Harry Bailey, near the end of his five-year tenure of directing cartoons, broke loose with this one, in which the figures are derived from Otto Soglow. It surveys what happens to a busby-hatted palace guard on a day when everything happens in reverse: birds shoot at him, his horse puts on a bathing suit before carrying him across the river, and so forth.
Some people might call this surrealistic, but I find that word used too often. It's not surrealistic, it's absurd, and just the sort of silly, topsy-turvy thing that appealed to me when I was a child.
Given the chance, Bailey might have made something real and excellent with this, even given the skinflint production values that his boss espoused. He never got the chance. He directed two more cartoons, did some animation work the next year on a live feature, and then the record is silent. The IMDb offers no death date for him, but then it offers no date of birth. There's no information on Bailey on his IMDb page and if there's any elsewhere on the web, it's hidden behind a welter of real life and fictional Harry Baileys, including an eminent Australian psychiatrist and the Jimmy Stewart role in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. It's just as absurd as this cartoon.
Postscript: I've just gotten a note from Tom Stathes who tells me that Bailey was at Bray at the very beginning as a cameraman and artist. However, what he did after 1934 is still a mystery to me.