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 #:
000464
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Early Cinema, Global Cinema, and Switzerland
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 actinic electric cell, and the photovoltic cell; are all docketed neatly. Elementary laws of acoustics are sketched in ; for example : one can learn, or remind oneself, that walls closer than 50 feet can give no echo, and that l = v/n. I admit that Mr. Cameron has the honour of being the first to explain television to me so that I could begin to cultivate a bored attitude of superiority towards it after reading his words once only. A lot of space is devoted to studio technique. At the Fox joint the inner walls are made of 4-inch solid gypsum blocks, 1 inch of hair felt, 3 inches of air space, and another layer of 4-inch gypsum blocks. The outer walls are made of brick and masonry and are about 24 inches in thickness. A double ceiling, concrete plaster separated by a 3 inch air space and 1 inch of hair felt, is supported from roof trusses. Floors are covered with soft carpets, inner walls are draped with Celotex, and heavy ^lonk Cloth is hung perpendicularly to the walls and ceiling so that it can be raised or low-ered to meet the degree of resonance required. The air is changed every 8 minutes. Boy, they don't do these little things by half measures, in other words they look after their barrels of tar and hope that the pounds but that sentence ought to have nothing to do with the rest of the article. The monitor is the important new technician in the sound studio. He looks down on the set, through three thicknesses of glass, and controls the sounds from a sw^itchboard ; he can tone down a violin and tone up a drummer w^hen both are playing in the same orchestra. 326