The cameraman / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; an Edward Sedgwick production ; story by Clyde Bruckman and Lew Lipton ; a Buster Keaton production ; directed by Edward Sedgwick.

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 hi...

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Uniform Title:Cameraman (Motion picture : 1928)
Criterion collection ; 1033.
Corporate Authors: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Presenter, Production company)
Criterion Collection (Firm) (Film distributor)
Other Authors: Sedgwick, Edward, 1892-1953 (Film producer, Film director)
Keaton, Buster, 1895-1966 (Film producer, Actor)
Bruckman, Clyde, 1894-1955 (Screenwriter)
Lipton, Lew, 1893-1961 (Screenwriter)
Lanning, Reggie (director of photography.)
Lessley, Elgin, 1883-1944 (director of photography.)
Wynn, Hugh (Film editor)
Day, Marceline (Actor)
Goodwin, Harold, 1902-1987 (Actor)
Bracey, Sidney, 1877-1942 (Actor)
Gribbon, Harry, 1885-1961 (Actor)
Language:No linguistic content
Language and/or Writing System:
Silent film with English intertitles and musical accompaniment.
Published: [New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2020]
Series:Criterion collection ; 1033.
Subjects:
Photojournalists > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
Secretaries > Drama.
Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) > Drama.
Chinese Americans > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
Tongs (Secret societies) > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
Silent films.
Comedy films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Genre:
Drama.
Silent films.
Comedy films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Physical Description:2 videodiscs (69 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Format: Video DVD
Description
Summary:
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.
Note:Title from title frame.
Originally produced as a motion picture in the United States and released in 1928.
Full screen (1.37:1).
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.
Accompanied by a booklet featuring an essay, "Man with a movie camera", by film critic Imogen Sara Smith, and a chapter from Keaton's 1960 autobiography cowritten with Charles Samuels.
Call Number:PN1995.9.J6 C36 2020 VideoDVD
Audience:
Rating: Not rated.
ISBN:9781681437316
1681437317
Credits:Directors of photography, Elgin Lessley and Reggie Lanning ; film editor, Hugh Wynn ; score composed and conducted by Timothy Brock.
System Details:DVD; region 1, NTSC; full screen (1.37:1).
Cast:
Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin, Sidney Bracey, Harry Gribbon.