Buster Keaton's THE CAMERAMAN is the comic's last great silent film, a hilarious and touching story about the misadventures of a would-be newsreel cameraman in Manhattan.
A hapless tintype photographer named Buster (Buster Keaton) meets a pretty girl named Sally (Marceline Day) who works for the MGM-Hearst newsreel department, but he loses her in a parade. He goes to the MGM building to find her and asks if he can get a job as a newsreel cameraman. She tells him he
should buy a new camera, so he pawns his tintype for a broken-down $125 movie camera. Back at the MGM office, the boss tells Buster to get lost, but he overhears a call reporting a warehouse fire, and...
Released:
1928
Rated:
NR
Length:
70 mins