A comedy treasure, almost lost

Buster Keaton stars as a hapless aspiring newsreel maker with eyes for Marceline Day in The Cameraman, his first film for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The National Film Registry made this movie one of its honorees in 2005, calling it “the last of Buster Keaton’s silent comedy classics”.

The Cameraman joins the public domain in 33 days. We’re lucky to have it still around. MGM’s copies were destroyed in a 1965 vault fire, but years later other prints were found elsewhere.

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1 Response to A comedy treasure, almost lost

  1. smd2006's avatar smd2006 says:

    Really excited for this to become public domain! One of my favorite movies that I discovered this year.

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