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

Image stabilization (IS) is a family of techniques used to reduce blurring associated with the motion of a camera or other imaging device ...

  The Documentary film of the Netherlands has long been renowned world wide. The most prominent Dutch directors, especially those who starte...

Fyra was an international high-speed rail service between the Netherlands and Belgium using the AnsaldoBreda V250 train. The service used ...

Light art takes over the Rijksmuseum by night Starting March 25th, a unique light art night exhibition will be hosted at the Rijksmuseum. ...

A wonderful example The archives of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum, of EYE in Amsterdam, and of the Nationa...

Jason D. Page, Light Painting Documentary from Jason D. Page on Vimeo . Light Painter Jason D. Page shines light into the darkness to f...

On top of the works created by Scottish directors, there have been many successful non-Scottish films shot in Scotland. Mel Gibson’s ...

To avoid violating Edison’s motion picture patents, Biograph cameras from 1895 to 1902 used a large-format film measuring 2-23/32 inches (...

World cinema is a term used primarily in English language speaking countries to refer to the films and film industries of non-English spea...

Niki de Saint Phalle (born Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle, 29 October 1930 – 21 May 2002) was a French sculptor, painter, and f...

For the next 33 years, he collected stones along his postal route. Sometimes just one or two, and other times, wheelbarrows full of them. ...

The camera people when filming filmed the reality. For the spectators - in a time when even in a newspaper no picture could be found - i...

Interactive video. It's a motion picture that is interactive, but in most cases it's a video game with loads of filmed footage. ...

The appeal of selfies comes from how easy they are to create and share, and the control they give self-photographers over how they present ...

Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn was born in Leiden, the son of a miller. After finishing Latin School, his parents enrolled him at Leiden Univ...

Cinema of France refers to the film industry based in France. The French cinema comprises the art of film and creative movies made within ...

In medieval times, swinging bells were first used as a way of notifying people of fires, storms, wars, and other events. A ringing of bells...

Focal length and diaphragm aperture affect the depth of field of a scene — that is, how much the background, mid-ground and foreground wil...

Most cameras can also be handheld, that is held in the hands of the camera operator who moves from one position to another while filming th...

Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium. Video art emerged during the late 1960s as ...

Under Bike Cameras you can find many action cameras, as well as accessories for different cameras. These cameras are suitable for many ou...

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

Rembrandt's home and studio Get to know the master personally by visiting the home and studio of the illustrious artist Rembrandt v...

Hardangervidda National Park consists of an area around 8000km² and is the highest mountain plateau in northern Europe. Hardangervidda i...

This is the first time that an exhibition has been dedicated to the late work of one of the greatest painters who ever lived: Rembrandt....

In film, a storyboard artist is hired at the beginning of a project. When a storyboard artist is hired by a motion picture company, the ar...

In the 1950s, playing home movies became popular in the United States as Kodak 8 mm film projector equipment became more affordable. The de...

A film transition is a technique used in the post-production process of film editing and video editing by which scenes or shots are combin...

Expressionist movies relied heavily on symbolism and artistic imagery rather than stark realism to tell their stories. Given the grim mo...

Comedy refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or to amuse by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, televisi...

One of the most celebrated scenes in the film is the massacre of civilians on the Odessa Steps . This scene has been described as one of ...

In less technical contexts, the term is also used to describe something blessed with unusual happiness, as in "fairy tale ending...

Electronic news-gathering (ENG) is a broadcast news industry description of television producers, reporters and editors making use of el...

A taboo is a strong social prohibition (or ban) against words, objects, actions, or discussions that are considered undesirable or offensi...

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The Mutoscope was an early motion picture device, patented by Herman Casler on November 21, 1894. Like Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope it...

Biograph The company was started by William Kennedy Dickson, an inventor at Thomas Edison's laboratory who helped pioneer the technolog...

How a Dutch boy became an international polar hero. The film revolves around the person Sjef van Dongen, forgotten by most, but once he ...

In film and video production, split screen is the visible division of the screen, traditionally in half, but also in several simultaneou...

Stock footage, and similarly, archive footage, library pictures and file footage is film or video footage that can be used in other films. ...

You may be surprised to learn that your home movies can hold great interest for a much wider public, including local historians, internat...

All cameras use the same basic design: light enters an enclosed box through a converging lens and an image is recorded on a light-sensitiv...

Historically, video frames were represented as analog waveforms in which varying voltages represented the intensity of light in an analog ...

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, containing the geographic South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctic region of the Sout...

The paintings of Le Mair can justifiably be compared to those of the Old Masters, sometimes exposing him to criticism by the more modern l...

Suriname was colonized by the British and the Dutch in the 17th century. In 1667 it was captured by the Dutch, who governed Suriname as Dut...

  The boiling frog story is a widespread anecdote describing a frog slowly being boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is placed in bo...

A sound blimp is a housing attached to a camera which reduces the sound caused by the shutter click, particularly SLRs. It is primarily us...

filmtips: Fade In & Fade Out You'll notice that most professional videos begin and end with a black screen. It's easy to giv...

Made with quicktime pro. With the possibilities of cutting and of filming outdoors, films have a much wider palette of possibilities to ...