Released as a split reel along with the documentary The Biwa Canal and Shooting the Rapids at Katsuragawa, Japan (1912).
"Producer Hobart Bosworth has told us in 'Getting Atmosphere,' a little story of studio experience, and told it with delightful humor and insight into human nature. He needed a tramp and his character man couldn't supply the right article, so he rode out on horseback for the real article and found him with two pals. How the chosen hobo looked on the new job and its result make a very amusing picture."
Moving Picture World Oct-Dec 1912