Buster Keaton ever made. Keaton was recognized as the seventh-greatest film director by "Entertainment Weekly", and the American Film Institute ranked him in 1999 as the 21st greatest male star of classic Hollywood cinema. Keaton was born into a vaudeville family in Piqua, Kansas, the small town where his mother, Myra Keaton ("née" Cutler), was when she went into labor. He was named "Joseph" to continue a tradition on his father's side (he was sixth in a line bearing the name Joseph Keaton) and "Frank" for his maternal grandfather, who disapproved of his parents' union. Later, Keaton changed his middle name to
Paradise for Buster it into many different sized piggybanks) from the city folk who arrive to pay admission to his "Fisherman's Paradise - Buster Keaton, Prop." Many of the gags in this industrial short are updated versions of Buster's earlier silent film work. The glass doors breaking previously occur in 1928's "The Cameraman" and 1940's "Pardon My Berth Marks". The breaking of the piggybank is most similar in "The Cameraman". The molasses gag harkens back to 1917's "The Butcher Boy". The windmill gag is analogous to the water wheel gag in 1922's "Daydreams". The suicide gag recalls the suicide in 1922's "The Electric