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

Museum Willet-Holthuysen is a museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on the Herengracht canal. It is the only fully furnished canalside patr...

The collection of Jean Desmet (1875-1956) is held by EYE Film Institute Netherlands (formerly the Filmmuseum) since 1957. The vast collect...

The history of film (known variously as film, motion pictures or movies) began in the late 1880s with the invention of the first movie cam...

A 3D is a motion picture that enhances the illusion of depth perception. Derived from stereoscopic photography, a regular motion picture ...

House is uptempo music for dancing, although by modern dance-music standards it is mid-tempo, generally ranging between 118 and 135 bpm. T...

A cinema organ is a pipe organ originally designed specifically for imitation of an orchestra. Theatre organs took the place of the orch...

EYE Film Institute Netherlands is located in the Overhoeks neighborhood of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It includes a cinematography muse...

A person who has a lot of common sense and knows what's going on in the world. This person knows what every type of person has to deal...

HOW DO YOU SAY GOODNIGHT? ...when the world is whirring at such a fast pace? Scientific breakthroughs, feats of modern invention, and do...

The Steam Carousel dating from 1895, was bought by Efteling from Hendrik Janvier, who had toured with it to local funfairs, and has been o...

Méliès achieves this by a simple trompe l’oeil effect: the background remains static throughout, but the superimposed element (Méliès’ own...

Sweden 1913 Found footage of 100 year ago with newly added music. A film from the early days of filmmaking. Just one (long) shot with n...

Close-up shots do not show the subject in the broad context of its surroundings. If overused, close-ups may leave viewers uncertain ...

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

A biographical film, is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people. They differ from films “based on a true story” or “...

A viral video is a video that becomes popular through the process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites, social me...

Hortus Botanicus is now one of the attractions of the Dutch capital for both Dutch and International visitors. The collection is famous fo...

Tradition holds that Saint Nicholas (Sinterklaas) and his aides arrive each year by steam boat from Spain in mid November. Black Peter carr...

The One Minutes: 25 On the occasion of 25 years IDFA festival the One Minutes Foundation invited filmmakers from around the world to make ...

Rembrandt van Rijn was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art ...

5 Broken Cameras is a 2011 documentary film co-directed by Palestinian Emad Burnat and Israeli Guy Davidi. 5 Broken Cameras is a first-han...

History of Quedlinburg goes back up to the 10th century! It was the capital of the East Franconian German Empire at the time of the Saxo...

A teleplay is a play for television, a comedy or drama written or adapted for television. The term surfaced during the 1950s with wide us...

By visiting the museum’s Rijksstudio, art lovers can create their own “sets” of Rijksmuseum works. Sets can include images of just flowers ...

Goslar is a medieval town in Lower Saxony and serves as a regional hub to the wider Harz area. It lies at the foot of the Harz Mountains . ...

Onze 'seamail' aan Mark Zuckerburg ter gelegenheid van onze Facebookpagina www.facebook.com/hetscheepvaartmuseum. Mark, did you kn...

  The Cinematograph Films (Animals) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom It defines a criminal offence of distributing or exhib...

Jeronymites Monastery (Mosteiro dos Jerónimos,) is located near the shore of the parish of Belém, in the municipality of Lisbon, Portugal. ...

Story The fainthearted cigar trader Ducker keeps himself quiet during World War II. That changes when parachutist Dorbeck lands in his bac...

The town is located north of the Harz mountains approximatively 123 meters above sea level. The nearest mountains reach 181 meters above se...

What is an orphan film? Narrowly defined, it's a motion picture abandoned by its owner or caretaker. More generally, the term refers ...

A trailer or preview is an advertisement or a commercial for a feature film that will be exhibited in the future at a cinema. The term ...

Notre-Dame de Reims (Our Lady of Reims) is the seat of the Archdiocese of Reims, where the kings of France were crowned. The cathedral rep...

One can think of digital storytelling as the modern extension of the ancient art of storytelling, now interwoven with digitized still and...

Sights The German Timber-Frame Road, which covers Germany from north to south, joins unique landscapes, historic sites and carefully rest...

Fellinis Fantastic TV Commercials In 1984, when he was 64 years old, Fellini agreed to make a miniature film featuring Campari, the fam...

Video compression is needed to change our large video files into smaller video files so that they can be shared more easily and viewed on...

The Rijksmuseum Lets You Remix Its Art The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is one of the grand European museums. Home to many of the Dutch m...

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 bird's-eye view is an elevated view of an object from above, with a perspective as though the observer were a bird, often used in the...

Marten Toonder may well go down in history as the most important Dutch author of comics. Undoubtedly, there is no comic artist who has put ...

The Rijksmuseum (English: State Museum) is a Dutch national museum dedicated to arts and history in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The muse...

With the arrival of commercially viable charge-coupled device (CCD) technology in the 1980s, first the pickup video-tubes were replaced wi...

Creative Commons just reached an exciting milestone. As of this week, there are four million Creative Commons–licensed videos on YouTube. T...

The Prelinger Archives is a collection of films relating to U.S. cultural history, the evolution of the American landscape, everyday life...

Duderstadt 180m, in the district Goettingen in southern Lower Saxony. Panoramic over the rooves of the town. Construction of the Rathau...

Special effects are traditionally divided into the categories of optical effects and mechanical effects. With the emergence of digital fil...

The film restoration, movement is an ongoing project among film historians, archivists, museums, cinematheques, and non-profit organization...

One can think of digital storytelling as the modern extension of the ancient art of storytelling, now interwoven with digitized still and...