Close Up (Mar-Dec 1931)

Page scan 000253 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 #:
000253
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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COMMENT AND REVIEW. CLOSE UP SENT BY POST. Copies of Close Up sent by post to subscribers or otherwise, are carefully packed and addresses three times cross checked. In view of the care taken at our end, we are unable to accept responsibility for any postal packets which may fail to reach their destination. Subscribers are respectfully reminded that orders sent through the post can be dispatched only at their own risk. NEWS FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA Mr. Julius Schmitt, representative of United Artists in Prague, has an intention of producing two great national and biographic pictures on his own account. One of them will show the life of Karel Havlicek Borovsky, a Czech revolutionary poet, the other will be the picturisation of the life of Bedrich Smetana, the famous Czech composer. This last picture will show also the great national events of his days, as the premiere of Bartered Bride in Prague, 1866. The scenario of Karel Havlicek Borovsky, which will be directed by S. Inneman, has been written by J. Neuberg and F. Tichy. The picture Bedrich Smetana will be produced in October under the direction of Gustav Machaty. * * * Mr. Mac Fric, young Czech director who is now collaborating with Karel Lamac in Paris, has signed a contract with the society Gloria-film to direct its new sound and talking picture The Good Soldier Schweik, which will be produced in Prague in the early autumn of this year. * * * Mr. V. Wasserman, who is responsible for almost all the scenarios of Anny Ondras' pictures, has gone to Paris to prepare there in collaboration with Karel Lamac the scenario of a new Czech and German talking picture of Vlasta Burian, You Should Know Hadimrska. Karel Lamac will be the director of this picture to be produced in Prague in August. The society Sonor film has produced an industrial and educational picture called Steel — the material of future. It shows the complete production of steel as well as the development of architecture from its primitive beginnings to the most modern steel construction of the palace of the mining society " Banska a hutni " in Prague. * * * 239