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

Huesca celebrates its most important annual festival in August: the festival (or fiesta) of San Lorenzo (Saint Lawrence), a native of Huesc...

Video8 had one major advantage over the full-size competition. Thanks to their compact-form factor, Video8 camcorders were small enough to ...

St. Vitus Cathedral (Czech: Katedrála svatého Víta) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Prague, and the seat of the Archbishop of Prague. The...

CUTAWAYS In a cutaway, you simply leave the main action for a brief scene to film something else that's related to your movie. In the...

On the banks of the Neva . The Neva is the main waterway of Petersburg and the town is situated along its banks and across the islands of...

Foot Of The Pyrenees 70 mm film (or 65 mm film) is a wide high-resolution film gauge for still and motion picture photography, with high...

A hidden camera is a still or video camera used to film people without their knowledge. The camera is "hidden" because it is eit...

     In 1965, Super-8 film was released and was quickly adopted by the amateur film-maker. It featured a better quality image, and was easie...

Chinese Graveyard The Cinema of China is one of three distinct historical threads of Chinese-language cinema together with the Cinema ...

Historical records of events have been made for thousands of years in one form or another. Amongst the earliest are cave painting, runic al...

Romulus and Remus are the twin brothers and central characters of Rome's foundation myth. Romulus wants to found the new city on the ...

The monastery grounds contain two baroque churches, designed by father and son Trezzini and built in 1717–22 and 1742–50, respectively; a...

Persistence of vision is still the accepted term for this phenomenon in the realm of cinema history and theory. In the early days of film i...

it simply means that its your home which is your dream place... the size of a house doesn't decide anything.. but it's the people...

The Ancient Greek philosopher Empedocles held that water is one of the four classical elements along with fire, earth and air, and was reg...

The name "film" originates from the fact that photographic film (also called film stock) has historically been the medium for rec...

Between land and sky, close to 640 acres of dunes, forests and marshes at the heart of the Nature Reserve, the Parc du Marquenterre is a ...

A home movie is part of the motion picture filmmaking process made by amateurs, often for viewing by family and friends. When the hobby beg...

A slide show is a presentation of a series of still images on a projection screen or electronic display device, typically in a prearranged...

Lighting Light is necessary to create an image exposure on a frame of film or on a digital target (CCD, etc.). The art of lighting for c...

Filmmaking – process of making a film. Filmmaking involves a number of discrete stages including an initial story, idea, or commission, th...

Music videos use a wide range of styles of film making techniques, including animation, live action filming, documentaries, and non-narrat...

A film studio (also known as movie studio or simply studio) is a major entertainment company or motion picture company that has its own p...

World cinema is a term used primarily in English language speaking countries to refer to the films and film industries of non-English spea...

After a catastrophic flood in 1957 which devastated the city of Valencia, the river was divided in two at the western city limits (Plan Su...

One of the famous old German university towns, and archiepiscopal seat, Freiburg was incorporated in the early twelfth century and develo...

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

Madeira was claimed by Portuguese sailors in the service of Henry the Navigator in 1419, and settled after 1420. The archipelago is consid...

Pikes Peak (originally Pike's Peak) is a mountain in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains within Pike National Forest, 10 mi (16 km) ...

  Schrader used his new project, a 10-episode web series called Life on the Other Side inspired by Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, to disc...

Rule of thirds A good guideline for composing your shots is the rule of thirds. This means that you should imagine your frame (the image y...

In photography, panning refers to the rotation in a horizontal plane of a still camera or video camera. Panning a camera results in a moti...

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...

In 1888, Van Gogh decided to go south to Arles where he hoped his friends would join him and help found a school of art. At The Yellow Ho...

The antique market of Perugia (Italy)Perugia today hosts two main universities, the Universiti degli Studi and the Foreigners University(...

Federico Fellini “A person’s clothes make up part of his character. I draw the character with his costume. I suggest it to the stylists ...

The cinema of Russia began in the Russian Empire, widely developed in the Soviet Union and in the years following its dissolution, the Russ...

The pass is located on the Continental Divide at the southern end of the Sawatch Range along the border between Gunnison and Chaffee count...

A warm welcome to Värmland generously provides a never-ending supply of experiences where you will encounter a kingdom of adventure in th...

  Valencia  is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third largest city in Spain after Madrid and Barcelona, with arou...

About Film in the Netherlands: EYE.nl This website sketches a picture of the developments in Dutch film history beginning with the first f...

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,...

A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Acad...

Madeira is a fortified wine, produced in the Madeira Islands; varieties may be sweet or dry. It has a history dating back to the Age of E...

The present state of North Rhine-Westphalia was created by the British after World War II from the former Prussian province of Westphalia,...

Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politicall...

Modern video cameras have numerous designs and uses, not all of which resemble the early television cameras. Professional video cameras, s...

A soundtrack, also written sound track, can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, telev...

Editing is one of the most powerful filmmaking tools. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if you want to make movies and tell stori...

Sports movies have been made since the era of silent films, such as the 1915 film The Champion starring Charlie Chaplin. Films in this genr...