Buster Keaton to have a comic slant. After Keaton's successful work with Arbuckle, Schenck gave him his own production unit, Buster Keaton Productions. He made a series of two-reel comedies, including "One Week" (1920), "The Playhouse" (1921), "Cops" (1922), and "The Electric House" (1922). Keaton then moved to full-length features. Keaton's writers included Clyde Bruckman, Joseph Mitchell, and Jean Havez, but the most ingenious gags were generally conceived by Keaton himself. Comedy director Leo McCarey, recalling the freewheeling days of making slapstick comedies, said, "All of us tried to steal each other's gagmen. But we had no luck with Keaton, because he
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