(1928, Edward Sedgwick) Neophyte newsreel photog Buster Keaton loses his swimsuit at Coney Island and his heart on the streets of Manhattan, lensing Mott Street Tong Wars while being upstaged by monkey great Jocko.

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“Keaton at the height of his art and master of every detail of silent filmmaking.”
– Rudi Blesh

"A delightful piece of film-making within-a-film which is both an insight into Keaton's own logic and, also, a sort of epitaph."
– Time Out (London)

“A romantic charmer. Keaton proves his genius at creating a parabola-like farce with what looks like a series of straight lines, whether he’s racing across town to face his true love before she realizes that he’s off the phone or getting his tripod levelled during a tong war by flying bullets.”
– Michael Sragow, The New Yorker

"Includes some of the best asides on the techniques and psychology of shooting films ever captured
in a movie. In many ways it summarizes Keaton's career."
– Don Druker, Chicago Reader