Hopelessly in love with a woman (Marceline Day) working at MGM Studios, a clumsy man (Buster Keaton) attempts to become a motion picture cameraman to be close to the object of his desire.
This seems like a pretty good film, with a similar premise to many other silent comedies: boy wants to win over girl. Perhaps due to Keaton not directing, the physical humor is greatly toned down. Unfortunately, the copy I saw looked terrible. I guess copies exist from terrible to pretty decent, but mine was not one of those. This hurt my viewing experience.
Within a little over a year, 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."
This seems like a pretty good film, with a similar premise to many other silent comedies: boy wants to win over girl. Perhaps due to Keaton not directing, the physical humor is greatly toned down. Unfortunately, the copy I saw looked terrible. I guess copies exist from terrible to pretty decent, but mine was not one of those. This hurt my viewing experience.
Within a little over a year, 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."