The Cameraman

Don’t miss this amazing silent comedy staring Buster Keaton

The Cameraman is a 1928 American silent comedy directed by Edward Sedgwick . The picture stars Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin, and others.

The Cameraman was Keaton’s first film with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is considered by fans and critics to be Keaton still in top form, and it was added to the National Film Registry in 2005 as being deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

Within a little over a year, however, MGM would take away Keaton’s creative control over his pictures, thereby causing drastic and long-lasting harm to his career. Keaton was later to call the move to MGM “the worst mistake of my career.”^[2]

Prints of the movie disappeared and it was considered lost. However, a print of the entire film was discovered in Paris in 1968. Another print, of much higher quality, although missing some footage, was discovered in 1991. The two prints were combined into a best-available quality version which is regularly screened around the world.