This fictional documentary is based on many of the TCM and Home Video documentaries which the films co-writer, co-producer and actor, Woolsey Ackerman worked on. The format is also based on the DVD documentaries of director Michael Frost.
The short mocks the "documentaries of old movies genre" with touches such as a scene for which only stills are known to exist, dailies from a musical number for which the sound elements have been lost and a rough cut of an alternate ending which would likely have not been used.
The pre-release trailer is a recreation of Orson Welles' 1941 pre-release trailer for Citizen Kane (1941).
In the dressing room of Judy Garland on the A Star Is Born (1954) set, Garland is not only costumed for her "Lose That Long Face" musical number, but her red dress with white handkerchief costume, which she wears for the trip to the studio sequence, can be seen hanging in the background.
The short, a stylized fictional documentary about Hollywood movie making history was shot at the historic Mack Sennett Studios in Silver Lake, one of the first film studios to have been built in Hollywood.