Close Up (Jul-Dec 1928)

Page scan 000209 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 #:
000209
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 titles, the cast, sub-titles, and dialog titles are all spoken from the film. No printed words appear on the screen for any purpose. The picture is an adaptation of Edgar Wallace's stage play, The Terror, popular for many years in England. The cast consists of Edward Everet Horton, May McAvoy, Alec Francis, Louise Fazenda, Holmes Herbert and John Miljean. * * William K. Howard's latest picture. The River Pirate, directed for the Fox Company, has won him a five-year contract w^ith that company. The River Pirate is a w^orthy successor to his many previous picture achievements, notably White Gold, Gigolo, and His Country, and is destined to win him further recognition as one of Hollywood's most capable and artistic directors. ^ ^ •TV* "TV" "TV" Exclusive " stills " from the Biblical sequence of Warner Brothers' two-million-dollar cinema spectacle, NoaWs Ark, directed by Michael Curtiz, appear in this issue. Close Up has the privilege of being first in the field to print scenes from this yet unfinished production, of w^hich no other photographs have yet appeared. The leading roles are played by Dolores Costello and George O'Brien. Others in the cast include Xoah Beery, Louise Fazenda, Nigel de Brulier, Guinn Williams, Anders Randolph, Armand Kaliz, Myrna Loy, William Mong and ]\Ialcolm Waite. All of these actors play parts in both the deluvian and the modern secjuences of the film. In the former. Miss Costello enacts the role of a fictitious character, Miriam, whom Noah's 55