Close Up (Jan-Jun 1929)

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CLOSE UP 3. You travel, therefore, on the Metro with an Ica, if you can borrow one, with an Eyemo. This is essential. You travel with nothing else. Just a camera. Brain or wit would ruin it. Just an Ica, then nothing will interfere w^ith the purity of your images, and that w'ill be tres mecanique and at the same time very sympathetic tow^ards the masses who will be enregistered. If possible they should be caught at dawn. 4. Then you lie on your back beneath the Eiffel Tower. It is made of steel, . and it is a steel age. You can also stand on your head, because panning is passe and if the film **breathes'', so much the better, it will show how poor you are. You cannot afford a real camera. You are just a bon ouvieTy very poor and young. You have to be young to stand on your head. If you cannot afford the Eiffel Tower, Meccano can be used, but it is harder to lie under this. 5. The next thing is to stand on a refuge. Take the traffic coming towards you. You may choose a time, and the sun may be out, just when there is a traffic block, but never mind. Take the block. It will show you know Berlin. It will also give you an opportunity to go on your knees and get a shot of large and looming wheels, which in turn will lead to a sub-title about the menace of machines, and their jeu sans cesse. 6. Next, you w^ant w^ater. It also has jeu sans cesse, but how different a jeu. Where, after all, does the traffic lead us, and regard this water, how slow it is, yet how surely it runs to sea. Yes, in a few years you will be able to quote