Close Up (Jan-Jun 1930)

Page scan 000200 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 #:
000200
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 when Daniela at the critical moment, marches to the rescue with two gigantic hounds. Then all march together to the town hall and make such a noise (aided by the dogs barking) that they finally capture the old clothes-dealer and compel him to get the bye-law repealed so that the cats are safe again. And the Tertia is reconciled. I objected to my friends that it would be unlikely that any school could disappear for the larger part of the night, unchecked, but was informed that in such a community, it might well be possible as the leaders would probably have arranged with authority beforehand and explanation of their objective would not always be necessary. My friends, however, objected to the " militaristic " aspects of the film, the boys marching in rows, the general precision, etc. It did not strike me as more militaristic than any English girls' school, but then England has not had conscription (except during the war) and there is probably not the deeply rooted aversion to anything that could suggest the pre-war army, that I found prevalent across Germany and Austria. That the school was controlled by a tradition of the rigid unprogressive type of the average English Public School was obvious, and this as I have said, was the great defect of the film. But the scenes along the sea coast and of the animals in the small town and many of the sequences with the boys were excellent and thoroughly to be recommended for children's performances. There was a big descrepancy between the girl (a professional cinema actress) trying to smile in shorts like any Hollywood bathing girl, and the naturalism of the children. ^Boris was played by G. Stark-Gstetten Dauer the small boy in the Frau im Mond. I was unable to find out how many of the 132