Close Up (Oct 1920 - Aug 1923)

Page scan 000354 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Oct 1920 - Aug 1923
Volume:
Close-Up (1920-1923)
Leaf #:
000354
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 JUST BETWEEN OURSELVE Marshall Lorimer nCFallP” Elsie Eva Steele Editor and Prop. *-'■ Sub. Editor The Magazine of Movie Land Issued the 5th and 20th of Each Month Editorial and Business Office: g 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 s Checks Should Be Made Payable to “Close-Up” ^ All manuscripts and Contributions Should be Addressed to the Editor = THE PERSONAL CURE WHAT IS A DUMB-BELL? By Marshall Lorimer There’s a time of obsession. And one of depression, That everyone feels now and then; We fail to get broader, In fancied disorder — We carry it with us, and when We fail to make headway, The best we can all say Is “We’re hampered by envious men.” There’s no use conniving ’Gainst Nature and striving To get to the top of the tree. When effort is lacking, The whole-hearted backing That comes in a mind that is free Of its venomous poison, That fills the horizon And takes away that — which should be. The paramount blessing Is knowledge progressing To something you wish to achieve. Then when you’ve succeeded, To know you have heeded The faith that first made you believe The purpose of living Was made more for giving To others, than what you receive. Why waste all your vapors Annoying your neighbors With grievances, illness, and such? They have their own troubles To blow into bubbles If you’ll listen to them over-much. So take what is coming With laughter and humming, With sunshine and life you’re in touch. Ruth Hiatt is appearing in the Lee Moran comedy at the Fine Arts studios. She is doing one of those simple girls from the country who falls in love with the hero. She surely knows how to wear clothes. Some of the prominent film luminaries herewith define what their ideas are of a person who has been characteried as a film dumb-bell: Finis Fox: A zero without a rim. Ralph Lewis: A sheep in wolf’s clothing. Chester Bennett: Somewhat puz zling— like — did day break when night fell? Fred Esmelton: Nobody home — multiplied by ten. Carmelita Geraghty: A big vacuum entirely surrounded by ozone. Mabel Julienne Scott: A far-away look when you are here — and a closeup look when you are far away. Jane Novak, who is being starred in "The Lullaby,” Chester Bennett’s latest production, has just received a gift from a feminine admirer in Borneo of a piece of cloth cut from her wedding gown just before the ceremony. A note from the admirer adds she felt so happy that she wanted her film favorite to be happy too. She sent the gift as an emblem of good luck. * * * Dorothy Vernon is playing Merta Sterling’s mother in a Bobby Dunn comedy with Eugene De Rue as director and under the supervision of Eddie Lyons. WARNER BROTHERS ANNOUNCE SCHEDULE Warner Bros. Studios are humming with activity in preparation for the starting of several big pictures this coming month. The first of these, “Lucretia Lombard,” a Harry Rapf production, is scheduled to start shooting the last week in July. Monte Blue and Irene Rich will be co-starred, with Jack Conway handling the megaphone. Johnny Hines’ company will be the next to start, and “Conductor 1492,” which is the name of his newest picture, will be in production the first week in August. William A. Seiter will direct “How to Educate a Wife,” an Elinor Glyn story. The script is now being prepared by Grant Carpenter and casting will begin next week. Mae Marsh and Claude Gillingwater will head an all-star cast in “Daddies,” scheduled to start in production September 1st. Harry Beaumont, director of “Main Street” and “The Gold Diggers,” will handle the megaphone for this special. Julien Josephson is writing the script. The story for Ernst Lubitsch is also in preparation. This will be Lubitsch’s second American picture, he having recently completed “Rosita” with Mary Pickford. Florence Vidor and Creighton Hale have already been cast. Dorothea Wolbert is the latest comedienne to desert the short reel fun film for work in the serious dramatic picture. She makes her debut in feature productions in Virginia Valli’s latest picture for Universal, “A Lady of Quality,” and those who have seen the finished product declare her performance is of the highest quality and assures steady work for her in pictures of this type. 0ROWN tJL CALDWELL SlND LADD PKo t o -ei\d r aVe r\s LA J S. BDWYi LOS ANGELES