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The cameraman [videorecording (DVD)].

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Criterion Collection, 2020.

Criterion collection ; 1033.

[videorecording (DVD)].

Two-DVD special ed.

2 videodiscs (69 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., b&w ; 12 cm. + 1 folded sheet insert.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1928.

Two-DVD special edition features: New 4K digital restoration ; score composed and conducted by Timothy Brock and performed by the orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and I Virtuosi Italiani in 2020 ; audio commentary from 2004 featuring Glenn Mitchell, author of A-Z of silent film comedy : an illustrated companion ; Spite marriage (1929), Buster Keaton's next feature for MGM following The cameraman, in a new 2K restoration, with a 2004 commentary by film historians John Bengtson and Jeffrey Vance ; new documentary "Time travelers" by Daniel Raim featuring interviews with Bengtson and film historian Marc Wanamaker ; documentary "So funny it hurt : Buster Keaton & MGM" (2004) by film historians Kevin Brownlow and Christopher Bird; new interview with James L. Neibaur, author of "The fall of Buster Keaton" ; PLUS: an essay by film critic Imogen Sara Smith and a chapter from Keaton's 1960 autobiography, cowritten with Charles Samuels.

Silent with English intertitles and musical score.

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture ; story by Lew Lupton ; adaptation by Ernest S. Paginao ; directed by Edward Sedgwick.

Buster Keaton with Marceline Day.

"Buster Keaton is at the peak of his slapstick powers in The Cameraman the first film that the silent-screen legend made after signing with MGM, and his last great masterpiece. 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. Along the way, he goes for a swim (and winds up soaked), becomes embroiled in a Chinatown Tong War, and teams up with a memorable monkey sidekick (the famous Josephine). The marvelously inventive film-within-a-film setup allows Keaton's imagination to run wild, yielding both sly insights into the travails of moviemaking and an emotional payoff of disarming poignancy."--Container.

Sedgwick, Edward, 1892-1953.

Keaton, Buster, 1895-1966.

Day, Marceline.

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