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

Open Images is an open media platform that offers online access to audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse. Footage from ...

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

\ Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is frequently cited as one of the greatest and most influe...

As motion pictures gradually increased in running time, a replacement was needed for the in-house interpreter who would explain parts of t...

To perform digital colorization, a digitized copy of the best black and white film print available is used. With the aid of computer so...

Usually, in costume, historical accuracy is combined with a certain vision. The character that the costumer is dressing is also an impo...

Some filmmakers put storyboards, those comic book-looking shot plans you sometimes glimpse in making-of documentaries, at the center of...

  Animation is a method in which pictures are manipulated to appear as moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or pa...

The 30 degree change of angle makes two successive shots different enough to not look like a jump cut. However, camera movement should sta...

Adventure travel is a type of niche tourism, involving exploration or travel with a certain degree of risk (real or perceived), and which ...

The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before sound motion pictures...

Olympic swimmer Maarten van der Weijden did not wait for ice for the Elfstedentocht. He took the Journey of Tours by swimming this year,...

France is the birthplace of cinema and was responsible for many of its significant contributions to the art form and the film-making proc...

In 1937, in one of the worst civilian casualties of the Spanish Civil War, Fascist forces bombed the village of Guernica in Northern Sp...

Cinephilia (/ˌsɪnɪˈfɪliə/; also cinemaphilia or filmophilia) is the term used to refer to a passionate interest in films, film theory, and...

Director, Charles Nichols; story, Harry Reeves, Jess Marsh; animation, George Nichols, Marvin Woodward, Gerry Hathcock, Brad Case; music, ...

Vlaggetjesdag (“flag day”) has celebrated the arrival of the first herring (“Hollandse Nieuwe”) in the southern coastal towns of Vlaardin...

  The road movie keeps its characters "on the move", and as such the "car, the tracking shot, [and] wide and wild open spa...

French inventor Henri Chrétien developed and patented a new film process that he called Anamorphoscope in 1926. It was this process that w...

In filmmaking and video production, a shot is a series of frames that runs for an uninterrupted period of time. Film shots are an essentia...

The Amsterdam coronation riots (Dutch: Kroningsoproer) refers to major violence and rioting in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on the day of th...

Traditionally, films were recorded onto celluloid film through a photochemical process and then shown through a movie projector onto a lar...

The name "film" originates from the fact that photographic film (also called film stock) has historically been the medium for re...

De Bont was born in Eindhoven, Netherlands. His earliest work after studying at the Amsterdam Film Academy was with the Dutch avant gard...

Although usually more expensive than film projectors, high-resolution digital projectors offer many advantages over traditional film units...

Images may be two-dimensional, such as a photograph or screen display, or three-dimensional, such as a statue or hologram. They may be cap...

The focus pull is useful for directing the viewer's attention. For example, if there are two people in shot but only one is in focus, ...

White balance basically means colour balance. It is a function which gives the camera a reference to "true white" — it tells th...

Kodak ceased sales of standard 8 mm film under its own brand in the early 1990s, but continued to manufacture the film, which was sold via...

An open content film is much like an independent film, but it is produced through open collaborations; its source material is available un...

The increasingly rare industry term "short subject" carries more of an assumption that the film is shown as part of a presentati...

White balance On digital cameras, electronic compensation for the color temperature associated with a given set of lighting conditions, e...

Projectors can be roughly divided into three categories, based on the type of input. Some of the listed projectors were capable of project...

Loops are short sections of tracks (probably between one and four bars in length), which you believe might work being repeated." A l...

The city of Avallon, "ABALLO" in the Celtic world, is located in the heart of Burgundy. Perched on its granite spur, it dominat...

The Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, near Besançon, was built by Claude Nicolas Ledoux. Its construction, begun in 1775 during the reign ...

CUTAWAYS In a cutaway, you simply leave the main action for a brief scene to film something else that's related to your movie. In the...

White balance basically means colour balance. It is a function which gives the camera a reference to "true white" — it tells the...

The term "remake" is generally used in reference to a movie which uses an earlier movie as the main source material, rather tha...

Digitization, less commonly digitalization, is the process of converting information into a digital (i.e. computer-readable) format, in ...

30-degree rule A basic film editing guideline that states the camera should move at least 30 degrees relative to the subject between suc...

DUNE by Studio Roosegaarde is a public interactive landscape that interacts with human behavior. This hybrid of nature and technology i...

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. What you've really got to do is focus on learning...

For the Eye Museum in Amsterdam, we were asked to make a teaser that displays the many things the Eye has in its collection. We chose to...

A tracking shot is any shot where the camera follows backward, forward or moves alongside the subject being recorded. In cinematography, t...

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

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

The earliest films were simply one static shot that showed an event or action with no editing or other cinematic techniques. Around the tu...

Jean Desmet was one of the largest film entrepreneurs in the Netherlands and he documented and saved almost everything that had to do with...

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