Buster Keaton up to provide replacements, as happened to some other late-arriving divisions. During his time in uniform, he suffered an ear infection that permanently impaired his hearing. In February 1917, Keaton met Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle at the Talmadge Studios in New York City, where Arbuckle was under contract to Joseph M. Schenck. Joe Keaton disapproved of films, and Buster also had reservations about the medium. During his first meeting with Arbuckle, he asked to borrow one of the cameras to get a feel for how it worked. He took the camera back to his hotel room and dismantled and reassembled it.
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