Close Up (Jul-Dec 1928)

Page scan 000213 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 #:
000213
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 BOOK REVIEWS Two excellent textbooks for students interested in visual instruction have reached us from America. They are both published by the Educational Screen, 5, South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, at the price of a dollar each. A money order for this amount can be obtained easily at any post office, and the average amount of time taken to obtain the volumes if sent for from London would be just over a fortnight. Picture Values in Education, by Weber, should be valuable to all who teach. Everything is explained carefully, there is a full description of some tests given with photographs, stereographs and magic lanterns, with some reference also to the cinema. The general results of these tests were found very favorable to the film-aided " lesson as the pupils understood it better and enjoyed it more '\ In some instances where the film was shown at the beginning of the lesson, learning capacity was increased by as much as fifty per cent. Four hundred and seventy-six voted on the method. The result was thirteen to one in favor of it. Forty per cent, of the children went to the cinema regularly outside lesson hours and others apparently never went at all. It is interesting to note that the results (with regard to the lesson) appeared to be the same with either set of children. Fundamentals in Visual Instruction, by Johnson, contains much also of interest, including a very significant story that the Central Illinois Railway, finding their losses terrific owing to freight being improperly handled, showed a film to all the men they employed which depicted the right methods to handle it, and showed how it could be damaged if other methods were employed. It is said that they reduced their 59