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

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction...

FORCED LABOUR Dutch government, in spite of recent claims as one of the richest in Europe, seems to lack an enormous amount of money in ...

Many have been in the asylum process for years, and include Somalis, Afghans,, and stateless persons. Human Rights Watch is concerned tha...

Inspiring Stanley Kubrick “I would say that there are elements in any good film that would increase the viewer’s interest and appreciatio...

   In filmmaking, behind-the-scenes (BTS), also known as the making-of, the set, or on the set, is a type of documentary film that features ...

In the post-production process of film editing and video editing, a dissolve is a gradual transition from one image to another. The terms f...

a family film. 1972/1973 filmed in Kodak super 8. My hometown and my fathers hobby: pigeons as well as a black &white Dutch Documen...

"Charlie" Chaplin, was an English actor, comedian, and filmmaker, who rose to fame in the silent era. Chaplin became a worldwide ...

Digital photo slide shows can be custom made for customers, using their photos, music, wedding invitations, birth announcements, or virtu...

A travel documentary is a documentary film, television program or online series that describes travel in general or tourist attractions wi...

Visual effects are often integral to a movie's story and appeal. Although most visual effects work is completed during post-production...

John Ford “When you’re able to distinguish the art of the horizon at the bottom of a frame, or at the top of the frame — but not going r...

Loutish behaviour and degeneration are commonplace today. Its the theme of this thriller shot in my hometown in the Netherlands. People...

Time-lapse photography is a technique whereby the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than that use...

Horror and terror stem mainly from movies and literature. Horror is the feeling you get after seeing something violent and disturbing, wh...

This technique is more frequently used in films when you want to create some kind of dramatic effect. It involves showing two action scene...

Film is an important art form; films entertain, educate, enlighten, and inspire audiences. The visual elements of cinema need no translati...

it may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and other obj...

Filmmaking also takes place outside of the mainstream and is commonly called independent filmmaking. Since the introduction of DV technolo...

Film preservation, or film restoration, describes a series of ongoing efforts among film historians, archivists, museums, cinematheques, an...

Kodak ceased sales of standard 8 mm film under its own brand in the early 1990s, but continued to manufacture the film, which was sold via ...

The film industry began as a visual medium in which artists could be seen acting out stories on the silver screen, but in recent decades i...

Whaling is the hunting of whales primarily for meat and oil. Its earliest forms date to at least circa 3000 BC. Various coastal communiti...

The movie De Nieuwe Wildernis is set in the Oostvaardersplassen, a nature reserve of high standard in the Netherlands. The reserve has bee...

The adoption by the UNESCO General Conference in October 1980 of the Recommendation for the Safeguarding and Preservation of Moving Imag...

Van Gogh worked with the Somali-born writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali to produce the film Submission, which criticized the treatment of women in Isl...

The Cinema of Italy comprises the films made within Italy, or by Italian directors. Since the development of the Italian film industry in ...

Marcel Wanders (July 2, 1963) is a Dutch designer, and art director in the Powerhouse studio in Amsterdam, who designs architectural, inte...

The 9th Orphan Film Symposium featured more than 70 presenters, nearly as many movies, and more than 200 attendees, who came from 30+ nati...

Human trafficking is the trade in humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation f...

Film editing is an art that can be used in diverse ways. It can create sensually provocative montages; become a laboratory for experimenta...

Music Boat Amsterdam The Music Boat man, Reinier Sijpkens, travels around the world making magic and music for children. At home in the N...

Continuity is a film term that suggests that a series of shots should be physically continuous, as if the camera simply changed angles in...

Who is black and who is white? Who actually determines this? And what does the Dutch slavery in the past have to do with this? 150 years a...

Michael Wolf, a notable German photographer and artist who interchangeably works and lives in Paris and Hong Kong; although he was born in...

Film-out of computer graphics and animation Artists working with CGI-Computer-generated imagery animation computers create pictures fr...

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 ...