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

The international organization for amateur film makers is UNICA (Union International du Cinema Non Professionel); in the United States the ...

Popular practices include wearing masks and costumes, overturning social conventions, dancing, sports competitions, parades, etc. Similar e...

A float is a decorated platform, either built on a vehicle like a truck or towed behind one, which is a component of many festive para...

Johan de Witt or Jan de Witt, was a key figure in Dutch politics in the mid-17th century, when its flourishing sea trade in a period of gl...

A film festival is an extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. Mor...

The Boves The Boves, a well-preserved underground network of galleries 10 meters beneath the city, was built in the 10th century and can n...

Buildings of the Amsterdam School are characterized by brick construction with complicated masonry with a rounded or organic appearance,...

Homage is a show or demonstration of respect or dedication to someone or something, sometimes by simple declaration but often by some more...

Independent filmmakers have also pressed low-cost consumer and prosumer cameras into service for digital filmmaking. Though image quality i...

The Poble Espanyol "Spanish Town" is an open-air architectural museum, located on the mountain of Montjuïc, in the city of Barc...

Film speed is the measure of a photographic film's sensitivity to light, determined by sensitometry and measured on various numerical s...

  A natural history film or wildlife film is a documentary film about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures, usually concent...

A 3-D (three-dimensional) film or S3D (stereoscopic 3D) film is a motion picture that enhances the illusion of depth perception. Derive...

The Super 8 plastic cartridge is probably the fastest loading film system ever developed, as it can be loaded into the Super 8 camera in l...

Potpourri is a kind of musical form structured as ABCDEF..., the same as medley or, sometimes, fantasia. It is often used in light, easy-g...

Amateur film is the low-budget hobbyist art of film practiced for passion and enjoyment and not for business purposes. The international...

Digital Video Effects, commonly called DVEs, are visual effects that provide comprehensive video image manipulation, in the same form as o...

German production companies have been quite commonly involved in expensive French and Italian productions from Spaghetti Westerns to Fren...

A costume drama or period drama is a period piece in which elaborate costumes, sets and properties are featured in order to capture th...

Swedish cinema is known as producing many critically acclaimed movies, and during the 20th century was the most prominent of Scandinavia. T...

Amateur usage of Super 8 has been largely replaced by video, but the format is often used by professionals in music videos, TV commercials...

Swedish filmmaking rose to international prominence when Svenska Biografteatern moved from Kristianstad to Lidingö in 1911. During the ne...

A tapeless camcorder is a camcorder that does not use videotape to store its data. Common alternatives include flash memory (such as Secur...

Barcelona: La Seu Whilst an important contributor to Western art (particularly influenced by Italy and France, especially during the Ba...

A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features European folkloric fantasy characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, tr...

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...

Most large museums are located in major cities throughout the world and more local ones exist in smaller cities, towns and even the count...

Muiden is a pleasant town in the Netherlands of approximately 4000 people, on the shores of the IJmeer, at the mouth of the Vecht river. ...

Film can be described as all of the following: One of the visual arts – visual arts is a class of art forms, including painting, sculptur...

Underwater Filming Pinewood has limitless options for filming in or around water, the studios boast: The only permanently filled under...

On April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, Guernica was the scene of the Bombing of Guernica by the Condor Legion of Nazi Germany...

"Bread and circuses" is a metaphors for a superficial means of appeasement. In the case of politics, the phrase is used to descri...

Holiday home Anita is located in the small village of Debodes, on the foot of Picos de Europe. 18 km south is the famous coastal city Llane...

Mardi Gras also called Shrove Tuesday, or Fat Tuesday, in English, refers to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after th...

town hall The Royal Palace was built in the seventeenth century as the Town Hall of Amsterdam, after a design by Jacob van Campen. It'...

Le Puy-en-Velay's most striking attraction is the Cathédrale Notre-Dame du Puy, dating chiefly from the first half of the 12th century...

Logroño is a city rich in history and traditions which have been preserved since the Middle Ages. The Pilgrim's Route to Santiago de Co...

Film is considered to have its own language. James Monaco wrote a classic text on film theory titled "How to Read a Film". Direct...

There is no better way to realize how rich and complex the world is than by watching movies that were hits in their home countries but d...

Camping is an outdoor recreational activity. The participants (known as campers) leave urban areas, their home region, or civilization and...

Film critics and film studies scholars typically define an "art film" using a "...canon of films and those formal qualiti...

Hostels in popular culture Motion pictures have portrayed hostels in two ways: as fun places for young people to stay, or alternatively...

is a rural, hilly area spreading across most of the south-eastern part of North Rhine- Westphalia, in parts heavily forested and, apart fr...

Santa Claus, is a mythical figure with legendary, historical and folkloric origins who, in many Western cultures, is said to bring gifts t...

Hadrian's Wall (Latin: Vallum Aelium) was a defensive fortification in Roman Britain, begun in AD 122 during the rule of emperor Hadr...

A film release is the authorization by the owner of a completed film to a public exhibition of the film. The exhibition may be in theatr...

Spinning is the process of creating yarn (or thread, rope, cable) from various raw fiber materials. Separate fibers are twisted together t...

" Screen direction" is a term used in motion picture editing and refers to an underlying concept of cinematic grammar which invol...

Visual effects (commonly shortened to Visual F/X or VFX) are the various processes by which imagery is created and/or manipulated outside t...

Blackhawk Films, from the 1950s through the early 1980s, marketed motion pictures on 16mm, 8mm and Super 8 film. Most were vintage one- or...