Buster becomes a newsreel cameraman in order to win the love of a girl who works for MGM. "A newsreel by Buster Keaton of a newsreel by Buster Keaton: with Sherlock, Jr., The Cameraman is his most self­reflexive 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 one­man baseball game, acrobatic competitions with mass transportation, and a change into a bathing suit in, to say the least, straitened circumstances." (William Nestrick)