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

Entre-deux-mers (literally, between two seas) is a dry white wine made in Bordeaux. The appellation is one of the largest in the Bordeaux ...

Optical theory An article published in 2004, by Margaret S. Livingstone, professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, suggests th...

  Movies filmed in Scotland On top of the works created by Scottish directors, there have been many successful non-Scottish films shot in...

The 30° rule is a basic film editing guideline that states the camera should move at least 30° between shots of the same subject. This chan...

  A sports film is a film genre in which any particular sport plays a prominent role in the film's plot or acts as its central theme. It...

The first films seen in the Russian Empire were brought in by the Lumière brothers, who exhibited films in Moscow and St. Petersburg in Ma...

The film editor works with the raw footage, selecting shots and combining them into sequences to create a finished motion picture. Film ed...

The 1922 discovery by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon of Tutankhamun's nearly intact tomb received worldwide press coverage. It spark...

An open content film is much like an independent film, but it is produced through open collaborations; its source material is available und...

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...

Slide shows originally consisted of a series of individual photographic slides projected onto a screen with a slide projector. When referr...

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...