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

In music, a serenade (or sometimes serenata, from the Italian word) is a musical composition, and/or performance, in someone's honor. ...

Saarlouis is a city in the Saarland, Germany, capital of the district of Saarlouis. In 2006, the town had a population of 38,327. Saarloui...

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

Swedish filmmaking rose to international prominence when Svenska Biografteatern moved from Kristianstad to Lidingö in 1911. During the ...

Just over a year ago, we became fascinated by the idea of discovering the world through someone else’s eyes. What if you could see through...

Stream quality Stream quality refers to the quality of the image and audio transferred from the servers of the distributor to the user...

A flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story. Flashbacks are often used t...

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

The advent of photography, from the Ancient Greek words , together meaning "drawing with light" or "representation by means ...

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

What type of thing is film? Film can be described as all of the following: Art – aesthetic expression for presentation or performance,...

F ilmmaking, can be a truly inspiring, rewarding and enjoyable ride, yet as any other craft it takes a lot of hard work, time and effort...

A puppet is an inanimate object animated or manipulated by a puppeteer. It is used in puppetry, which is a very ancient form of theatre. ...

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...