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

In filmmaking and video production, a crane shot is a shot taken by a camera on a crane or jib. The most obvious uses are to view the acto...

Amateur usage of Super 8 has been largely replaced by video, but the format is often used by professionals in music videos, TV commercia...

William Kentridge (born 28 April 1955) is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. These are constr...

There are three large film festivals in the Netherlands: The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is a film festival for indepen...

Germany has a long tradition of cooperation with the European based film industry, which started as early as during the 1960s. Since 1990...

While motion picture films have been around for more than a century, film is still a relative newcomer in the pantheon of fine arts. In th...

Nostalgia (or sometimes called "Nostalgic") is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy persona...

Virtual Reality, which can be referred to as immersive multimedia or computer-simulated life, replicates an environment that simulates phys...

Amsterdam City Swim September 6th, 2015, the canal cruise boats and other vessels make way for more than 1,600 swimmers at the annual Am...

Fair use is a limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. In United States ...

Shock value in television and movies Shock value is a common way to show people graphically how dangerous a situation is, by depicting th...

Mirrors in the sky: Demystifying the legend of the Flying Dutchman Ever since the 17th century, sailors have been haunted by the story of...

Fair use is a limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. In United States...

As the television world makes the transition from the traditional 4:3 format to 16:9 wide-screen, many people ask "Why? What's Wr...

Images for the Future In the project, Images for the Future, four organizations save an important part of the audiovisual heritage of th...

I n film, an insert is a shot of part of a scene as filmed from a different angle and/or focal length from the master shot. Inserts cover...

Although Haanstra continued to make internationally acclaimed documentaries, the "school" more or less faded out by the late si...

Other names for film: Movies Motion pictures Pictures Celluloid Flicks Photoplays Picture shows The cinema The silver screen

70 years ago The Netherlands were freed form the nazi's. The last winter of norttern Holland were terrible and the Dutch were starving...

Because of the stylistic similarities between comic strips and early animated movies, "cartoon" came to refer to animation, and ...

In photography, reversal film is a type of photographic film that produces a positive image on a transparent base. The film is processed t...

- In the archives of Rotterdam is a film surfaced which gives an image of Rotterdam in the year 1926. Nothing strange, were it not that the...

A slide presentation about this part of Spain A film is a ribbon of dreams. The camera is much more than a recording apparatus; it is a ...

The history of film began in the 1890s, with the invention of the first motion-picture cameras and the establishment of the first film pro...

  Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, known as Georges Méliès 8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938), was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for l...

A home movie is a short amateur film or video typically made just to preserve a visual record of family activities, a vacation or a special...

Experimental film or experimental cinema is a type of cinema.Its origins can be found in European avant-garde movements of the twenties. ...

Underground The term describes a range of filmmaking styles that are generally quite different from, and often opposed to, the practices ...

The Annecy International Animation Film Festival (Festival International du Film d'Animation d'Annecy, abbreviated as AIAFF) was cr...

This film Serenata Nocturna is the first puppet animation where Joop Geesink actively involved. The title indicates that it comes from the...

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

Masks play a key part within world theatre traditions, particularly non-western theatre forms. They also continue to be a vital force withi...

a> Making an animation such as this requires a lot of work and precision. First, Chris de Krijger made a collage of digital drawings, p...

  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 d...

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 ...