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- ↑ "BFI Screenonline: Early Film Criticism". www.screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved Aug 9, 2022.
- ↑ "All Voices – Close Up". Archived from the original on 2013-12-14. Retrieved 2011-04-05.
- ↑ Donald et al. 1998, p. 324.
- ↑ "Along these lines, the collection reprints an admiring essay on Elsie Cohen's ambitious Academy Cinema, as well as polemics about worker's films, art films, and so forth." Donald et al. 1998 , p. 324.
- ↑ Coxhead 1933, pp. 133–6.
- ↑ "Initial matter". Close up. X (4): 309. December 1933.
- ↑ "Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road", in Survey of London: Volumes 33 and 34, St Anne Soho, ed. F H W Sheppard (London, 1966), pp. 296-312. Accessed 23 February 2016.
- ↑ "Desmond Zwemmer". Daily Telegraph, 6 October 2000. Accessed 27 February 2016.
- ↑ This is the address of Albany Mansion, a block of shops with chambers above, previously a bank. [8] Zwemmer (and later his son Desmond) also owned a bookshop and gallery at 79 Charing Cross Road. [9]
- Bibliography
- Coxhead, E. (June 1933). "Towards a co-operative cinema: The Work of the Academy, Oxford Street". Close up. X (2). London: Pool Group: 135.
- Donald, James; Friedberg, Anne; Marcus, Laura, eds. (1998). Close up, 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism. A&C Black. ISBN 0691004633.
