Close Up (Jul-Dec 1928)

Page scan 000641 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 #:
000641
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 how they may be rented, the following practical points must be borne in mind. 1. It is advisable to examine copy before using and to note scratches, as copy must be returned in good condition. 2. Unless you want a heavy bill for damages be sure you understand how^ to run your projector. Film can too easily be spoiled in running. 3. Copy must be covered by insurance (including transit risk), as each copy may be worth from thirty to sixty pounds. 1. In renting a copy be careful to make some enquiry as to what state it is in. Readers will do well to refer to Murder in the Dark Room, by Oswell Blakeston, in the March issue of Close Up. 5. It is customary, but not inevitable, for the renter to pay postage one way and the hirer the other. You must enquire into this when renting. 6. A copy rented for a single showing must be returned within twenty-four hours. 7. The fees vary from two to ten guineas a showing, according usually to the age of the picture. The following list does not pretend to be complete. We shall hope from time to time to give particulars in Close Up as to foreign films available for private showing. Where fees are quoted they are for a single showing, and while they have been copied from letters from the firms in question, they are approximate only and merely for rough guidance. I might add that I have written letters on the censorship question to most of the leading English newspapers. None D 49