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The Cameraman – 1928

Buster Keaton plays a hapless newsreel cameraman desperate to impress both his new employer and his office crush as he zigzags up and down Manhattan hustling for a scoop. This marvelously inventive film-within-a-film setup allows Keaton’s imagination to run wild, yielding both sly insights into the travails of moviemaking and an emotional payoff of disarming poignancy. Keaton is at the peak of his slapstick powers in The Cameraman—the first film that the silent-screen legend made after signing with MGM, and his last great masterpiece.

Meet the Organist

Dennis Scott is an internationally known silent film organist. He first began accompanying silent films in the 1970s, when he started playing theater pipe organs installed in pizza parlors in the midwest and on the west coast. He would accompany a couple of “two-reel” comedies every evening. His style has been compared to that of his legendary mentor, the late John Muri, who recorded numerous silent film scores for Blackhawk Films. Suzanne Lloyd, the granddaughter of the comic genius Harold Lloyd, dubbed Dennis the “Master of Magic Notes.”