Close Up (Jul-Dec 1929)

Page scan 00098 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jul-Dec 1929
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
00098
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:
June 20, 2024
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CLOSE UP BROADWAY Stop that parrot crying, " You haven't seen anything yet, folks." Director Paul Fejos built a camera crane that can travel 600 feet a minute on a horizontal plane, and is capable of every possible position and cost Uncle Carl Laemmle $15,000. This little treasure operated in a set 70 feet high and a city block wide and deep — I mean if Photoplay says so, it is so ! And the name of the picture, folks, is Broad'way ! Now you will want to see Broadway, won't you, after all that? It is a hundred per cent, talkie too, you can hear Glenn Tryon telling Myrna Kennedy to remember " her dear old, silver-haired mother " ; but Myrna does not pay any more attention to it than you do ! She just acts crazy, that girl ! After Uncle Laemmle had gone to the expense of colouring the last song and dance (what dire things colour did to the young man's face I) vou can imagine that there was little left to buy intelligence ! The night clubs in Broadway are, as one of the characters remarks, shooting galleries. ^len are shot in the back and in the stomach, and then there is a rest for supper. Detectives talk in slow, drawling voices, they are so conscious of the drama in their lives. Little chorus girl is, although it may sound silly, not that sort of a girl " ; and the villain is, although he may look silly, that sort of a boy ". And have chorus girls got legs, Mr. Carl Laem.mle, Jr.? Or did Louella Parsons ask you that in the last interview^ ? O.B. 68