The Cameraman (1928) Poster

(1928)

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Sex & Nudity

  • Female character's swimsuit is not completely opaque; her nipples are partially visible through the fabric.
  • Two male characters undress to their boxer shorts in a dressing room, in preparation for swimming.
  • Male character is nude in a swimming pool after losing his suit in a mishap; in some shots his buttocks are partially visible under the water. Many young women swim near him.

Violence & Gore

  • Buster Keaton falls on a monkey and assumes to have killed it, but they monkey comes out of the incident unharmed.
  • Many instances of varying degrees of slapstick violence, including but not limited to: Man riding on bus fender falls off onto street; Several people smacked in the head by cameramen's tripods; Running man plows into woman and knocks her over; Smaller man smacked in face, shoved about, dumped upside-down, and otherwise roughhoused by larger man in tight dressing room as they change for swimming; Police officer smacks man on shin with nightstick, man kicks policeman in shin; Man carrying camera runs into policeman, knocking him unconscious; Man falls off back of moving ambulance
  • Some brief scenes of violence being recorded by newsreel camera men, including WWI-era type war footage.
  • Main character films street fighting in the thick of the chaos, with much gunfire (including machine gun fire) and fist fighting, and some knife fighting, though with no obvious blood or gore. Main character knocks man over the head to get him out of the way of a good film shot.

Profanity

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Brief cigarette smoking.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Scenes of people being shoved about helplessly in crowds.
  • Man leaps onto running board of speeding fire engine.
  • Man runs through traffic.
  • Man climbs down exterior of moving double-decker bus.
  • Small man pounced upon and shoved under water in swimming pool by many larger men.
  • Main character nearly falls from scaffold, which then slowly collapses under him into the street fight below.

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Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Main character falls on small monkey, apparently killing it.
  • Main character and small monkey caught up in street fighting, threatened with gunfire and machetes.
  • Young woman nearly drowns after being thrown from speedboat.

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