Keeping the viewers’ attention for 18 minutes with a series of visual gag requires quite a bit of imagination and effort as this film easily demonstrates. The scene with a long plank of wood pivoting back and forth across the top of a fence like a seesaw is surprisingly poetic while the horse-drawn cart driven by Buster Keaton in the middle of a police parade is almost like an awkward and embarrassing happenstance that could be true and stranger than fiction. If anything can go wrong, it does, and the treatment of the entire 18-minute episode comes across like a narration of a lover’s worst nightmare. There is definitely a place for a topsy-turvy carnavalesque comedy such as this in a world where, realistically-speaking, all the king’s horses and all the king’s men cannot always put Humpty Dumpty together again when he falls and breaks.