Close Up (Jan-Jun 1928)

Page scan 000692 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jan-Jun 1928
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000692
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Switzerland, Early Cinema, and Global Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
As an active film magazine, CLOSE UP lasted only a short time, from 1927 to 1933. Yet the legacy of this English-language periodical, which was published in Switzerland, continues to matter. Edited by Bryher and her husband Kenneth Macpherson, CLOSE UP became THE magazine for energetic debates about the nature of cinema and manifestos imagining new forms of filmmaking and spectatorship. The magazine published articles by filmmakers, such as Sergei Eisenstein, and female literary modernists, such as H.D. and Gertrude Stein. As film scholar Anne Friedberg explains in the anthology CLOSE-UP, 1927-1933: CINEMA & MODERNISM, 'CLOSE UP became the model for a certain type of writing about film -- writing that was theoretically astute, politically incisive, critical of films that were simply 'entertainment.' For six and a half years, CLOSE UP maintained a forum for a broad variety of ideas about the cinema; it never advocated a single direction of development, but rather posed alternatives to existing modes of production, consumption, and film style.' Like Friedberg's own writing, CLOSE UP continues to be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of film and media theory. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
June 20, 2024
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CLOSE UP Miss Tonge and I tried another effect (which I have not seen done) a short time ago. It is rather like a mix, but instead of fading out, we circled out and circled in, overlapping the two "circles" instead of the fades. I have only just finished the developing of this bit of film and have not had time to run off print yet, so I can't say how it will look on the screen, which is of course, the real test (*). I am very interested in Bryher's remarks on film societies Id suggest that promoters of these schemes take a look -oiector market. A few months ago h motor, spool-boxes and .akers at £45. So far, the .0 renew the brushes of the d be film society has to face seexx_ ectors or films, but finding a home. Rooii^, _ + There one can put up a pri vate theatre, are jolly difficuiL _ id — and the rent and rates are a big liability for a small new unit to undertake. I do feel very strongly that every film society should try to produce one film a year. Xo matter if it is only a few hundred feet, it will make its producers far more intelligently critical than they were before. And such a film should really be produced by the film society. Not by a few members helped out by an ;i imported" professional cameraman. It is not often possible (on the score of expense) for amateurs to under (*) This was ako effectively employed in Siihne. 78