![]() The supplementary material contains an audio commentary on The Cameraman recorded in 2004 by Glenn Mitchell, author of A-Z of Silent Film Comedy: An Illustrated Companion Time Travelers, a new documentary by Daniel Raim featuring interviews with John Bengtson and film historian Marc Wanamaker Spite Marriage (1929), Buster Keaton’s next feature for MGM after The Cameraman, in a new 2K restoration, with a 2004 commentary by film historians John Bengtson and Jeffrey Vance So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM, a 2004 documentary by film historians Kevin Brownlow and Christopher Bird The Motion Picture Camera (1979), a documentary by A.S.C. The film is accomanpied by a lively new score by composer Timothy Brock, conducted by Brock and performed by the orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in 2020, presented in uncompressed stereo. Image stabilization and dust removal has been performed, and the greyscale range of the scans are evenly balanced. A second generation, fine-grain 35mm positive from MGM, with footage from a 35mm positive of MGM’s Big Parade of Comedy, comprise the best materials utilized for the high-definition 4K scans, with the first three reels scanned from a very-good 16mm reduction print held by the Library of Congress. This Blu-ray Disc edition has been produced from a digital restoration undertaken by the Cineteca di Bologna, the Criterion Collection, and Warner Bros. Ratings (1-10): video: 8 / audio: 8 / additional content: 7 / overall: 7. One single-sided, single-layered, Region A Blu-ray Disc, 1.37:1 aspect ratio image in pillarboxed 19:6 (1920 x 1080 pixels) progressive scan AVC (MPEG-4) format, SDR (standard dynamic range), 31.6 Mbps average video bit rate, 2.3 Mbps audio bit rate, LPCM 48 kHz 24bit 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 18 chapter stops standard BD keepcase $39.95. ![]() The Criterion Collection, CC3158BD, collection number 1033, With Spite Marriage (1929), black & white, 76 minutes, not rated. The Cameraman (1928), black & white, 69 minutes, not rated, Today, the film survives largely complete in 35mm and 16mm duplicate materials that range from very-good to excellent. ![]() According to reports, approximately three minutes of footage are presumed lost. The original camera negative for The Cameraman survived for many years but was lost in an MGM vault fire in 1951. Goodwin is functional as a rival, as he was in Keaton’s College (1927), but Harry Gribbon stands out in the supporting cast as a befuddled policeman. Marceline Day is something more than a supporting prop as a leading lady to Buster, thanks to MGM’s insistence on story development. When Sally is endangered by the self-absorbed stupidity of a rival (Harold Goodwin), Buster comes to the rescue and eventually comes through with the real newsreel goods, thanks to an organgrinder’s monkey.īuster is quite funny and looks rather dapper in his dark broad-rimmed hat that was a conscious departure from his signature pork-pie hat. His ineptness causes him to not only lose an opportunity to pick up a lucrative job as a newsreel cinematographer but also to lose his chance at a relationship with Sally, the girl. Despite being forced to work from a tighter scripted shooting plan, the film is still heavily-sprinkled with Keaton’s inventive improvizational gags.Ī meek and bumbling street portrait photographer (Buster Keaton) tries to impress a girl ( Marceline Day) who works in a newsreel office by becoming a newsreel photographer. However, still rolling forward from his creative independent productions of the mid-1920s, The Cameraman (1928) played like another great Buster Keaton film. Ultimately, the change to MGM resulted in a stranglehold on Keaton’s comic creativity, with the ultimate perversion of his screen persona and a disasterous teaming with nightclub performer Jimmy Durante. At first, the move promised bigger production budgets and wider distribution worldwide for Buster’s films. (1928), Buster Keaton became a contract performer at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer when his independent contact was sold by producer (and brother-in-law) Joseph Schenck. Reviews of silent film releases on home video.Īfter completing Steamboat Bill, Jr. ![]() Silent Era Home Page > Home Video > The Cameraman
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