The Cameraman 1928 G
The Cameraman 1928 G
35MM, BLACK AND WHITE, SILENT (LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT), 75 MINUTES, USA, ENGLISH / DIRECTOR: EDWARD SEDGWICK / SCRIPT: CLYDE BRUCKMAN, BYRON SCHAYER / CINEMATOGRAPHER: REGGIE LANNING, ELGIN LESSLEY / EDITOR: HUGH WYNN / CAST: BUSTER KEATON, MARCELINE DAY, HAROLD GOODWIN / PRODUCTION CO: METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER (MGM) / PRINT SOURCE/RIGHTS: NATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO LENDING SERVICE / SCREENING FORMAT: 16MM
‘[Buster] Keaton's penultimate feature film as co-director (uncredited) and lead actor has him playing a tintype street photographer who is determined to become a cameraman so that he can win the affections of the girl in the newsreel company's office. He fails and when all seems lost a resourceful monkey comes to his aid. If Sherlock Junior is Keaton's reflection on the nature of cinematic illusion focused on the projected image, The Cameraman is his reflection on the relationship between artifice and realism which focuses on the process of filming.’ National Film and Video Lending Service
‘Unlike Harold Lloyd, Keaton was able to film only a few scenes in New York, faking all the rest back in Hollywood’ Richard Koszarski
Contact: Sunday 5 July 11.00am / Cinema A
Phone: Production still from The Cameraman 1928
Image courtesy: British Film Institute
