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

Lifeline Shows the waves of the sound a boat engine makes underwater. The dutch artist Meyer  makes the inaudible visible and shows us ...

Born Georg Henri Anton Ivens into a wealthy family, Ivens went to work in one of his father's photo supply shops and from there develo...

Fireworks take many forms to produce the four primary effects: noise, light, smoke, and floating materials (confetti for example). They ma...

Saint Alexander Nevsky Lavra or Saint Alexander Nevsky Monastery was founded by Peter I of Russia in 1710 at the eastern end of the N...

An Internet protocol camera, or IP camera, is a type of digital video camera commonly employed for surveillance, and which, unlike analog ...

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was an architect from Reus, Catalonia. He is the best known practitioner of Catalan Mod...

Romance films or romance movies are romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theaters and on TV that focus on passi...

The concept of orphan films acquired an academic and creative entity in the 1990s from new approaches to managing film archives. At that t...

Optical video recording technology, using a transparent disc, was invented by David Paul Gregg and James Russell in 1958 The Gregg patent...

Jean-Luc Godard, never one to be outdone, has also made vivid use throughout his career of not just red but white and blue as well. The...

OLDER CITIES OVERCOME BY EXCESSIVE TOURISM? Many older cities, such as Venice, Barcelona, Berlin, and Amsterdam, are suffering from exces...

Camera movements can also be motion captured so that a virtual camera in the scene will pan, tilt, or dolly around the stage driven by a c...

The cinema of Egypt refers to the flourishing film industry based in Cairo, the capital of Egypt. Since 1976, Cairo has held the annual Ca...

A World Heritage Site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UN...

In television, film, and theatre, typecasting is the process by which a particular actor becomes strongly identified with a specific chara...

A close-up or closeup in filmmaking, television production, still photography and the comic strip medium is a type of shot, which tightly ...

Saint Nicholas' Day, observed on December 6 in Western Christian countries, December 5 in the Netherlands and December 19 in Eastern C...

Alexandria is the second largest city and a major economic centre in Egypt, extending about 32 km (20 mi) along the coast of the Mediterra...

The FFF Bayern has the goal of developing the film funding system, both in terms of quality as well as quantity. Through this funding ins...

Decline of film projectors In 1999, digital cinema projectors were being tried out in some movie theatres. These early projectors played ...

Anchovies and sardines are both small, silvery, oily fish, and they are even related. Nevertheless, they are different fish, and connoisseu...

It is true that users generally don’t want to watch a beautiful four-minute mini-doc that comes after a 30-second pre-roll ad. That’s vide...

In film and video, a freeze frame is when a single frame of content shows repeatedly on the screen—"freezing" the action. This c...

More than 240 enthusiasts attended the UNICA Congress 2017 in Dortmund. Each will have her or his own favourite memory. The venue, an ind...

On the cold morning of October 15, 1917, Mata Hari was executed in the Parisian suburb of Vincennes, President Raymond Poincare having ref...

Frank Bruinsma: I gave a short interview to Stichting Amateurfilm. This foundation has an aim to create interest for amateur film in past...

Filmmaking is in a very strange place right now. While traditional filmmakers focus on witty scripts and clever cinematography, technolo...

On 27th July 1890 a gaunt figure stumbled down a drowsy high street at twilight in the small French country town of Auvers. The man was c...

Communicators are filmmakers and content providers who have something to say using the power of moving images with excellent sound, well c...

The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1...

Vienne is a commune in southeastern France, located 32 kilometres (20 mi) south of Lyon, on the river Rhône. It is only the fourth largest...

His Master's Voice (HMV) is a famous trademark in the recording industry and was the unofficial name of a major British record label. ...

Video production is the process of creating video by capturing moving images (videography), and creating combinations and reductions of pa...

Shooting in the round refers to a style in cinematography in which the 180-degree rule is broken and the actors are filmed from all sides....

A natural history film or wildlife film is a documentary film about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures, usually concentr...

A step outline (more commonly called a beat sheet) is a detailed telling of a story with the intention of turning the story into a screenp...

Backlight (Dutch: Tegenlicht) is a documentary television series by Dutch public broadcasting organisation VPRO. The first episode of Back...

The first camera using digital electronics to capture and store images was developed by Kodak engineer Steven Sasson in 1975. He used a ch...

Each year, Aigues-Mortes produces 500,000 tons of salt, making it a worldwide benchmark. In the Camargue, salt can be found widely in the...

An anti-war movement (also antiwar) is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on...

The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape located in the southern part of central France with over thre...

Time and technology have not only changed the techniques of filmmaking but have also made giving the “first take” a more comfortable aff...

Good news: we're all for a visual treat. The BBC has announced nature series Planet Earth II, a follow-up to the original ratings wi...

Observational documentaries attempt to simply and spontaneously observe lived life with a minimum of intervention. Filmmakers who worked i...

  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 l...

The Super 8 film format, introduced in 1965,[1] was marketed for making home movies but it also boosted the popularity of show-at-home f...

Shooting Your Movie Focus on telling your story or idea visually. ... Make a storyboard of your film. ... Use an external mic instead ...

High Noon is a 1952 American Western film produced by Stanley Kramer from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, directed by Fred Zinnemann, and s...

Slow motion is ubiquitous in modern filmmaking. It is used by a diverse range of directors to achieve diverse effects. Some classic subjec...

A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following. Cult films are known...