer has imported DV footage, it keeps the original source files on the hard disk and creates a seri...

The famous dutch painter Rembrandt painted the civil guards "in action"  in a period when this no convention. Later on the edg...

SHOTSIZEShot size is determined by the framing. (see else There are many possible choices of shot but we can think in terms of five basic...

  Film colorization (American English; or colourisation (British English), or colourization (Canadian English and Oxford English)) is any pr...

Many roadshow presentations of films from the 1950s through to the 1970s were provided with entr'actes that took the form of overture...

This is my very first vacation movie shot op super 8 in 1975 in Switzerland Home videos are priceless records of our personal histories. T...

Trajan's Column is a monument in Rome raised by order of emperor Trajan. It is located in Trajan's Forum, built near the Quirinal ...

    The Avignon Film Festival celebrates French, European and American independent film at the Cinema Vox in Place d'Horloge. There are ...

Situated in west-central Germany, Hesse state borders the German states of (starting in the north and proceeding clockwise) Lower Saxony, ...

The State Hermitage Museum is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest and oldest museums in the world,...

The current image of the Forum Romanum is a result of the changes made by Julius Caesar as pontifex maximus and dictator, which included ...

Rome is called L'Urbe (The City), Caput mundi (head of the world), Città Eterna (eternal city), and Limen Apostolorum (the threshold o...

The Pantheon, from Greek Pantheion, meaning "Temple of all the Gods") is a building in Rome which was originally built as a temp...

General Tips Hold the camera steady. Use a tripod whenever possible. One of the largest factors contributing to professional-quality pict...

Experimental film, experimental cinema or Avant-Garde Cinema is not so much a genre of film as mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-e...

The Piazza del Popolo is one of the most famous places, especially for foreigners, in Rome. The name in modern Italian literally means ...

Hadrian's Tomb The Tomb of Hadrian was erected on the right bank of the Tiber, between 135 and 139. Originally, the mausoleum was a d...

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...