The cameraman

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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.

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ISBN:

9781681437316

Uniform Title:

Cameraman (Motion picture : 1928)

Description:

2 videodiscs (69 min.) : DVD video, silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
digital
optical
videodisc
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1
monochrome

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: NR

Notes:

Title from title frame
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1928
Full screen (1.33:1)
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 ; an essay by film critic Imogen Sara Smith
Region 1, NTSC; full screen (1.33:1)
Wardrobe by David Cox ; photographed by Reggie Lanning, Elgin Lessley ; film editor, Hugh Wynn
Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin, Sidney Bracey, Harry Gribbon
DVD
Silent film

LCCN:

be2020008503

Control Number:

3013001

UPC:

715515247412

Other Authors:

Bracey, Sidney, 1877-1942, actor
Bruckman, Clyde, 1894-1955, screenwriter
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor
Day, Marceline, actor
Goodwin, Harold, 1902-1987, actor
Gribbon, Harry, 1885-1961, actor
Keaton, Buster, 1895-1966, film producer, actor
Lanning, Reggie, director of photography
Lessley, Elgin, 1883-1944, director of photography
Lipton, Lew, 1893-1961, screenwriter
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, presenter, production company
Sedgwick, Edward, 1892-1953, film director
Wynn, Hugh, film editor

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