Close Up (Jan-Jun 1930)

Page scan 000201 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 #:
000201
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 others had faced a camera previously. The bulk I imagine had not. Had the film been pruned and made entirely by school children and enthusiastic amateurs it would have been one of the most interesting* experiments made to date. As it was, I kept feeling they had remembered " entertainment angles " just as things were getting interesting. It would have been improved, too, by panchromatic stock. (The copy I saw was old and dropping to pieces). The children in the audience loved it. It would certainly be worth while bringing it to London if only as a demonstration of German school mentality as opposed to English, being careful, of course, to allow for the romantic elements precisely as the English child allows for these in any school storv it may be reading. As the customs dues, however, would amount to about a hundred pounds odd and as it is a film for children and educationalists, and not the general public, it is unlikely to be shown in England. (Under the conditions pertaining abroad it could be shown for a limited number of performances for a customs' fee of from three to ten pounds). And besides it would probably be censored, for there is one shot of a frightened kitten being let out of its basket and the censor's regulations state that cruelty to animals may not be displayed on the screen. Kampf der Tertia is a Bruckmann Verleih film, made for Terra and directed by AI. Alack. The address of Terra is Kochstrasse 73, Berlin, S.W.68, should any schools desire to make enquiries about it. Bryher. 133