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Close Up (Jul-Dec 1929)

Page scan 000455 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 #:
000455
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 has finished his director's work on the setting for Life is Good. In connection with the fact that this picture will be the first sound-film produced by Meschrabpom-Film, the director, L. Obolensky, who belongs to the V. Pudovkin group, is at the present time making experiments in regard to the application of the sound-kino to the Vey apparatus constructed by the engineer, P. Tager. Meschrabpom-Film is putting into effect the order of the Government in regard to the free hire of educational films. During the present year the hiring of educational films will be considerably extended. In consideration of the fact that the market for the hire of educational films has up to now been insufficiently organised and that its further development depends entirely on the activities of the clubs and organisations which directly control the enterprises for the showing of films, Meschrabpom-Film has forwarded to these organisations a notification that it is prepared to give the maximum of support to all such organisations and clubs as are giving their attention to the hiring of and organisation of the market for cultural fiJms. ^ ^ For the film 2 Buldi 2, the director, Lev Kuleshof is takingphotographs for Meschrabpom-Film in a special largescale circus decor constructed in the courtyard of the factory. The decor by the artist Ballyuzek reproduces an actual circus with an arena and large accommodation for spectators and for the orchestra. Four operators are to take simultaneous photographs of the acrobatic numbers, " Trio