Close Up (Mar-Dec 1931)

Page scan 00053 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Mar-Dec 1931
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
00053
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 47 The Strange Adventure of David Gray." A new film by Carl Dreyer. " L'Etrange A venture de David Gray." Un nouveau film de Carl Dreyer. Das selfsame Erlebnis des David Gray." Ein neuer Film von Carl Dreyer. Photo : FilmProduction Carl Dreyer. intelligence and care can make them, so that their educational worth in this respect is at once as evident as it is emphatic. Blinded for the time by the fictional romances dominating these films, as well as by the Hollywood personalities associated with them, and led astray, also, by the theatrical auspices under which the pictures have been presented, educators and advocates of visual instruction have failed to realize that much of the very material for which they have been seeking is already in existence and obtainable at a cost far below that which would be entailed in the special creating of it. However, this realisation is now dawning upon them, and with it has come the conviction that thousands of feet of usuable and useful film are lying buried in the Hollywood vaults, merely awaiting resurrection and proDer assemblage to make them available for the classroom. When the project of thus turning such film to account was brought to the attention of the motion picture Acauemy, it was at once considered worthy of a trial. Under the sponsorship of the Academy's Committee on College Affairs an editing committee was chosen from local school officials, and the outcome of their initial endeavour has been the assembling of a film under the general title of In the Days of Chivalry. This consists of a total of 885 feet, comprising some thirty-five edited scenes or incidents from Douglas Fairbanks' eight-reel picture of Robin Hood, produced some ten years ago. Already a large number of school and colleges throughout the country