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

Not only a dark chapter for the Dutch. Slavery is a dark chapter in US history as well.. And surprisingly few Americans seem to know the ...

What’s in a tittle? Film title design is (and always has been) an essential part of any motion picture. It was originally a motionless pi...

A black en white amateur film unknown source. Historic images of zeppelin and seaplanes.

Some footage from a vacations-film which was unused so i put it into a iMovie trailer. The story is authentic . In fact my wife burned h...

An island of perpetual springtime, Pathe Pictorial shows us life in Las Palmas - locals dancing in traditional dress, girls doing needlew...

Helicopter footage from VPRO broadcast freely available online Music from "A Fledgling Firework" by Crepusculum In filmmaki...

Action film is a film genre in which one or more heroes are thrust into a series of challenges that typically include physical feats, exte...

The rayon Etten-Hoeven-Rucphen is next to Emmen the worst emergency area in Netherlands. Within that territory lies the village Sint Wille...

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes.  Modern music v...

Aerial photography is the taking of photographs of the ground from an elevated position. The term usually refers to images in which the ca...

For the common shaky video clip using video stabilization will impressively make the annoying camera movement disappear. iMovie does this ...

Behind the Screen is a 1916 short silent film written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin, and also starring Eric Campbell and E...

British Pathé was once a dominant feature of the British cinema experience, renowned for first-class reporting and an informative yet uniqu...

Created in 1990, Flanders Image is the audiovisual export agency for Flanders and Brussels, Belgium. It is in charge of the promotion of ...

The term feature film came into use to refer to the main film to be presented in a cinema, and the one which was promoted or advertised. Th...

One point perspective contains one vanishing point on the horizon line. One-point perspective exists when the painting plate (also known as...

Trailers tell the story of a film in a highly condensed fashion that must have maximum appeal. In the decades since film marketing has beco...

Tripods are used for both still and motion photography to prevent camera movement. They are necessary when slow-speed exposures are being ...

Stereoscopy (also called stereoscopics or 3D imaging) is a technique for creating or enhancing the illusion of depth in an image by means o...

Source: recent ANP webvideos ANP (Netherlands national news agency) is the most important news supplier in The Netherlands. It provides...

A fan film is a film or video inspired by a film, television program, comic book or a similar source, created by fans rather than by the s...

With the spread of Internet global accessing(fastest Internet broadband connection of TCP with accumulator cables and semi fast connect...

A compilation film, or compilation movie is a film edited from previously released or archive footage, but compiled in a new order of appea...

is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridic...

Sponsored film, or ephemeral film, as defined by film archivist Rick Prelinger, is a film made by a particular sponsor for a specific purpo...

cinéma vérité , French film movement of the 1960s that showed people in everyday situations with authentic dialogue and naturalness of act...

In library and archival science, digital preservation is a formal endeavor to ensure that digital information of continuing value remains a...

; SCHELDT , one of the most important rivers of Belgium and the Netherlands. It rises in the French department of the Aisne; flows circuito...

Siberia ( is an extensive geographical region, consisting of almost all of North Asia. Siberia has been part of Russia since the seventeen...

The BFI 75 Most Wanted is a list compiled by the British Film Institute of their most sought-after British feature films not currently held...

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

Noddy headshots or noddies are a type of camera shot used in recorded news or current affairs interviews. The noddies consist of nods and...

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...