Close Up (Jul-Dec 1930)

Page scan 000286 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jul-Dec 1930
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000286
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 near to the modern observer, to the massed millions of toilers, the builders of socialism. The film will be part talking, part sound. The mounting of the film Igdenbu has been finished. The director is Bek-Nazarov, the cameraman Bloom. The film was made in the far east and depicts the life of the tribe of the Golds. At the Leningrad studio the film The Sleeping Beauty, after the scenario of G. Alexandrov, has been finished. The mise en scene is by directors S. and G. Vasiliev. The subject is the role of art in the period of reconstruction. Director Esfir Shub has finished the mounting of the film Today. Into the film have entered fragments of material shot in the most important commercial centres of the U.S.S.R. and news reel material taken during the last few years in Western Europe, America and the colonies. Director O. Preobrazhenskaya, creator of the film The Women of Ryazan, has finished work on the film The Silent Don, after the well-known novel of M. Sholokhov. In the main roles are the players Zessarskaya Podgorny and others. On the invitation of the cinema section of VOKS Mr. Ippei Fukuro, the editor of the Japanese motion picture magazine Cinema-Dziumpo, visited the U.S.S.R. In connection with his arrival Voks arranged a series of lectures and previews of Japanese films of recent release (the film How Did She Get That Way? by the director Sudzuki and the Japanese animated cartoon Ohio Janii " (that is, pictures not drawn, but snipped out of coloured paper), the work of the artist Ofudzi. Addresses were read by Professor Kim and Konrad. Mr. Fukuro is the author of the Japanese translations of the 182