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

Before the advent of movies, the term "star" was already in use in the milieu of the Music Halls, at the time the most popular fo...

• Light Quality: The hardness or softness of the light. Soft light is the standard because it's more flattering and aesthetically plea...

A parody , in current use, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialize an original work, its subject, author, style, or ...

The Dutch Waterline was a Dutch defense line on the basis of Inundierung. In the defense case, the land could be flooded as 40 inches high...

  Students of the university of Eindhoven have build this iglo in Finland The Eindhoven University of Technology (Dutch: Technische Univ...

A newsreel is a form of short documentary film prevalent in the first half of the twentieth century, regularly released in a public present...

Animation is the process of creating a continuous motion and shape change illusion by means of the rapid display of a sequence of static i...

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 wo...

A number of celebrities, have popularized wigs.. They may also be worn for fun as part of fancy dress (costume wearing), when they can be ...

This documentary tells of the struggles during the Spanish Civil War. It deals with the war at different levels: from the political level,...

  The primary difficulty in underwater camera usage is, of course, sealing the camera from water at high pressure, while maintaining the abi...

Casa Batlló, built between 1904 and 1906 in the heart of the city, is the most emblematic work of the brilliant Catalan architect. Gaudí...

Casa Milà , better known as La Pedrera , meaning the 'The Quarry'), is a building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí a...

New Year's Day is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as the Julian calendar use...

A Christmas market, also known as Weihnachtsmarkt, is a street market associated with the celebration of Christmas during the four weeks of...

Improvisation is a creative process which can be spoken, written, or composed without prior preparation. Improvisation, also called extemp...

The Netherlands is a geographically low-lying country, with about 20% of its area and 21% of its population located below sea level, and 5...

Demonstrations are sometimes spontaneous gatherings, but are also utilized as a tactical choice by movements. They often form part of a la...

I was in my second year of age when this event took place. It is hardly if i recognise the people in the film which is caused by the fact...

With advancements in video technology, aerial video is becoming more popular. Orthogonal video is shot from aircraft mapping pipelines, ...

Sound effects (or audio effects) are artificially created or enhanced sounds, or sound processes used to emphasize artistic or other conte...

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 digit...

Panoramic photography is a technique of photography , using specialized equipment or software, that captures images with elongated fields...

The Film Heritage department of the Swedish Film Institute in Stockholm has its origins in the foundation of the Swedish Film Society, whic...

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

Spetters is a Dutch film released in 1980 directed by Paul Verhoeven. Spetters led to protests about the manner in which Verhoeven portray...

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 ...