Close Up (Jul-Dec 1928)

Page scan 000208 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 #:
000208
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 '^together with the admirable acting of Otto Mattiesen, the task has been accomplished with almost uncanny fidelity. Klein has brought to the work not only a long European experience as a cameraman with such companies as Emelka and UFA, but also a rare versatility of artistic and technical abilities, coupled with native skill as a director. While much of the camera work on the picture is his own, he had the assistance of Leon Shamroy, the young Russian cameraman, whose notable work in The Last Moment definitely established him as one of the few real camera geniuses of Hollywood. * * * Concrete evidence that the Hollywood producers are assured of the permanence of phono-films, or talking movies, is offered by the Fox Company in their recent construction of a five-hundred-thousand-dollar movietone film laboratory. In keeping with the present trend of studio architecture, the building is an artistic structure of Spanish motif. One of the leading engineers of the Eastman Kodak Company was employed to supervise its construction and the equipment of its various departments. Besides its departments for experimental work, chemical research, and movietone printing, the laboratory contains several projection rooms, a screen laboratory, a machine shop, twenty dark rooms and a number of offices. * * * Following a number of pictures in which the vitaphone was used to a greater or less extent, the Warner Brothers have now produced a film which is equipped from beginning to end with their sound device. The title of the picture, credit 54