C'est le Toon
C'est Le Toon
i am a Dutch amateurfilmer and homevideo enthusiast, as well as producer, director, editor of "C'est le Toon"
This video blog is a communication tool between family and friends sharing news, documentaries, intertravelogues, and re. But it contains also tips about and examples of how to make ...
Salamanca once again
Source: archive.org.This 16 mm film on a trip to Spain and Portugal by Pieter Prinsen dates from 1992. It was transferred tot the archive by Filmcollectief Zandvoort, the Netherlands.Compared to my film of the same city (see blip file 56587) the colour ...
Salamanca, Ciudad Dorada
runtime 4 Salamanca (population 160,000) is a city in central Spain.The city was founded in the pre-Roman period by Vacceos, an indigenous tribe, as one of a pair of forts to defend their territory near the Duero river. The city lies on a plateau by ...
Death of the Dutch Republic
The term "remake" is generally used in reference to a movie which uses an earlier movie as the main source material, rather than in reference to a , later movie based on the same source.With some exceptions, remakes make significant character, plot, and ...
Casa Anita
General Interest & Footage SourcesHome & Amateur A blog about home movies and amateur film, whose contributors hail from the Center for Home Movies.Lost in Light The documentation of a (now complete) free home movie transfer project, including home ...
Towards Tulle
Recently, the term mise en scène has come to represent a style of conveying the information of a scene primarily through a single shotoften accompanied by camera movement. It is to be contrasted with montage-style filmmakingmultiple angles pieced ...
Dutch palace
Film preservationThe film preservation, or film restoration, movement is an ongoing project among film historians, archivists, museums, and non-profit organizations to rescue decaying film stock and preserve the images which they contain. In the widest ...
Najera in Rioja
Info on Tape Formats:DV / Digital Video (domestic and professional)Video tape format primarily designed for the consumer market that records a 4:1:1 standard definition signal with a 5:1 compression ratio for a total bitrate of 25Mb/s. DV cassettes come ...
Pays Basque
At the edge of France and Spain, the Pays Basque is diverse in both landscape and culture. The Pays Basque is the French half of the former kingdom of Navarre, the mountainous ancestral home of the Basque people. The area was joined with the Kingdom of ...
Dommeldal near Eindhoven
Filmtips:HDV is a highly compressed high definition format. As a result, it is not naturally compatible with standard definition televisions or DVD players as such. However, both the camera and the VTR have a "down converted" output that can be used to ...
Capital of Rioja
Shooting on DigitalThere are many options when looking at the digital route, from buying your own digital video camera (DV Cam), to hiring the highest quality High Definition (HD/Hi-Def) camera.There is no question that, in most cases, HD looks better ...
Two french bridges
Whatever happened to the French New Wave? The technology of the late 1950s promised to free filmmakers from the constraints of cumbersome equipment and overly complex production techniques. This freedom was supposed to push creative boundaries in ...
French slapstick
Filmtips:Slapstick is a type of comedy involving exaggerated physical violence or activities which exceed the boundaries of common sense[ and sometimes includes ironic situations, such as a character being hit in the face with a heavy frying pan or ...
Pictures of Spain
A photo slideshow is a collection of images to be displayed, usually in public. Early slideshows were often presented using a slide projector, where the original film is mounted on slides and simply projected as they are. However technological ...
Safari
Filmtips:Filming is a wonderful skill to develop. You can make it as simple or as complex as you want depending on your skill and desire. Most of the famous Hollywood directors actually started on their own. Think Steven Spielberg, Orson Welles, George ...
Camping at the Rhone
Filmtips:Most people use "film" and "movie" interchangeably. "Film" is more often used when considering artistic, theoretical, or technical aspects, as studies in a university class. "Movies" more often refers to entertainment or commercial aspects, as ...
White village
One of Andalucia's most dramatically positioned pueblos blancos. Arcos balances atop a rocky limestone ridge, its whitewashed houses and stone castle walls stopping abruptly as a sheer cliff face plunges down to the fertile valley of the river ...
Spanish Pyrenees
Dubbing is the post-production process of recording and replacing voices on a motion picture or television soundtrack subsequent to the original shooting schedule. The term most commonly refers to the substitution of the voices of the actors shown on the ...
Images of France
A slideshow is a display of a series of chosen pictures, which is done for artistic or instructional purposes. Slideshows are conducted by a presenter using an apparatus, such as a carousel slide projector, an overhead projector or in more recent years, ...
Guernica
Filmtips:War films are a film genre concerned with warfare, usually about naval, air or land battles, sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, military training or other related subjects. At times war films focus on daily ...