Close Up (Jul-Dec 1929)

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jul-Dec 1929
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000447
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 NEWS OF THE SOVIET CINEMA The operator, Valenty, has set to work to photograph a full-length chronicle (news) film, The Country of the Soviets. The purpose of the film is to reflect the face of the country, its natural treasures, its achievements since the Revolution and its current organisation. For the purpose of the actual photography Valenty will visit about 80 dift'erent districts in various parts of the U.S.S.R. At each of the various points where filming will take place, Valenty will get into close touch with the local organisations of the Society of Friends of the Soviet Kino. On the one hand, he will in each town have a technical cinema consultation w^ith the local organisation of the Society of Friends of the Soviet Kino ; and, on the other hand, the Society will give him information regarding the local life and discuss with him the choice of the material for the photographs. This work represents an important experiment, which, if it is successful, will be introduced into the system of Soviet cinema production. * * The Soviet of People's Commissars of the R.S.F.S.R. have accepted a resolution in regard to the supply of educational films to the masses of the people. Over the whole territory of the R.S.F.S.R. free hire and marketing by the producing, government and social organisa 309