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

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. The silent film era lasted from 1895 to 1...

A feature film is a film (also called a movie or motion picture) with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole fi...

  The Cinema of Italy comprises the films made within Italy, or by Italian directors. Since the development of the Italian film industry in...

A truly mind-blowing confection of some of Europe's most awesome architecture, the City of Arts and Science in Valencia is fast becomi...

The Water Music is a collection of orchestral movements, often published as three suites, composed by George Frideric Handel. It premiered...

The Cloppenburg Museum Village and Lower Saxon Open-Air Museum (German: Museumsdorf Cloppenburg – Niedersächsisches Freilichtmuseum) locat...

A houseboat (different from boathouse, which is a shed for storing boats) is a boat that has been designed or modified to be used primar...

In motion pictures, an overture is a piece of music setting the mood for the film before the opening credits start

A part of a documentary i made a reconstruction of the bombing of this German city. It is widely considered that the bombing of Dresden w...

("Enchanted City") lies in a 20 sq. km. nature reserve, 36 km. north of Cuenca in the Jucar valley, southeast of Madrid, and res...

The 1953 North Sea flood was a major flood caused by a heavy storm, that occurred on the night of Saturday, 31 January 1953 and morning o...

In this setup, each of the various shots and camera angles are taken using the same camera, which is moved and reset to get each shot or n...

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe is a landscape park in Kassel, Germany. The area of the park is 2.4 square kilometres (590 acres), making it the lar...

Prague specifics * Zizkov - ex-working class district of Prague. It's the contemporary Czech center of Prague in the sense that the Old...

Josefov is an area of central Prague, today Czech Republic, formerly the Jewish ghetto of the town. The quarter is often represented by th...

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated on the Vltava river in central Bohemia, it is home to approximately ...

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...