Close Up (Mar-Dec 1933)

Page scan 000211 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Mar-Dec 1933
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000211
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 199 Sister-Tutors and Nurses; Surgery, Veterinary Surgery — these make the group headings of the index ! It had been found that, in the medical motion picture, the man behind the camera should have an understanding of the subject based on a detailed knowledge of the work in hand. The technique of the Cine-Kodak has been reduced to fundamentals, so that if the camera is held steadily, the focus set and the lens aperature adjusted in accordance with a few simple instructions, the result is a photographically correct record of the subject. Kodak's Medical Department undertake the production of pictures outside their own studio. The inclusive charge for 300 feet is £12 — all taking costs, laboratory and editing expenses : and it must be remembered that the stock is 16 m/m. O. B. " QUICKSILVER " Len Lye planned a colour picture, Quicksilver. Laura Riding wrote the words. John Aldridge did about forty colour sketches of scenes. Six of these sketches were included in Aldridge's exhibition at the Leicester Gallery. The titles are : Entrance to Undersea Cabaret, Waterspouts and Clouds form into a Temple, Cloud Circus, The last 'bus home from the South Pole, Entrance-hall of Temple, Venus returns to the Sea-Surface. The colours are softly penetrable, making the kind of world which we would like to enter. Forms are spun out of eddies of force and place the colour film in line with systems of philosophic thought. Appearance and reality, mind and body, the " electronic jump " — such problems can all be resolved (not necessarily in Quicksilver but suggested by these designs) in the colour film medium. Film Societies which wish to back film creators are advised to apply to Len Lye who holds an elaborate shooting script of Quicksilver with margin drawings. O. B. IT'S A RACKET We've got to keep on hammering these publicity men just as long as they keep on turning out their sleep-walking drivel. To make our hits more belh" aching we aren't going to spare names this time. So here's some more genuine extracts from the new publicity sheets. NUMBER ONE. " Lee Tracey, playing the lead in Private Jones, takes the biscuit. He asked his current girl friend for an opinion on a magazine story written about him. The " Payoff " is in the title : Four Reasons Why I Won't Marry. The girl friend's opinion isn't given out for publication." Perhaps it's a new religion?