Close Up (Jan-Jun 1930)

Page scan 00081 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jan-Jun 1930
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
00081
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 What I think of London " interview. But perhaps her place in the film is to hold up the traffic whenever traffic is shown by getting out of loaned limousine for photographic purposes. A recurring theme. Perhaps, also, this turn might go. 9. Pavement artist. A man chalking on the pavement, as they do by St. ]\Iartin's, and the picture coming to life as a sound cartoon, Hke Mickev Mouse. It might be straight animated drawing, or it might escape from the drawing like the Inkwell Imp and get involved in the square. This turn is not deletable. A good showman knows what sound cartoons are worth. 10. The Making of a Box of Matches, Not a pseudodance scena, but an " interest " film, really dealing with life and the struggle to live. Showing how a tree is turned into matches, from all its stages, to being sold by a man in the Strand. This to be serious and made as well as possible, with clear conception, cutting and camera-work. A Grierson film. It flashes back, after the making of matches to a last, upward panning shot of the tree, and panning down, dissolves to Nelson's column, with Nellie Wallace atop. This giving your mind the chance to think of the view to be had up there, a slight documentary follows her modishness. 11. Documentary. Juxtaposition the chief thing here. Mr. Shepherd preaching, Labour demonstration at foot of column ; sailors arriving at the station, to be greeted inevitably by the sailors' " best friends," and a social wedding going on in another, rather smarter corner of the square. The Queen, accompanied by the King, driving 51