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The Cameraman (1928)
In co-director/actor Buster Keaton's great comedy,
his first film with a major studio:
- the character of photographer Buster (Buster Keaton
himself) who became a newsreel-cameraman to win over pretty MGM
secretary Sally (Marceline Day)
- the embarrassing screening of Buster's first test
film reel - a series of double-exposed footage that showed a battleship
floating down a street, and pedestrians being run over by buses and
cars
- the famous, fully-improvised, pantomimed one-man baseball
game (filmed at Yankee Stadium)
- the classic, small-scale changing-room bathhouse scene:
in the crowded men's locker room of a public swimming pool, Buster
was confronted in one of the tiny cubicle-booths by a burly man (Edward
Brophy) who wasn't willing to compromise and share the small space;
when Buster asserted: "This is my dressing room!",
the man threatened: "Shut up... or it'll be your coffin!";
Buster was forced into a corner, became entangled in the man's suspenders
and clothing, and eventually ended up on the man's back, who complained: "Will
you keep out of my undershirt?"
Bathhouse Changing Scene - and The Loss of Buster's
Ill-Fitting Swim-Suit
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- the funny visual sight of Buster exiting the bath-house
dressing room, wearing an oversized, ill-fitting bathing costume,
and losing his suit in the public pool after attempting to impress
Sally with a fancy dive (and staying underwater to hide being naked),
including diving deep to avoid Sally's request: "Let's get
out of here and go walking on the beach"
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Double-Exposed Footage
Viewing of First
Test Film Reel
One-Man Baseball Game
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