Close Up (Oct 1920 - Sep 1923)

Page scan 00094 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Oct 1920 - Sep 1923
Volume:
Close-Up (1920, 1921, 1922, 1923)
Leaf #:
00094
Language:
English
Collection:
Switzerland, Early Cinema, and Global Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
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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12 = Marshall Lorimer M Editor and Prop, “CLOSE-UP” The Magazine of Movie Land Issued the 5th and 20th of Each Month Editorial and Business Office: 603 Western Mutual Life Bldg., (formerly Exchange Bldg.) 321 West Third Street. Telephone 820-609. 1 SUBSCRIPTION RATE: ONE YEAR TWO Advertising Rates on Contract Basis DOLLARS 1 H Checks Should Be Made Payable to “Close-Up” = H All manuscripts and Contributions Should be Addressed to the Editor M HELENE LYNCH Ingenue Lead J. L. Frothingham is about to produce a picture entitled, “The Vengeance of the Deep.” Has this anything to do with the three-mile limit? queries H. H. Van Loan. A NEW COMPANY O Another Los Angeles independent motion picture producing concern has renounced its eastern distributing affiliations and has added a distributing branch to its local headquarters. The latest concern to market its own wares is the O’Conor Productions, producers of a new series of Billy Franey two-reel comedies. These productions, of which the first six have been completed, will be twentysix in number. They will be published bi-monthly and delivered direct to the state rights .exchanges throughout America from the O’Conor plant at the Caswell studios, Hollywood. F. E. Samuels, former manager of the Los Angeles Clune exchange, is general sales manager. He will arrive on the eastern territory the first week in June to establish a branch office in New York. Billy Franey’s principal feminine support in this series consists of Gale Henry, Vera Reynolds and Ena Gregory. Robert O’Conor is head of the firm bearing his name, while Gus Schumacher is general manager. We are featuring — NOVELTY WEAVES in STRIPES, and o'verplaid designs. TWEED SUITINGS, and WHIPCORD WEAVES— that are so popular this Season. TAILORED TO YOUR PERSONALITY Lou Gvom&n & Co. Tailors 532 South Broadway THRU THE EYES OF LOVE By Marshall Lorimer Each wayward fancy has for me A zest beyond mere words, Each breath of spring that’s blown to me New strength my heart engirds. The shades of green which meet mine eyes. Hold something far beyond; Their tints recall that fresh surprise! ( When we, their beauties conned!) The sapphire sky seemed mighty nigh The color of your eyes! The sordid, seemed to pass us by In wonderment and sighs! The rankest weeds held odors sweet, The grass seemed beautiful! And music was the lambkins bleat, T o hearts ecstatical. For earth and sky combined that day In sheer felicity, To place fresh beauties in our way, As by conspiracy. And when the shades of gloaming spread Their many varied hues Of russet gold in sun-set red, Commingled with strange blues — • When birds in liquid melody Gave voice their thousand notes, T o wild triumphant rapsody That charmed their gurgling throats — Twas then my halting tongue gave vent T o love’s great master stroke, My sluggish lips grew eloquent As if to magic woke. Thy thrilling lips an answer graced Where language seemed amiss, Your dear existence you there placed Within your spring wooed kiss. “Paul” Parrott’s next vehicle will be a laundry story, with the working title “The Tail of a Shirt,” which J. A. Howe will direct and which will be a costume picture. Mr. Parrott will be a “cop,” Jobyna Ralston will don oriental garb and be a Chinese beaut}' and Eddie Baker will be a “hard boiled” Chinaman. The comedian is now finishing work on a tenement story which Jim Davis is directing.