In the beginning of the film, while the narrator is describing New York City, the camera pans past three historic movie theaters: Loew's Victoria (demolished 2016-17), the Harlem Opera House (demolished 1959), both on 125th Street, now Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., and the RKO Alhambra Theatre and Ballroom around the corner on 7th Avenue, now Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd.
Penultimate feature film produced by William Alexander. The last film he would produce would not be for another 25 years - Verflucht sind sie alle (1974).
About and hour and five minutes into the film, the radio announcer states the real-life news of Levi Jackson (1926-2000) becoming the first black captain of the Yale University football team in 1949. After graduating, he went to work with Ford in Detroit, rising to become the company's first black executive in 1962. He retired a Vice President in 1983 and served on many community organizations' boards until his passing.
According to TCM's Jacqueline Stewart, this film is considered the last of the "race films" from the era (1920s to 1940s). These were pictures made outside of the Hollywood studio systems by blacks, with all black casts, for black audiences.