Close Up, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from Close Up, Vol. 1: July, 1927Fifty Odd years hasn't done so badly in getting an art into the world that fifty more will probably turn into the art, but now, after somewhat magnificent growth, one feels here is its critical age. Its humble Pier Penny Peep Show begin ning is still far too evident, and one sees that'in avery short while the thing that people now go to see will have become tradition, and standard, as the past tense in literature, har mony in music, and representative conventions in painting. Public was right enough for public when it began by saying Films are trash. They went on being trash, but more pom pous trash, and the public took to them. It was all purely box office stunts. Art had nothing to do with it. That was all perfectly alright. I went myself solemnly at the age of nine and watched stockades being burned by Indians in one reel, and although I wasn't sold on what I had gone to look at, I got the mesmerism of the thing, and something quite apart from purely conscious felt, oh yes, this is right, this is apt. This belongs.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.