Initially, this was only supposed to be a short report called "Pas vu à la télé;" (meaning "never seen on TV") for French TV channel Canal+. For some reason, the film was judged controversial enough not to be shown at all. Several years later, the same film maker Pierre Carles made a long feature version called "Pas vu, pas pris" (meaning; "never seen, never taken") explaining his own point of view of what happened.