Here is his chance to realize his dreams of becoming a newsreel cameraman. Get the job. Get the girl. Buster's best efforts to cover exciting events, like fires, baseball games and ship launchings, result in hilarious ineptitude. His newsreel debut in the screening room turns into riches of embarrassment.
Keatonian comedy includes areas of human experience from which other filmmakers shrink.
In fact, the emotional range of The Cameraman leaves this writer in respectful surrender to his originality. While Buster is running like mad to make good, he must also tend to his courtship with Sally. He manages to engage her in a protracted date that culminates in a string of snafus. He takes her to a public swimming pool and ends up more than all wet. He accompanies her on an adventure across town and ends up left out in the rain.