Close Up (Mar-Dec 1931)

Page scan 000330 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 #:
000330
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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312 CLOSE UP the reproducer, the " noise " from the photo-electric cell depends upon the amount of light reaching it. Thus, the problem is to reduce the light falling on the photo-electric cell as much as possible when small sounds are being reproduced, but proportionally to increase it for the reproduction of louder sounds. Western Electric accomplish this by recording a negative sound track which is very light in the silent portions, but which becomes much darker with the increase of sound intensity. Additional recording Negative print by Eric Gray. " Negatif" d" Eric Gray. Negaiiv, von Eric Gray. apparatus required consists of one amplifier and one noise-reduction-controlpanel. Gastone Frediani has invented a method of recording without photoelectric cells. The sound is photographed directly onto the edge of the film. The band of photographed images of sound is made of fine particles of silver possessing more or less electrical conductivity. The grid circuit of the first low-frequency amplifier is electrically connected with the film by means of a device of two electrical contacts, in the form of metal drums, placed at a certain distance from each other and electrically insulated. Since the film need not be transparent for the success of this system, it has been suggested that it be made of oil-cloth or paper. H. von Madaler has a system of recording mechanically, exactly like a gramophone record. Engraving is done in celluloid instead of wax. The record can be immediately replayed and reproduced 250 times without loss of quality. Another interesting, if irrelevant, idea in recording, is the multiple sound track reproduction on film of radio programmes. The length of film is limited to 128 feet with loops running continuously between two magazines. A revolution completed, the mechanism moves slightly across the face of the film so that an adjacent track can be recorded. (This may squirt PANIC into the gramophone business for operatic selections have been recorded in parallel tracks on 16 mm. films.) A 128 loop of normal stock