 On 10 December 1929, during the production of this film, a fire  broke out in the Pathe studios at Park Avenue and 134th Street in  NYC, resulting in the death of ten studio employees. The film  started when a carbon used in a carbon arc light broke off, and set  fire to a velvet curtain used as a backdrop for this film. Pathe  never reopened the NYC studio, and moved all production of short  films to Los Angeles.