Close Up (Jan-Jun 1930)

Page scan 00083 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 #:
00083
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 life and do a marionette turn. A short film of marionettes before that grim Lucky Star trade show revealed unsuspected possibilities, with a burlesque of Al Jolson and the three Eddies. Sound suits Marionettes, I think. Then, Song by the Four Lions. Either a Revellers' quartet, or yodelling. In any case, not " lion " noises. This would be an opportunity for some quite interesting sound experiments. I should know how right or wrong the contrapuntalists are. Lions treated, of course, in the manner of Eisenstein. 15. Trafalgar Square as seen by Maurice Elvey. A brief but let us hope neat burlesque of High Treason. Mr. Elvey, inspired by the garlands which periodically make us wonder what it was Nelson did, thinks of the Column in 1949, when it is used by the B.B.C. All traffic control is done by the four lions, who are robotised. At the same time, there is no traffic, all being done by air. The National Gallery is a public Television Exchange. Whitehall becomes what it always has been, the home of musical comedy (Mr. Elvey is always up-to-date, and he has seen that a theatre is being built at the edge of Whitehall). The Cenotaph is undermined by hysteria, which causes great indignation throughout the whole English-speaking world, which now includes all the globe but the Midlands, and ]^lars as well. The contest for a new design is nearly won by an Englishman, but Germany and Italy threaten to break oft' business connections if this happens, and a prominent newspaper man saves the situation by running a Save Old England Campaign, and making the need for a new