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

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

Whaling is the hunting of whales primarily for meat and oil. Its earliest forms date to at least 3000 BC.[1] Various coastal communities ha...

The Fyra has a poor reputation for reliability. After a month of operations more than 5% of all trains were cancelled and less than 45% of...

Opinion of Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu “I consciously did away with fade-ins and replaced them with the cut. Henceforth, I never used...

Subtitles are derived from either a transcript or screenplay of the dialog or commentary in films, television programs, video games, and t...

Llanes  is a municipality of the province of Asturias, in northern Spain. Stretching for about 30 km along the coast at the extreme east...

Russian Revolution of 1917 In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, the church was ransacked and looted, badly damaging its interior. ...

Stock footage, and similarly, archive footage, library pictures and file footage are film or video footage that is not custom shot for us...

Bad sound: Any seasoned filmmaker will tell you that having good sound is more important than having good images. So, if you're in the...

In the time of Peter the Great, the sea floor just north of the Peterhof site and to the east toward St. Petersburg was too shallow for ...

  A walk through this nice and attractive northern French city The history of AMIENS is enriched by its local traditions and its inhabitan...

  Amiens Cath edral, the tallest of the large, classic, Gothic churches of the 13th century and the largest in France of it s kind, is a Wo...

Since filming is not allowed inside I made use of found footage for the interior Found footage is a filmmaking term which describes a met...

Even Shakespeare used slang. A simple internet search reveals that. It’s a different story that his lingo influenced most of the English l...

an impression of the living conditions of a foreign student Uppsala University (Swedish: Uppsala universitet) is a research university...

A film school may be part of an existing public or private college or university, or part of a privately owned for-profit institution. Dep...

Cinéma vérité (or the closely related direct cinema) was dependent on some technical advances in order to exist: light, quiet and reliable...

Trollywood is the informal name for a film production facility in Trollhättan Municipality, Sweden. Movies shot there include Fucking Åmål...

A slide show may be a presentation of images purely for their own visual interest or artistic value, sometimes unaccompanied by descriptio...

Gaudí's work was influenced by his passions in life: architecture, nature, and religion. Gaudí considered every detail of his creation...

In Japan, Striped, Spotted, Risso's, and Bottlenose dolphins are most commonly hunted, but several other species such as the False Kil...

Park Hilaria is the biggest fun fair in Eindhoven. It takes place for 10 days in the summer every year at the JF Kennedylaan, close to whe...

In film and video, a cutaway shot is the interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else. It is usually...

;St. Petersburg is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Founded in 1703 by Emperor Peter the Great as his "window to the We...

Camera BasicsHolding: Single HandOne basic technique is holding your camera with one hand and supporting that elbow with your free hand. ...

Storytelling is the social and cultural activity of sharing stories, often with improvisation, theatrics, or embellishment. Stories or nar...

"Deze remix is gemaakt in het kader van Celluloid Remix en bevat speciaal geselecteerd materiaal uit de collectie van het Filmmuseu...

The illusions or tricks of the eye used in the film, television, theatre, video game, and simulator industries to simulate the imagined ev...

The Camino de Santiago also known by the English names Way of St. James, St. James's Way, St. James's Path, St. James's Trail...

A flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached. Flashbacks are oft...

The fortress was established by Peter the Great on May 16 1703 on small Hare Island by the north bank of the Neva River, the last upstream...

  Fairy tales have been enacted dramatically; records exist of this in commedia dell'arte, and later in pantomime. Unlike oral and liter...

Aerial shots are usually done with a crane or with a camera attached to a special helicopter to view large landscapes. This sort of shot...

We've had the vinyl revival - now physical film is making a comeback. The Kodak Super 8 camera puts a digital spin on a 52-year-old fo...

  Online editing is the process of reassembling the edit to full resolution video after an offline edit has been performed. It is done in th...

Films can also be classified by the setting, theme, topic, mood, format, target audience or budget. The setting is the milieu or environme...

Richard Linklater “There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything’s a story, everyone’s got...

Puente La Reina (Spanish meaning literally the "bridge of the Queen"; Basque: Gares) is a town and municipality located in the a...

Turenne is a commune in the Corrèze department in the Limousin region in central France. It is characterised by its height and unique posi...

In the field of special effects a miniature effect is a special effect generated by the use of scale models. Scale models are often combin...

  A compilation film, or compilation movie is a film composed of scenes and shots taken from two or more prior films and edited together so ...

A nature documentary is a documentary film about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures, usually concentrating on film taken...

In filmmaking, a pitch is a concise verbal (and sometimes visual) presentation of an idea for a film or TV series generally made by a screen...

A Steadicam is a stabilizing mount for a motion picture camera, which mechanically isolates the operator's movement from the camera, a...

Color balance is the global adjustment of the intensities of the colors  An important goal of this adjustment is to render specific color...

Dubbing is the post-production process of recording and replacing voices on a motion picture or television soundtrack subsequent to the or...