Close Up (Jan-Jun 1930)

Page scan 000609 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 #:
000609
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 The steppe met people ver\' severely. There was snow and frost and the unwadable spring mud. There was no housing for either the people or machinery. They settled in huts, in booths and sheds. But everyone, from manager to hired-hand knew : there is a fighting command from the Government, there is a general policy of the party which must be carried out. And these hard days gave birth to heroes. People who voluntarily gave 16 hours a day to work, who ploughed, sowed and gathered a harvest of 50,850 tons of grain. On the steppes, where for thousands of years feather grass had waved, a great new factory arose — a grain factory — Giant/* It is this heroic work that the filming group wanted to picture on the screen. There are 18 brigades in the Soviet Farm. In the heat of harvesting, from 600 to 700 people work in these brigade groups. They have an original life — from earliest spring to late autumn they spend all their time on the steppes. Work, rest, dinner and even slumber — all under the open skies. Among the tractor workers there are 12 per cent, women — chieflv Komsomols. And among them are former members of Budenny's famous army division. On these fields, they chased the enemy on horseback, and to-day they are conquering these fields by steel horses. The whole picture was filmed in the sovhos Giant " at Xovorossisk, and the group worked five months. The conditions under which they worked w^ere extraordinarily difficult. But the warm participation of the brigades, their tremendous help encouraged them and made them with even greater firmness work to attain their aim. P. A. 425