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

Clay animation or claymation is one of many forms of stop motion animation. Each animated piece, either character or background, is "...

A good, sturdy tripod will let you get smooth pan or tilt movements, but for any other movements you could benefit from a home-made type o...

Battle of Rocroi, (May 19, 1643), a military engagement of the Thirty Years’ War in which a French army of 22,000 men, under the Duke d’En...

Traditionally, the race is held primarily in the month of July. While the route changes each year, the format of the race stays the same w...

Cinema of Belgium refers to the film industry based in Belgium. Belgium is essentially a bi-lingual country divided into the Flemish (Dut...

Imaginary worlds, characters, items, etc. have been described in stories and tales since the dawn of humanity. In the philosophic discours...

The Tropenmuseum is a museum about people, housed in an impressive listed building overlooking Amsterdam’s Oosterpark. The extensive per...

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

The tour, almost 200 km in length, follows a route along frozen canals, rivers and lakes visiting the eleven historic Frisian cities: Leeu...

Amsterdam is known for its art history and in recent years the city's major institutions have stepped up to the historical mark with ...

A film essay (or "cinematic essay") consists of the evolution of a theme or an idea rather than a plot per se, or the film liter...

A remix is a piece of media which has been altered from its original state by adding, removing, and/or changing pieces of the item. A song...

Typical training tasks for companion birds include perching, non-aggression, halting feather-picking, controlling excessive vocalizations,...

In both the United States and Europe, the idea of children's films began to gain relative prominence in the 1930s. According to Bazalg...

A Gouda pipe is a ceramic tobacco pipe, which many men smoked in the 18th century. In 1606, English mercenaries arrived in the Netherland...

The first book about Miffy was published 60 years ago, in 1955. Dick Bruna told his oldest son a story about a bunny hopping around the g...

In cinema special attention must be paid to continuity because films are rarely shot in the order in which they are presented: that is, a ...

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

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

Robert Cornelius, an American pioneer in photography, produced a daguerreotype of himself in 1839 which is also one of the first photograp...

Film museum The EYE Institute offers a visitor a large choice of attractions. First, there is a permanent history of cinema exhibit locat...

  A slide show is a presentation of a series of still images on a projection screen or electronic display device, typically in a prearranged...

King Kong is a giant movie monster, resembling a colossal gorilla, that has appeared in various media since 1933. The character first appea...

The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film production ...

International borders Lake Constance is the only area in Europe where no borders exist, because there is no legally binding agreement as ...

Zooming in film-making and television production refers to the technique of changing the focal length of a zoom lens (and hence the angle o...

A mansion is a large dwelling house. The word itself derives through Old French from the Latin word mansio "dwelling", an ab...

The city draws its name from the spiny broom (calicotome spinosa; brnistra or žuka in modern Croatian), a common shrub in the area, after ...

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

The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir, directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howar...

Media Literacy provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate, create and participate with digital messages from print to video on the ...

A children's film, or family film, is a film genre that contains children or relates to them in the context of home and family. Childr...

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing....

Shallow focus is a photographic and cinematographic technique incorporating a small depth of field. In shallow focus one plane of the im...

Stop motion is an animation technique that physically manipulates an object that appears to move on its own. The object is moved in small ...

. In film theory, genre refers to the method based on similarities in the narrative elements from which films are constructed. Most the...

Read, Travel, Watch. It's as simple as that. Read as much as you can so that when you when you travel you have perspective on the wo...

It takes 3 minutes, and offers a lot of creative ways to use your smartphone and make it more than just a phone. As far as I'm concerne...

Today's travelogues may be shown with either live or recorded voice-over narration, often with an in-sync audio soundtrack featuring mu...

A lobby is a room in a building which is used for entry from the outside. Sometimes referred to as a foyer or an entrance hall, it often i...

Dubbing, mixing, or re-recording is a post-production process used in filmmaking and video production in which additional or supplementary...

Docufiction (or docu-fiction ), often confused with docudrama , is the cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction , this term ...

Eyewitness testimony is generally presumed to be more reliable than circumstantial evidence. Studies have shown, however, that individual, ...

Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider. The verb ...

Google Experiences like you're actually there. Capture the world in VR video Jump Camera The Jump rig consists of 16 camera modules in...

Fanfare (1958) AL | 86 min | Comedy, Music | 24 October 1958 (Netherlands) 7,5 Your rating: -/10 Ratings: 7,5/10 from 544 users Rev...

This radio interview was never broadcasted ! An interview is a conversation between two or more people where questions are asked by th...

The historical period drama is a film genre in which stories are based upon historical events and famous people. Some historical dramas are...

Photos. What is probably most noteworthy about the new app is that Apple is no longer simply using iCloud to share your photos across dev...