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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Buster winds up the unwilling custodian of an organ-grinding monkey, who sometimes makes life harder for Buster (he switches out the film canister with Buster's precious footage of the shootout), and sometimes helps Buster out (see ActionPet above).
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* MischiefMakingMonkey: Buster winds up the unwilling custodian of an organ-grinding monkey, who sometimes makes life harder for Buster (he switches out the film canister with Buster's precious footage of the shootout), and sometimes helps Buster out (see ActionPet above).
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* FocusGroupEnding: Originally MGM wanted Buster, Keaton's famously [[TheStoic stoic]] protagonist, to crack a smile at the camera at the end of the film. Keaton didn't like the idea, and eventually got his way when some test screenings proved that audiences didn't either.
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* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: Buster, looking for something newsworthy, goes to film a parade in Chinatown. A violent shootout between rival gangs breaks out. Buster's footage of the "Tong War" wins him the job as a newsreel cameraman.
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* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: Buster, looking for something newsworthy, goes to film a parade in Chinatown. A violent shootout between rival gangs breaks out. Buster's footage of the "Tong War" wins him the job as a newsreel cameraman.cameraman.
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* FocusGroupEnding: Originally MGM wanted Buster, Keaton's famously [[TheStoic stoic]] protagonist, to crack a smile at the camera at the end of the film. Keaton didn't like the idea, and eventually got his way when some test screenings proved that audiences didn't either.
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[[TheDanza Buster]] is a tintype photographer in New York City, who takes portraits of people on the sidewalk. He meets pretty Sally (Marceline Day), an Creator/{{MGM}} secretary, at a tickertape parade where she accompanies a squad of newsreel cameramen. Buster, enchanted with Sally, decides that he will win her heart by becoming a newsreel cameraman too. Comic hijnks ensue as Buster struggles to make it as a cameraman while romancing Sally and fending off Harold (Harold Stagg), a rival MGM cameraman and a rival for Sally's affections.
''The Cameraman'' was the first film Keaton made for MGM after leaving the world of independent filmmaking behind and signing an MGM contract. The decision to become an MGM contract player is commonly regarded as the decisive negative turning point of Keaton's career. Keaton himself called it the worst mistake he ever made, and it is certainly true that his career quickly collapsed not long after this, as MGM utterly failed to manage Keaton's transition to sound. But ''The Cameraman'' is regarded by most critics as a classic that ranks along with all the great movies that Keaton made as an independent filmmaker.
''The Cameraman'' was the first film Keaton made for MGM after leaving the world of independent filmmaking behind and signing an MGM contract. The decision to become an MGM contract player is commonly regarded as the decisive negative turning point of Keaton's career. Keaton himself called it the worst mistake he ever made, and it is certainly true that his career quickly collapsed not long after this, as MGM utterly failed to manage Keaton's transition to sound. But ''The Cameraman'' is regarded by most critics as a classic that ranks along with all the great movies that Keaton made as an independent filmmaker.
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[[TheDanza Buster]] is a tintype photographer in New York City, who takes portraits of people on the sidewalk. He meets pretty Sally (Marceline Day), an Creator/{{MGM}} secretary, at a tickertape ticker-tape parade where she accompanies a squad of newsreel cameramen. Buster, enchanted with Sally, decides that he will win her heart by becoming a newsreel cameraman too. Comic hijnks hijinks ensue as Buster struggles to make it as a cameraman while romancing Sally and fending off Harold (Harold Stagg), a rival MGM cameraman and a rival for Sally's affections.
''The Cameraman'' was the first film Keaton made for MGM after leaving the world of independent filmmaking behind and signing an MGM contract. The decision to become an MGM contract player is commonly regarded as the decisive negative turning point of Keaton's career. Keaton himself called it the worst mistake he ever made, and it is certainly true that his career quickly collapsed not long after this, as MGM utterly failed to manage Keaton's transition to sound.But However, ''The Cameraman'' is regarded by most critics as a classic that ranks along with all the great movies that Keaton made as an independent filmmaker.
''The Cameraman'' was the first film Keaton made for MGM after leaving the world of independent filmmaking behind and signing an MGM contract. The decision to become an MGM contract player is commonly regarded as the decisive negative turning point of Keaton's career. Keaton himself called it the worst mistake he ever made, and it is certainly true that his career quickly collapsed not long after this, as MGM utterly failed to manage Keaton's transition to sound.
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* BookEnds: The movie begins with the MeetCute between Buster and Sally at a tickertape parade. It ends with Sally finding Buster at another tickertape parade, kissing him, and telling him he got the job.
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* BookEnds: The movie begins with the MeetCute between Buster and Sally at a tickertape ticker-tape parade. It ends with Sally finding Buster at another tickertape ticker-tape parade, kissing him, and telling him he got the job.
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* ChekhovsGag: The scene with Buster in the changing booth that the fat man barges into is a long comic sequence, listed below in TheStateroomSketch. It pays off again with another sight gag, when Buster leaves the changing booth and is revealed to be wearing the fat man's enormous swimsuit, while the fat man is crammed into Buster's tiny swimsuit. Then it pays off ''again'' when Buster loses the fat man's loose, baggy SlipperySwimsuit in the pool.
* CueTheRain: Buster and Sally are trying to make it to dinner when Harold pulls up and offers them a ride. Buster is embarrassed when Harold puts Sally up front with him, while he gets stuck in the rumble seat in the back--which, unlike the front seats, doesn't have a top to pull up. Naturally, the heavens let loose with rain.
* CueTheRain: Buster and Sally are trying to make it to dinner when Harold pulls up and offers them a ride. Buster is embarrassed when Harold puts Sally up front with him, while he gets stuck in the rumble seat in the back--which, unlike the front seats, doesn't have a top to pull up. Naturally, the heavens let loose with rain.
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* ChekhovsGag: The scene with Buster in the changing booth that the fat man barges into is a long comic sequence, listed below in TheStateroomSketch. It pays off again with another sight gag, gag when Buster leaves the changing booth and is revealed to be wearing the fat man's enormous swimsuit, while the fat man is crammed into Buster's tiny swimsuit. Then it pays off ''again'' when Buster loses the fat man's loose, baggy SlipperySwimsuit in the pool.
* CueTheRain: Buster and Sally are trying to make it to dinner when Harold pulls up and offers them a ride. Buster is embarrassed when Harold puts Sallyup front upfront with him, while he gets stuck in the rumble seat in the back--which, unlike the front seats, doesn't have a top to pull up. Naturally, the heavens let loose with rain.
* CueTheRain: Buster and Sally are trying to make it to dinner when Harold pulls up and offers them a ride. Buster is embarrassed when Harold puts Sally
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* MeetCute: Buster is squeezed up next to Sally by the press of the crowd at the tickertape parade.
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* MeetCute: Buster is squeezed up next to Sally by the press of the crowd at the tickertape ticker-tape parade.
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** The glass panel in the door to the MGM newsreel office, which Buster keeps smashing. By the end of the movie the glass is protected with a metal grate.
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** The glass panel in the door to the MGM newsreel office, which Buster keeps smashing. By the end of the movie movie, the glass is protected with a metal grate.
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* StockFootage: Of tickertape parades at the beginning and end of the movie. The second parade even includes a clip of Charles Lindbergh, but Buster thinks the parade is for him.
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* StockFootage: Of tickertape ticker tape parades at the beginning and end of the movie. The second parade even includes a clip of Charles Lindbergh, but Buster thinks the parade is for him.
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''The Cameraman'' is a 1928 silent film starring Creator/BusterKeaton, directed by Edward Sedgwick and an uncredited Keaton. Buster is a tintype photographer who takes pictures of people on the sidewalk. He meets pretty Sally, an Creator/{{MGM}} secretary, at a tickertape parade where Sally is accompanying a squad of MGM newsreel cameramen. Buster, enchanted with Sally, decides that he will win her heart by becoming a newsreel cameraman too. Comic hijnks ensue as Buster struggles to make it as a cameraman while romancing Sally and fending off Harold, a rival MGM cameraman and a rival for Sally's affections.
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''The Cameraman'' is a 1928 silent film starring Creator/BusterKeaton, directed by Edward Sedgwick and an uncredited Keaton. Buster
[[TheDanza Buster]] is a tintype photographer in New York City, who takespictures portraits of people on the sidewalk. He meets pretty Sally, Sally (Marceline Day), an Creator/{{MGM}} secretary, at a tickertape parade where Sally is accompanying she accompanies a squad of MGM newsreel cameramen. Buster, enchanted with Sally, decides that he will win her heart by becoming a newsreel cameraman too. Comic hijnks ensue as Buster struggles to make it as a cameraman while romancing Sally and fending off Harold, Harold (Harold Stagg), a rival MGM cameraman and a rival for Sally's affections.
[[TheDanza Buster]] is a tintype photographer in New York City, who takes
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Renamed to Head Turning Beauty per TRS
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* HelloNurse: When Sally comes out of the changing room in her swimsuit, a half-dozen guys from the pool jump out to escort her.
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* HelloNurse: HeadTurningBeauty: When Sally comes out of the changing room in her swimsuit, a half-dozen guys from the pool jump out to escort her.
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* EveryCarIsAPinto: Every ''boat'' is a Pinto. A motorboat without a pilot gets stuck in a counter-clockwise turn. Does the boat just keep turning until it runs out of gas? No. It blows up.
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* TickertapeParade: How Buster meets Sally and the MGM film crew at the beginning, and where Sally finds him again at the end.
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* BookEnds: The movie ends with the MeetCute between Buster and Sally at a tickertape parade. It ends with Sally finding Buster at another tickertape parade, getting together with him, and telling him he got the job.
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* BookEnds: The movie ends begins with the MeetCute between Buster and Sally at a tickertape parade. It ends with Sally finding Buster at another tickertape parade, getting together with kissing him, and telling him he got the job.
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* ChekhovsGag: The scene with Buster in the changing booth that the fat man barges into is a long comic sequence, listed below in TheStateroomSketch. It pays off again with another sight gag, when Buster leaves the changing booth and is revealed to be wearing the fat man's enormous swimsuit, while the fat man is crammed into Buster's tiny swimsuit. Then it pays off ''again'' when Buster loses the fat man's loose, baggy SlipperySwimsuit in the pool.
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* SlipperySwimsuit: Buster loses his baggy, oversized swimsuit at the local pool.
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* SlipperySwimsuit: Buster loses his baggy, oversized swimsuit at the local pool.pool, leaving him desperate to cover himself. He winds up stealing the bloomers from a fat lady's giant swimsuit.
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''The Cameraman'' is a 1928 silent film starring Creator/BusterKeaton, directed by Edward Sedgwick and an uncredited Keaton. Buster is a tintype photographer who takes pictures of people on the sidewalk. He meets pretty Sally, an Creator/{{MGM}} secretary, at a tickertape parade where Sally is accompanying a squad of MGM newsreel cameramen. Buster, enchanted with Sally, decides that he will win her heart by becoming a newsreel cameraman too. Comic hijnks ensue as Buster struggles to make it as a cameraman while romancing Sally and fending off Harold, a rival MGM cameraman and a rival for Sally's affections.
''The Cameraman'' was the first film Keaton made for MGM after leaving the world of independent filmmaking behind and signing an MGM contract. The decision to become an MGM contract player is commonly regarded as the decisive negative turning point of Keaton's career. Keaton himself called it the worst mistake he ever made, and it is certainly true that his career quickly collapsed not long after this, as MGM utterly failed to manage Keaton's transition to sound. But ''The Cameraman'' is regarded by most critics as a classic that ranks along with all the great movies that Keaton made as an independent filmmaker.
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* ActionPet: Buster's monkey jumps on a Tong thug that is about to jump Buster, saving Buster's life. Then the monkey starts cranking the camera when Buster saves Sally, proving Harold's cowardice and Buster's heroism.
* BananaPeel: The classic banana peel is used for a throwaway gag while Buster and Sally are out walking.
* BookcasePassage: Buster thinks he's made it to safety when he escapes the Tong War shootout by hiding in an empty building--but some scary Chinese gangsters enter the room via a hidden bookcase passage.
* BookEnds: The movie ends with the MeetCute between Buster and Sally at a tickertape parade. It ends with Sally finding Buster at another tickertape parade, getting together with him, and telling him he got the job.
* TheCavalry: Buster is cornered by the gangsters and it looks like curtains for him, when the cops burst through the door and arrest everyone.
* CueTheRain: Buster and Sally are trying to make it to dinner when Harold pulls up and offers them a ride. Buster is embarrassed when Harold puts Sally up front with him, while he gets stuck in the rumble seat in the back--which, unlike the front seats, doesn't have a top to pull up. Naturally, the heavens let loose with rain.
* DirtyCoward: Harold is taking a boat ride with Sally when he tries to make too tight a turn and winds up flinging them overboard. Harold swims away without a thought for Sally, who is endangered by the boat that's stuck in a spin. Buster has to dive in and save her.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Buster winds up the unwilling custodian of an organ-grinding monkey, who sometimes makes life harder for Buster (he switches out the film canister with Buster's precious footage of the shootout), and sometimes helps Buster out (see ActionPet above).
* HelloNurse: When Sally comes out of the changing room in her swimsuit, a half-dozen guys from the pool jump out to escort her.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Buster is trying to get a job with MGM. In RealLife Keaton had just gotten a job with MGM.
* MeetCute: Buster is squeezed up next to Sally by the press of the crowd at the tickertape parade.
* NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: See Slippery Swimsuit below.
* OrganGrinder: Buster is in hot pursuit of a story to film when he crashes right into an organ grinder and his monkey. The monkey appears to be dead, so Buster has to pay the organ grinder. The monkey is only stunned, however, and soon wakes up to make more complications for Buster.
* RunningGag
** The glass panel in the door to the MGM newsreel office, which Buster keeps smashing. By the end of the movie the glass is protected with a metal grate.
** That one beat cop that Buster winds up annoying over and over again.
* SlipperySwimsuit: Buster loses his baggy, oversized swimsuit at the local pool.
* TheStateroomSketch: With only two people, but the effect is the same, when a larger man crams himself into the tiny changing room where Buster is trying to put on a swimsuit.
* StockFootage: Of tickertape parades at the beginning and end of the movie. The second parade even includes a clip of Charles Lindbergh, but Buster thinks the parade is for him.
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: Buster, looking for something newsworthy, goes to film a parade in Chinatown. A violent shootout between rival gangs breaks out. Buster's footage of the "Tong War" wins him the job as a newsreel cameraman.
''The Cameraman'' was the first film Keaton made for MGM after leaving the world of independent filmmaking behind and signing an MGM contract. The decision to become an MGM contract player is commonly regarded as the decisive negative turning point of Keaton's career. Keaton himself called it the worst mistake he ever made, and it is certainly true that his career quickly collapsed not long after this, as MGM utterly failed to manage Keaton's transition to sound. But ''The Cameraman'' is regarded by most critics as a classic that ranks along with all the great movies that Keaton made as an independent filmmaker.
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* ActionPet: Buster's monkey jumps on a Tong thug that is about to jump Buster, saving Buster's life. Then the monkey starts cranking the camera when Buster saves Sally, proving Harold's cowardice and Buster's heroism.
* BananaPeel: The classic banana peel is used for a throwaway gag while Buster and Sally are out walking.
* BookcasePassage: Buster thinks he's made it to safety when he escapes the Tong War shootout by hiding in an empty building--but some scary Chinese gangsters enter the room via a hidden bookcase passage.
* BookEnds: The movie ends with the MeetCute between Buster and Sally at a tickertape parade. It ends with Sally finding Buster at another tickertape parade, getting together with him, and telling him he got the job.
* TheCavalry: Buster is cornered by the gangsters and it looks like curtains for him, when the cops burst through the door and arrest everyone.
* CueTheRain: Buster and Sally are trying to make it to dinner when Harold pulls up and offers them a ride. Buster is embarrassed when Harold puts Sally up front with him, while he gets stuck in the rumble seat in the back--which, unlike the front seats, doesn't have a top to pull up. Naturally, the heavens let loose with rain.
* DirtyCoward: Harold is taking a boat ride with Sally when he tries to make too tight a turn and winds up flinging them overboard. Harold swims away without a thought for Sally, who is endangered by the boat that's stuck in a spin. Buster has to dive in and save her.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Buster winds up the unwilling custodian of an organ-grinding monkey, who sometimes makes life harder for Buster (he switches out the film canister with Buster's precious footage of the shootout), and sometimes helps Buster out (see ActionPet above).
* HelloNurse: When Sally comes out of the changing room in her swimsuit, a half-dozen guys from the pool jump out to escort her.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Buster is trying to get a job with MGM. In RealLife Keaton had just gotten a job with MGM.
* MeetCute: Buster is squeezed up next to Sally by the press of the crowd at the tickertape parade.
* NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: See Slippery Swimsuit below.
* OrganGrinder: Buster is in hot pursuit of a story to film when he crashes right into an organ grinder and his monkey. The monkey appears to be dead, so Buster has to pay the organ grinder. The monkey is only stunned, however, and soon wakes up to make more complications for Buster.
* RunningGag
** The glass panel in the door to the MGM newsreel office, which Buster keeps smashing. By the end of the movie the glass is protected with a metal grate.
** That one beat cop that Buster winds up annoying over and over again.
* SlipperySwimsuit: Buster loses his baggy, oversized swimsuit at the local pool.
* TheStateroomSketch: With only two people, but the effect is the same, when a larger man crams himself into the tiny changing room where Buster is trying to put on a swimsuit.
* StockFootage: Of tickertape parades at the beginning and end of the movie. The second parade even includes a clip of Charles Lindbergh, but Buster thinks the parade is for him.
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: Buster, looking for something newsworthy, goes to film a parade in Chinatown. A violent shootout between rival gangs breaks out. Buster's footage of the "Tong War" wins him the job as a newsreel cameraman.
