Close Up (Jul-Dec 1928)

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jul-Dec 1928
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000375
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 difficult problems to solve. He has stated also that there will be no absolute freedom of the will, in his opinion, until the physiology of the brain be understood. Krasnogorsky, a pupil, has (according to Dr. Guest's report) suggested that the experiments upon children should be used as a basis for child education. The next reel showed an experiment for forming a conditioned reflex in a child. The child lay happily and easily on a table unable to see the operator concealed in another room. A funnel was suspended above his mouth. There was a band round his arm. The experimentor pressed a bulb which caused a slight friction against the skin on the arm and at the same moment a sweet dropped into the child's mouth. This was repeated several times, to the child's obvious satisfaction. Finally the experimentor pressed the bulb that caused the friction, but no sweet dropped, though the child's eyes were fixed on the funnel. After a few attempts the child did not attempt to respond to the signal but stared round the room, for even at so early an age it uses its mind and an automatic reflex is far less easily accomplished. It is said that children develop reflexes more easily than animals, retain them longer without practice, but they are also liable to be destroyed more quickly. The next pictures showed idiots, a person in an advanced state of syphilis, etc. It is said that the idiot's brain was no more developed than that of the fish. It was certainly most remarkable to notice the resemblance in the snatching of food between these types and those of the less intelligent animals. But the greatest part of the film is the final section. This began with the close up of a woman's face during childbirth. 29