Close Up (Jan-Jun 1930)

Page scan 000590 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 #:
000590
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 emulsion to emulsion, so that light coming through the lens of the camera shines against the celluloid side of the front film. The front film is covered with an emulsion which records the blue and green end of the spectrum. In other words, a blue-green picture of the object in front of the camera lens is recorded on the front film. The emulsion on the front tilm is surface dyed red, which acts as a colour filter for the emulsion on the second film.'' A red-orange picture is recorded on the back film. Both films are printed on opposite sides of a double coated film. The pictures on one side of the film are turned orange-red and, on the other side, blue green. A special tvpe of shellac protects the double coating from scratches, etcetera. Sound technique chapters do not break much fresh ground. There is lots of theory — the less our senses receive, the more our personalities must contribute to the understanding of the object presented I Other text books have here proceeded. The book ends with a glossary of such bewildering terms as blope, meaning to eliminate foreign sounds from a film. There is an Appendix of sets, available at the big studios, and a list of motion picture periodicals. The beginner is advised to adapt his settings and plots to the selling mode I Here endeth the valuable survey of Pitkin and Marston. Students of the American mind will set it beyond price. OSWELL BlAKESTON'. 406