Close Up (Jan-Jun 1929)

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CLOSE UP was I of giving away the idea belonging to the most favoured critic. The plot was to take a day in a dog's life, using the camera as the dog's eyes; the idea being that a room must look like a jungle to a dog. Nix on dat Judas stuff, for Monsieur S. Silka has run away with the idea. A duck, who tires of the monotonous barnyard, seeks the great world — the pond round the corner ! What a saga the search for that pond becomes, with tapestry tree-tops far above, travelling shots from the duck's view point, and landscapes. A poem it is called, and a poem it is in achievement. Simply; the duck lures a hen to share his travels; a viper puts them on the wrong path ; the duck enjoys himself in the finally discovered pond ; the willing hen drowns in an attempt to adapt herself to life in the water ; darkness leads the duck back to the barnyard where the farmer's wife is seeking a nice fat bird for the table. So the bad duck gets his ! I cannot imagine an audience who would not enjoy this short. The cutting is a fine art, the photography without flaw. Monsieur Silka used a hand-camera of French make ; and his picture, although in every way professionally secure, is a lesson to the amateur who has no larger resources. O.B. 87