Close Up (Oct 1920 - Sep 1923)

Page scan 000274 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Oct 1920 - Sep 1923
Volume:
Close-Up (1920, 1921, 1922, 1923)
Leaf #:
000274
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 COfA*^ Z--S JUST BETWEEN OURSELVES “CLOSE-UP” Marshall Lorimer Editor and Prop. 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. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: ONE YEAR TWO DOLLARS Advertising Rates on Contract Basis Checks Should Be Made Payable to “Close-Up” All manuscripts and Contributions Should be Addressed to the Editor REALISM IN THE MOVIES Director Beaumont, who is wielding the megaphone on “Main Street’ for the Warner Brothers, means to use all the time he can in production. For the last three days he has been filming a small-towm party. To save time he just has the property department serve a full meal right on the dining room set on which he is working and then away clicks the cameras while the actors are eating. “That’s the scene,” says Beaumont,, “and in this case realism in the movies is helping a lot because it is always hard to get the people started working after a full meal.” IT’S FINISHED Q Filming of the Allen Holubar special production, “Slander the Woman,” formerly titled “The White Frontier,” has been completed at the United Studios following a long period of night and day work. The production, which stars Dorothy Phillips, supported by Lewis Dayton, an English actor of renown, and a notable cast, is now being cut and edited by Frank Lawrence under the personal supervision of Mr. Holubar who will ship the finished negative to the home office of .Associated First National Pictures, Inc., New York, in time for March release. BARTINE BURKETT Screen Ingenue Hugh Thompson tells this one: Chap came in the studio the other day and asked to be put in the scenario department. He said he had done picket duty in the army and thought that if the company needed a good story he could “pick it.” A Popular I. Miller Shoe The “SCANDAL” — It would seem untrue that one style in particular should have the ability, in loveliness and delicacy, to out-step any or many of the little models designed and made by I. Miller. — However, the “Scandal” here sketched is a successful captain. It has an odd and artistic forepart, three graceful straps and dainty perforations. Something to be seen and thought about. Patent Leather only. At the Ville — Fifth Floor, where I. Miller Footwear is carried exclusively in Los Angeles SEVENTH OUVE ^ MJMS CO.