The Cameraman

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Date: January 01, 1928 to December 31, 1928
Dates Note: 1928
Country of Origin: United States
Place of Origin: United States
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Color: B&W
Silent: Yes
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Camera Man: Buster Keaton
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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.

Authors/Roles: 
William Nestrick

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