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

What makes Amsterdam so attractive is the 17th century historical atmosphere combined with the mentality of a modern metropolis creating a ...

Volendam is a popular tourist attraction in the Netherlands, well known for its old fishing boats and the traditional clothing still worn ...

Humour is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoral m...

Ice sculpture is a form of sculpture that uses ice as the raw material. Sculptures from ice can be abstract or realistic and can be functio...

Arles and the Rhone, the people of Arles and their river, a history of love and mistrust depending on the water’s mood. In the 19th centu...

Music videos use a wide range of styles of film making techniques, including animation, live action filming, documentaries, and non-narrati...

The movie is well known as the inspiration for "Downfall parodies". One scene in the film, in which Hitler launches into a furiou...

A hidden camera is a still or video camera used to film people without their knowledge. The camera is "hidden" because it is e...

A fishing weir, or fish weir, is an obstruction placed in tidal waters or wholly or partially across a river, which is designed to hinder t...

The introduction of the Beta VCR in 1975 and VHS in 1976 heralded a revolution in the making of home movies. Videocassettes were extremely...

Scene from “Alleman” Haanstra was born in the town of Holten and became a professional Dutch documentary film maker in 1947. He won intern...

9.5 mm film is an amateur film format introduced by Pathé Frères in 1922 as part of the Pathé Baby amateur film system. It was conceived i...

In Holland, carnival is a holiday mainly celebrated in the south of the country. The provinces Limburg and Noord-Brabant are the predominan...

The term silent film is therefore a retronym—that is, a term created to distinguish something retroactively. The early films with sound, s...

Willem van Oranje (1934) was the first Dutch talking feature. It was shot at the Philips Studios ('Philiwood') in Eindhoven, using...

Independent filmmakers have also pressed low-cost consumer and prosumer cameras into service for digital filmmaking. Though image quality i...

A sketch is a rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not usually intended as a finished work. A sketch may serve a number of purposes: ...

A parade (also called march or marchpast) is a procession of people, usually organized along a street, often in costume, and often accomp...

Dad's Army was voted into fourth place in a BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom. It had been placed 13th in a list of the 100 G...

. Music videos use a wide range of styles of film making techniques, including animation, live action filming, documentaries, and non-...

It’s already hard enough to part with a quarter-of-a-million dollars to buy a Ferrari 458 Italia , but can you imagine the rationale behin...

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

  In film, a remake is a motion picture based on a film produced earlier. The term remake can refer to everything on the spectrum of reused ...

Carnival is not only a feast of eating and drinking, but also serves as social role reversal feast which allows people to behave outside ...

The history of Mexican cinema goes back to the ending of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, when several enthusiasts of the ne...

Bolex is a Swiss company that manufactures motion picture cameras and lenses, the most notable products of which are in the 16 mm and Super...

A representation of additive color mixing. Projection of primary color lights on a screen shows secondary colors where two overlap; the com...

The Elfstedentocht, is an almost 200 kilometres (120 mi) long skating tour which is held both as a speed skating match (with 300 contestant...

Amateur Film is the low-budget hobbyist art of film practiced for passion and enjoyment and not for business purposes Amateur films were u...

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...