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

the Beemster is the first so-called polder in the Netherlands that was reclaimed from a lake, the water being extracted out of the lake b...

Tomb of the Lovers of Teruel Since many people came across Spain to see the Lovers of Teruel, the mummies were exhumed and put into two n...

A Projectionist is a person who operates a movie projector. In the strict sense of the term this means any film projector and therefore cou...

In cinematography, night-for-night filming is the name given to the practice of actually filming night scenes at night. In the early days ...

India is the world's largest producer of films. In 2009, India produced a total of 2961 films on celluloid, that include a staggering f...

Carré is closely connected to the family Carré. This family group gave their first performances by the end of the 18th century and in 1863 ...

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay), Maharashtr...

  Directed by @tiffanyshlain  THE CLOUDFILMMAKING MANIFESTO by Tiffany Shlain, Sawyer Steele, and The Moxie Institute 5 Principles of...

MAKE THE MAGIC HAPPEN The largest film studio complex in the world as certified by Guinness World Records, provides comprehensive and adva...

The Ganges is a trans-boundary river of India and Bangladesh. The 2,525 km river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Utt...

Cloud Filmmaking Cloud Filmmaking: A new genre of filmmaking that uses the cloud to collaboratively create films, and then uses the cloud ...

In promotion and of advertising, a testimonial or show consists of a person's written or spoken statement extolling the virtue of some ...

These days, it seems that every man and his dog wants to run a film festival, which is fantastic in many ways, not least because it provid...

In filmmaking and video production, a bird's-eye shot refers to a shot looking directly down on the subject. The perspective is very fo...

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

Wildlive-filming making A natural history film or wildlife film is a documentary film about animals, plants, or other non-human living ...

Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is the application of computer graphics to create or contribute to images in art, printed media, video ...

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

A film storyboard is essentially a large comic of the film or some section of the film produced beforehand to help film directors, cinemato...

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. ...