Close Up (Mar-Dec 1933)

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Mar-Dec 1933
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
00089
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 SI NUMBER TWO. " Long" weeks spent in Greenland making Y, as a screen epic for X, risking death from cold, from drowning in the icy water, from being crushed by falls of ice . . . and back to civilization with a fourinch beard and a health record you would envy . . . That's Gibson Gowland. Three days in England in the comparative luxury and guaranteed comforts of civilized London and — ah-tish-oo ! That's Gibson Gowland ! ! !" NUMBER THREE. " Z, feminine interest in X's latest horror screen play, claims she can live as happily on twenty-five dollars a week as she can on twenty-five hundred." NUMBER FOUR. Off-set, we are told, the stars wear eccentric clothes — " floppy, sometimes sloppy pants!" " Mr. X is seldom without an admittedly garish ' Lido Shirt ' of eccentric red-and-white stripes, and if there is an undershirt beneath it, or if there isn't, what of it?" NUMBER FIVE. " Clyde Beatty, King of animal trainers, says wildest beasts respect man's superior brain. And will show it in X's latest Screen Sensation." O. B. Film-Studio Zurich. (Schipfe 57, Zurich). A new association has just been founded at Zurich, with the name of Film-Studio Zurich, and its aim is to present independent, artistic and avantgarde films. The annual subscription is five Swiss francs which gives the right to a reduction of fifty centimes on the ordinary prices of tickets at representations arranged bv the society. The same group have also created Le Groupement Cinematographique Franco-Suisse, in order to encourage the projection at Zurich of the most characteristic of the new French films. This will fill a gap, for at present French films are shown at Zurich only at somewhat rare intervals. For this the subscription is three Swiss francs which gives a reduction of twenty per cent, on the usual ticket prices. The activity of these two newT organisations must be of great help to the students of cinema at Zurich, and we hope that their efforts will be rewarded with success. Genossenschaft Fihndienst. (21, Erlacherstrasse, Berne). At last we have a Swiss firm of film production, and one which has begun its career, full of excellent resolutions. Where publicity has usually been confined to the incomparable pictorial qualities of Switzerland, this firm stresses the need for realism and something of the native poetry as well. Les Grenadiers du Bon Dieu, the first film the Gefi have made, was filmed in the Loetschental, with the help of only one professional actor, and with the people of the neighbourhood. We hope to comment further on this film when it has been shown. Freddy Chevalley.