Buster Keaton falls on a monkey and assumes to have killed it, but they monkey comes out of the incident unharmed.
Many instances of varying degrees of slapstick violence, including but not limited to: Man riding on bus fender falls off onto street; Several people smacked in the head by cameramen's tripods; Running man plows into woman and knocks her over; Smaller man smacked in face, shoved about, dumped upside-down, and otherwise roughhoused by larger man in tight dressing room as they change for swimming; Police officer smacks man on shin with nightstick, man kicks policeman in shin; Man carrying camera runs into policeman, knocking him unconscious; Man falls off back of moving ambulance
Some brief scenes of violence being recorded by newsreel camera men, including WWI-era type war footage.
Main character films street fighting in the thick of the chaos, with much gunfire (including machine gun fire) and fist fighting, and some knife fighting, though with no obvious blood or gore. Main character knocks man over the head to get him out of the way of a good film shot.