Excerpt from Close Up, Vol. 5: The Only Magazine Devoted to Films as an Art; July, 1929 Nobody would believe, from a scrutiny of film conditions at this present time, that Close Up could be enjoying yet another birthday. Yet here we are, unweakened by attrition or starvation, once more going forth - kind of Zodiacal Aries - butting with horns, stamping with hooves, lacking only a dragon's fire to scorch our enemies. This is again a happy anniversary, and Aries is growing to a big ram. His woolly head is wiser and his rounded horns have grown hard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.