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 #:
000309
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:
November 07, 2023
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CLOSE UP 291 FILMWORK IN VIENNA. There is work again in the film studios of Vienna. German, French and even Austrian firms produce their films here, actors from all countries find work, and for a time it looks in Vienna's biggest studio — the Sascha studio — as if the unemployment problem had been solved. That is of course an illusion only — a dream which exists for the time of one's visit to the studio. Just now a film is being finished in Vienna which — when it will be shown in the cinemas of the world — wiU certainly help to make Austria and Vienna popular. Maria Jeritza, one of the best and most popular opera singers of Vienna who is known all over the world and who has enchanted both Europe and America by her voice, and Paul Hartmann the famous actor of the Wiener Burgtheater (the Jedermann of the Salsburg festival 1933) are the leading characters. The opera of Vienna still one of Austria's most important active properties, appears for the first time in a film. Hartmann was to be seen several times on the screen already, and has attracted the attention of the film public in the film version of the Rosenkavalier. Also in smaller parts the Burg and the Oper are represented. Franz Lehar — known to the world as the composer of Viennese operettas wrote the music ; — in short : We see the " Viennese note " which is so much wanted abroad, is represented in this film in a worthier way than it is in most of the many so-called Viennese films. TRAVELLING CINEMA FOR THE COUNTRY NEW COMPANY IN BRISTOL. A mobile cinema is to be put on the road to travel the larger villages and small towns in the West of England where there is no permanent cinema. The promoters of the scheme, Mobile Talkies and Sound Equipment, Ltd., have formed a new company with headquarters in Bristol. ALIBIS A vast number of people with insincere jobs are employed in the big studios so that the other man can always be in the wrong. It works this way. The scenario editor passes a hopeless story because he can get a low estimate on