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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Buster Keaton | ... | Buster Luke Shannon | |
| Marceline Day | ... | Sally Richards | |
| Harold Goodwin | ... | Harold Stagg | |
| Sidney Bracey | ... | Éditor Edward J. Blake (as Sidney Bracy) | |
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After becoming infatuated with a pretty office worker for MGM Newsreels, Buster trades in his tintype operation for a movie camera and sets out to impress the girl (and MGM) with his work. Written by tvman@earthlink.net
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He gets into more darn trouble than you can shake a tripod at, from filming bathing beauties to getting caught in a Chinatown tong war. (Print Ad-Dodge City Daily Globe,((Dodge City Kans.)) 2 January 1929) See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
22 September 1928 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Der Kameramann See more »Filming Locations:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA See more »Edit
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Runtime:
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Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
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