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

A light beam or beam of light is a directional projection of light energy radiating from a light source. Sunlight forms a light beam (a su...

. In motion pictures the manipulation of time and space is a considerable contributing factor to the narrative storytelling tools. Film...

This is social evolution. Copy, transform and combine. It's who we are, it’s how we live, and of course, it's how we create. Our n...

The Zwarte Pieten have roughly the same relationship to the Dutch Saint Nicolas that the elves have to America's Santa Claus. Over the ...

Rob's Prop Shop was founded in 1986 in Amsterdam by Rob Hillenbrink, after working 15 years at the Dutch Opera Company. In 2002 we mov...

The theatre organ or cinema organ was designed to accompany silent movies. Like a symphonic organ, it is made to replace an orchestra. How...

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Monastery of Montserrat became a cultural centre of the first order. The Montserrat...

The history of Eisenach is linked with the Wartburg Castle, which was built according to legend in 1067. There were at least three settlem...

WITNESS empowers human rights defenders to use video to fight injustice, and to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools th...

Amateur films were usually shot on 16 mm film or on 8 mm film (either Double-8 or Super-8) until the advent of cheap video cameras or digi...

Waterlooplein is a square in the centre of Amsterdam in the Netherlands , near the Amstel river. The daily flea market on the square is...

About The Film Fest Gent has become a not-to-be-missed event on the Flemish and international cultural scene. It owes its success to event...

The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) is an international professional association of online film journalists, historians and scholars wh...

Packaged movies Although the 8 mm format was originally intended for creating amateur films, condensed versions of popular cinema releases...

                                             This is the trailer of the final documenary running now in the Dutch theaters

After the 2nd World war, films of the acclaimed documentary film directors Bert Haanstra and Herman van der Horst dominated Dutch cinema. T...

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 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is an annual film festival held in various cinemas in Rotterdam, Netherlands held at the e...

A sound bite (alternatively written as sound byte[1]) is a short clip of speech or music extracted from a longer piece of audio, often use...

A film school is any educational institution dedicated to teaching aspects of filmmaking , including such subjects as film production , f...

One Day in September is a 1999 documentary film directed by Kevin Macdonald examining the 5 September 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes a...

Renaissance intermezzo The Renaissance intermezzo was also called the intermedio. It was a masque-like dramatic piece with music, which w...

One of a video editor’s main decisions is whether to actually include a shot/scene or not. Does the scene/shot add to the story or does ...

In the early 20th century, Russian filmmaker and theorist Lev Kuleshov discovered that a single shot of an actor with an ambiguous express...

  The essentials of audio production in the video world. First is the audio delivery format. In the old days, we had to produce separate mo...

The mountain of Montserrat has been of religious significance since pre-Christian times, when the Romans built a temple to honor Venus. B...

A trailer (also known as a preview or coming attraction) is an advertisement or a commercial for a feature film that will be exhibited in...

What is a Sequence? When you take a wide shot, put it together with three medium-shots and two close-ups in order to show that someone ma...

In several shorts and in long documentaries like Alleman / The Human Dutch and Stem van het water / The Voice of the Water Haansta reflect...

Film scores encompass an enormous variety of styles of music, depending on the nature of the films they accompany. The majority of scores ...

A television film (also known as a TV film; television movie; TV movie; telefilm; telemovie; made-for-television film; direct-to-TV film; ...

Erotic film is less sexually explicit than hardcore pornography. The visual representation of genitalia (full nudity) is increasingly in fi...

Commedia dell'arte is a form of theater characterized by masked "types" which began in Italy in the 16th century and was res...

  Science fiction can trace its roots back to ancient mythology, and is related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction, and contains many...

TRAILER AND FILM " welcome in our beighbourhood" see else on this site The TV image is composed of many lines of pixels. Ideal...

The IMDB for Film and TV lists over 280 feature films, tv specials and series where Denver served as the location. Given the varied and s...

William Tell Set in the early 14th century (traditional date 1307, during the rule of Albert of Habsburg), the first written records of t...

Today the video camera is as commonplace as the television set. In the early years of cinema it was hard to distinguish amateur from profes...

The Western is a genre of various arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling ...

The standard 8 mm film format was developed by the Eastman Kodak company during the Great Depression and released on the market in 1932 to ...

A replica is a copying closely resembling the original concerning its shape and appearance. An inverted replica complements the original ...

The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration was an era beginning at the end of the 19th century and closing with Shackleton's Imperial Tran...

Dubbing, mixing, or re-recording is a post-production process used in filmmaking and video production in which additional or supplementary...

Probably the easiest one to control is the focal length of the lens being used. Focal length refers to whether it is a wide angle or teleph...

A spa town (also called a bathing-place or simply a spa) is a specialized resort town situated around a mineral spa (a developed mineral s...

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

Tension and laughing. Samples of very good editing of amateur films. With the pursuit please marks and listen to the music- effects. Bewa...

The Dutch have somehting special with the Tour de France. They had two winners; Jansen and Zoetemalk and also two of the most spectacular f...