Buster running away from a horde of cops never gets old, even if he does it in several films, and the scene with him stuck in the riverboat paddle wheel like a hamster was funny. It was nice to see little bits of San Francisco here, and Buster holding on to a moving cable car, wildly horizontal in mid-air behind it, was memorable. For those interested in where these locations were in the city and more recent pictures of those locations, have a look at the page devoted to this short on sfinfilmcom.
It's nice to think that Buster was in San Francisco at that time to support his friend Roscoe Arbuckle, who was enduring his third trial in the Virginia Rappe case in March/April, 1922, but I'm not sure the timing quite aligns, given that this film was released in November of that year and probably shot shortly before. Regardless, Keaton certainly supported Arbuckle by giving him work at a time when no one would touch him, and setting aside the official credits, it was Arbuckle who wrote the original script for Day Dreams.
It's nice to think that Buster was in San Francisco at that time to support his friend Roscoe Arbuckle, who was enduring his third trial in the Virginia Rappe case in March/April, 1922, but I'm not sure the timing quite aligns, given that this film was released in November of that year and probably shot shortly before. Regardless, Keaton certainly supported Arbuckle by giving him work at a time when no one would touch him, and setting aside the official credits, it was Arbuckle who wrote the original script for Day Dreams.