Silent Film With Live Music: the Cameraman (1928) August 29, 2007

In the last of his great comedies, Buster Keaton is a portrait photographer who decides to become a newsreel cameraman in hopes of impressing beautiful Sally, a secretary for MGM's newsreel department. However, his hand with a movie camera is not especially sure. For over two decades Ben Model has served as resident silent film accompanist for The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Ben composes and improvises all his own scores and performs in a style that both evokes the silent era and reflects a contemporary (and younger) audience's appreciation of music and film scoring