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

Modern storytelling has a broad purview. In addition to its traditional forms (fairytales, folktales, mythology, legends, fables etc.), it ...

“I noticed so often that when people take their camera, they simply hold it at eye level, shoulder level or whatever is comfortable and t...

Visingsö is an island in the southern half of the lake Vättern in Sweden. Visingsö lies 30 km north of the city Jönköping and 6 km west o...

Legoland Billund, the original Legoland park, opened on June 7, 1968 in Billund, Denmark. The park is located next to the original Lego fac...

The construction of the Oosterschelde barrier was such a large-scaled and complex project, that a whole website could easily be devoted t...

Ernst Ingmar Bergman 14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish director, writer, and producer who worked in film, television, and theat...

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

A play is form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of dialogue or singing between characters, intended for theatrica...

Denmark has been producing films since 1897 and since the 1980s has maintained a steady stream of product due largely to funding by the sta...

Open-source' is a term originally used to describe the development process of software. In open-source software development, the progra...

Rocamadour is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France. It lies in the former province of Quercy. Rocamadour has attract...

A filming location is a place where some or all of a film or television series is produced, in addition to or instead of using sets constr...

When using the sky as a background, make sure the subject is frontlighted or sidelighted if you're using a camera with automatic expos...

In the 1950s, playing home movies became popular in the United States as Kodak 8 mm film projector equipment became more affordable. The de...

The atmosphere of the circus has served as a dramatic setting for many musicians and writers. The famous circus theme song is actually c...

The history of film began in the late 1880s with the invention of the first movie camera. Motion pictures were initially exhibited as a car...

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

A slide is a specially mounted individual transparency intended for projection onto a screen using a slide projector. This allows the phot...

NO SOUND A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. The silent film era lasted fro...

It is mind-blowing to think how far we’ve come since the introduction of motion films and television in the early 1900s. The Internet has ...

Modern usage In July 1970, management of the Church passed to Saint Isaac's Cathedral and it was used as a museum. The proceeds fro...

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

Fortifications of Vauban Fortifications of Vauban consists of 12 groups of fortified buildings and sites along the western, northern and ...

By the 19th century Vichy was a station à la mode, attended by many celebrities. But the stays of Napoleon III between 1861 and 1866 were ...

A filming location is a place where some or all of a film or television series is produced, in addition to or instead of using sets con...

A webcast is a media presentation distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute a single content source to...

A stunt is an unusual and difficult physical feat or an act requiring a special skill, performed for artistic purposes usually on televisi...

Though the expense involved in making movies almost immediately led film production to concentrate under the auspices of standing producti...

  In production, the film is created and shot. In this phase, it is key to keep planning ahead of the daily shoot. The primary aim is to sti...

Storyboards are graphic organizers such as a series of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of previsualizing a m...

The term "low key" is used in cinematography to refer to any scene with a high lighting ratio, especially if there is a predomin...

The embouchure is the use of facial muscles and the shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece of a wind instrument. The proper embouchure a...

Once upon a time the even Philips Factories were involved in filmmaking . See: Willem van Orange on this site. The film industry or moti...

Elephants Dream (code-named Orange) is a computer-generated short film that was produced almost completely using the free software 3D suit...

A filming location is a place where some or all of a film or television series is produced, in addition to or instead of using sets constr...

A close-up or closeup in filmmaking, television production, still photography, and the comic strip medium is a type of shot that tightly f...

Remastering Remastering is the process of making a new master for an album, movie, or any other creation. It tends to refer to the proces...

The ease and accuracy of tape editing, as compared to the cumbersome disc-to-disc editing procedures previously in some limited use, toget...

A road movie is a film genre in which the main characters leave home to travel from place to place, typically altering the perspective fr...

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

The introduction of Kodachrome color reversal film for 16 mm in 1935, and for 8 mm in 1936, facilitated home color cinematography. The avai...

Mainstream media (MSM) is a term and abbreviation used to refer collectively to the various large mass news media that influence many peop...

The phrase "lost film" can also be used in a literal sense for instances where footage of deleted scenes, unedited, and alternat...

A film score (also sometimes called background score, background music, movie soundtrack, film music or incidental music) is original musi...

A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or local...

  filmarchives online provides easy and free access to catalogue information of film archives from all over Europe. Via the multi-lingual we...

This film was made with a simple super 8 fixed focus camera by my daughter when she was 11/12 years old. With the transformation to digita...

The city is famous for its nickname "The Green City" (25m2 - 270sqft of park/garden/playground per inhabitant)Webring:independen...