Close Up (Jul-Dec 1928)

Page scan 000181 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jul-Dec 1928
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000181
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:
July 25, 2024
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CLOSE UP spot " in the picture) with a flaming torch, and sets alight to a gentleman wearing a property beard. Keep still," yelled the cameraman, if youVe got to burn you might as well burn in the picture !" My favourite is an Arabian adventure of a kind nonentity who took pity on tw^o children. Flies had clustered round the children's mouth and eyes, and while the camera was being moved in for a close-up, he chased them away. Fury ! The producer yelled : Put those flies back at once. How in hell's name am I going to match up with the long shot?" ♦ ♦ * A joke behind the scenes may not be a joke in an armchair. I feel that I should have said this at the beginning, but then you might not have read anv further. O. B. loo PER CENT. CINEMA (The Film Arts Guild, pioneers in the " little cinema movement " of America, whose series of presentations of foreign films as well as American films at the Cameo Theatre, New^ York, during 1926 and 1927, may be said to have formally launched the film art movement, has consummated plans for the erection of its own cinema in the Greenw^ich Village section of Xew York, which will be opened to the public during September, 1928. Realizing that the art film, to grow to any influential 35