“‘A newsreel by Buster Keaton of a newsreel by Buster Keaton.' With Sherlock, Jr., The Cameraman is his most self-reflexive film. Trying to ‘make it' in the Hearst Newsreel Company, Citizen Keaton finally photographs a Tong War in Chinatown and a boating accident, and astonishingly forecasts the issues of contemporary documentary theory. Along the way we are treated to sublime Buster Bits: a one-man baseball game, acrobatic competitions with mass transportation, and a change into a bathing suit in, to say the least, straitened circumstances.” William
Nestrick