On The Cameraman Buster finally threw away the script MGM imposed on him (along with 22 office staff writers and a number of amateur gagmen), and improvised the scenes that add up to one of his greatest films. All the elements of Keaton's art and metaphysic are fused in a story that permits Buster no end of Pirandelloesque pyrotechnics. He plays a New York City newsreel cameraman whose love life is as jumbled as the mixed-up footage he shoots of doormen mistaken for generals and Tong Wars in Chinatown. In an astonishing if inadvertent testament to the principles of cinéma-verité, he proves himself in the end--to girl and boss.