Day Dreams
About Day Dreams
Buster tells a girl's father he will find work in the city or shoot himself. His letters describe the jobs as bigger than they are. He is a janitor, a hand at an animal hospital, a street cleaner, and an extra, and each job collapses. He is caught inside a ferry paddle wheel and has to run to stay upright. He comes back a failure. The father hands him a gun. He misses. The father kicks him out the window.
Cast & crew
More about Day Dreams
Keaton and Edward F. Cline directed and wrote it. Wikidata also lists Roscoe Arbuckle among the writers. Joseph M. Schenck produced. Elgin Lessley photographed. First National distributed it. Released November 27, 1922. Two reels. Renée Adorée plays the girl. Joe Keaton plays her father. Joe Roberts plays a mayor. Partly lost. A copy is on the Internet Archive as Daydreams_784.
Themes
Look
Elgin Lessley shot the city jobs and the ferry wheel.
Preservation
Partly lost. Public-domain copies circulate.
Notes
- The letters are the joke. She pictures the jobs as grander than the ones he has.
- The paddle wheel is the set piece the short is known for.
- The gun does not go off into him. He misses, and the father supplies the exit.
- What circulates is an incomplete print.
Scenes
- He runs inside the turning paddle wheel.
- The father hands him a gun, then kicks him through the window.
Also available
- Internet Archive (Daydreams_784)
