The cameraman [DVD video]

The final work over which he maintained creative control, this clever farce is the culmination of an extraordinary, decade-long run that produced some of the most innovative and enduring comedies of all time. Keaton plays a hapless newsreel cameraman desperate to impress both his new employer and his winsome office crush as he zigzags up and down Manhattan hustling for a scoop.

General Note:

Title from container.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1928.

Full screen (1.33:1).

Special features: audio commentary from 2004 featuring Glenn Mitchell ; Spite marriage (1929), Buster Keaton's next feature for MGM ; Time travelers, a new documentary by Daniel Raim featuring interviews with Bengtson and film historian Marc Wanamaker ; So funny it hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM, a 2004 documentary by film historians Kevin Brownlow and Christopher Bird ; new interview with James L. Neibaur ; an essay by film critic Imogen Sara Smith.

Performers:

Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin, Sidney Bracey, Harry Gribbon.

Technical Details:

DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen (1.33:1).

Subject Term:

Photojournalists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Secretaries -- Drama.

Chinese Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Tongs (Secret societies) -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Geographic Term:

Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) -- Drama.

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