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

The parade float got its name because the first floats were decorated barges that were towed along canals with ropes held by parade march...

The Basilica church of St. Ursula . It is built upon the ancient ruins of a Roman cemetery, where the 11,000 virgins associated with th...

Combined with the Internet and personal computing, digital media has caused disruptive innovation in publishing, journalism, public relati...

An essential element of historical fiction is that it is set in the past and pays attention to the manners, social conditions and other de...

Continuity editing is the process, in film and video creation, of combining more-or-less related shots, or different components cut from a...

In film editing, video editing and post production, screen direction is the direction that actors or objects appear to be moving on the sc...

An edit decision list or EDL is used in the post-production process of film editing and video editing. The list contains an ordered list o...

Before the camera stabilizing system, a director had two choices for moving (or "tracking") shots: The camera could be mounted...

In Germany's mainly Catholic cities along the Rhine, Carnival is something altogether different. Here it's so bound up with the...

The title is sometimes translated as burgomaster, to emphasize the appointed, rather than elected, nature of the office. The appointment p...

Montage theory, in its rudimentary form, asserts that a series of connected images allows for complex ideas to be extracted from a sequenc...

Amsterdamned is a 1988 Dutch horror film directed and written by Dick Maas, and stars Huub Stapel, Monique van de Ven, and Serge-Henri Val...

Gold Hill, Shaftesbury At almost any time of day, Gold Hill is a magnet for photographers, visitors and loc...

In motion picture film production, cinematography and video production, a reaction shot is a shot which cuts away from the main scene in o...

Collage made from photographs, or parts of photographs, is called photomontage. Photomontage is the process (and result) of making a comp...

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

The setup of stage lighting is tailored for each scene of each production. Dimmers, colored filters, reflectors, lenses, motorized or manu...

Two of the most interesting yet unknown amateur filmmakers of the Thirties are Harry Wright and his younger brother, Samuel Bolling. The W...

On its most fundamental level, film editing is the art, technique and practice of assembling shots into a coherent sequence. The job of a...

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 speci...

A discussion panel at the Davos World Economic Forum has become a sensation after a Dutch historian took billionaires to task for not payi...

The Odessa steps The best-known sequence of the film is set on the Odessa steps, connecting the waterfront with the central city. The citi...

  In this case, the inspiration is M.C. Escher (1898-1972), the Dutch artist who explored a wide range of mathematical ideas with his wood...

Screens specifically designed for use in video walls usually have narrow bezels in order to minimize the gap between active display areas,...

Home slide shows were a relatively common phenomenon in middle-class American homes during the 1950s and 1960s. If there was an enthusias...

United Nations In February 2018, OCHA (the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations) issued a report on...

Cinema newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented. Halfweg contains the last steam pumping station in the Netherla...

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 sp...

Stan & Ollie is a 2018 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Jon S. Baird from a screenplay by Jeff Pope. Based on the lives of ...

Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. The concept is often used interchangeably with that of film re...

  A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or chor...

Daan Roosegaarde has called on designers to shift focus away from designing luxury items and instead to tackle the problems facing the wor...

Turkish Delight starts with a look at the failure of sculptor Eric to engage in lasting and meaningful relations with women. His brief enc...

Images from antonwithagen its me/ mine ! Sound-on-film is a class of sound film processes where the sound accompanying picture is physi...

T he film noir genre generally refers to mystery/crime dramas produced from the early-1940s to the late 1950s. Movies of this genre were ...

On the basis of special objects and historical archive material, Home Movie Day zooms in on a number of drastic changes in amateur films t...

Montage is the technique by which separate pieces of film are selected, edited, and then pieced together to make a new section of film. A ...

Roel Reine was born in The Netherlands, and with his first theatrical feature 'The Delivery' he won The Golden Calf for Best Direc...

Proponents say that the idea behind the various graphics that incorporate a thin blue line is that law enforcement is a Thin Blue Line tha...

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 anti-social Flodder family are living in a upscale suburban neighboorhood. They don't adjust to their environment, and keep o...

the black and white pictures are find footage of mine used in Whaling on this blog. “Our oceans form the earth’s largest life support sy...

Although Dutch-born silent screen femme fatale Jetta Goudal (pronounced Zhett-eh Goo-doll) may be pretty much forgotten today, she was,...

Amsterdam film by antonwithagen. Costi Ioniță known mononymously as Costi (born 14 January 1978), is a Romanian singer, songwriter and r...

A flash mob is a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act for a brief time,...

In filmmaking, found footage is the use of footage as a found object, appropriated for use in collage films, documentary films, mockumenta...

Used in the background is an Amsterdam Zoo footage of the aquarium. Availabel on this Blog.

            Operation Market Garden by Anton Withagen from Resartus  Covered. Music dammaged! War film is a film genre concerned with w...

A hashtag is a type of metadata tag used on social networks such as Twitter and other microblogging services, allowing users to apply dyna...