Close Up (Jul-Nov 1927)

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CLOSE UP (which after all is according to a fairly efficient formula) but in people who do not like things but do not know why they don't. With the reactionary and journalist one knows where one is. A journahst is a man holding down his job, and saying what the policy of his paper expects of him ; the reactionary just opens his maw and squeals. But with these others, sometimes clever people, charming too, things may or may not exist, god may or may not exist, destruction may or m_ay not exist. Let others find out, they say, and expect to come in at the end when the battle is over and the victor estabhshed. Well, why shouldn't they ? Why shouldn't they is not an important thing. Equally w^hy should they. Why should you or I have learnt to walk when it w^ould have been much easier to permanently sit ? Because the disadvantages of not learning would have been worth consideration. One usually does anything only because not doing it would be more troublesome in the long run. There is a kind of ennui and another kind of ennui and each is alright when it is conscious, when the attitude is that no ultimate end is worth immediate means ; but unconscious ennui, that puffed-up dismal vanity is always and infalhbly indecent. On the other hand there is plenty of excuse for busy people who have not had time to see beyond the hash and rehash of cheap films. To realise what cinematograph}^ can and will mean is a full-time occupation. People are needed, we are needed. Close Up is needed to bring facts before people. Eighty per cent of any cinemia audience has learnt only to 6