Kent Mackenzie borrowed equipment from industrial film makers Parthenon Pictures and used the unused "ends" of thousand-foot reels of 35mm film, according to an article in the 12 March 1961 edition of the New York Times.
Added to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2009.
Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Some of the film's instrumental music was performed by the Revels. Typical 1958 doo-wop and rockabilly songs are also heard on the film's soundtrack as the characters bum around downtown LA.