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The Cameraman

Item number (ISN):

221795

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1920

Item number (ISN):

221795

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

GRAPHIC CONSULTANTS LTD.

Accession:

1970-0046

Media:

Film

Original title:

The Cameraman

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1920

Release date:

1920-12

Production company:

Reelcraft Pictures Corporation

Production credit:

director/scenario, Grover Jones; executive producer, Nat H. Spizer; photography, George Richter

Cast credit:

Billy Franey, Charles Haefelt, Charles Post

Country of production:

us

Distributor name:

State Rights

Description:

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This film starts with a scene of a news desk where a reporter is receiving news that the sheriff is taking Bill the Cut-Throat to the penitentiary. A cameraman from the newspaper office is sent out to cover the story. The cameraman is out on the street with his camera attached to a tripod. He collides with passersby and a police officer. He turns a corner and sees a man and woman fighting. He goes to the aid of the woman but finds out, too late, that the fight scene is actually being shot for a movie. The movie cameraman is very annoyed and threatens to punch him in the face because he has ruined the scene. The newspaper cameraman remembers that he has a story to cover and hears the whistle of the train. There are close-up shots of the train whistle. He sees the sheriff handcuffed to his prisoner and asks if they will pose for a picture. The cameraman takes so long, fiddling with his camera, that the sheriff gets impatient and and thinks he is going to miss the train, so he starts to move away. A long-eared donkey appears on the scene and moves into the place that the sheriff has just left. The cameraman, without looking, takes the picture, unaware that the donkey is in it. He rushes back to the newspaper office to get the photograph processed. When the chief editor sees it, he hands it back to the cameraman and tells him he is fired. When the cameraman sees the photo, he cannot believe his eyes. The chief editor tells him not to come back unless he has a good story. The cameraman goes out into the street, looking for a story. He sees two men fighting, but by the time he has set up his camera, they have made friends again. Then he walks over to where a political party meeting is being held and tries to get some shots of the candidate, but all is in vain, as the candidate keeps moving from one place to another, and then the meeting is over. While the cameraman is walking along, he listens to two assassins planning the murder of a high official. He follows them and has his camera all ready for action, when a young lady comes along and asks him for something. By the time he returns, the assassins have thrown a bomb at a car and he is just in time to see the explosion and the auto debris. A man runs from the auto in his underwear. The cameraman does not give up. He turns down an alley and sees a thief holding up a man. He offers the thief $10 to slug the man on the head, and the thief accepts. The cameraman gets his picture and rushes back to the newspaper office. When the picture is processed, the chief editor throws the camera out the window, telling him that the man who was slugged is his father.<13mn 26s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. The running time is based on the measured length of the archives' master print calculated at 18 fps.~2. Source of subject description is Graphic Consultants Limited Stock Shot Library catalogue card.

Genre:

COMEDY

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

78935

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8208-0018

Number of items:

1

Made from:

GC-8090/S

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

229445

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-1917

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

242997

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9410-0001

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

7301-1917

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

243038

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9410-0016

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

9410-0001

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8208-0018

Reproduction access:

closed : to be used for reference purposes only within NA and not to be duplicated for commercial use

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