William Friese-Greene's son Claude Friese-Greene continued to develop his father's color process and produced a series of color travelogues of Britain in the 1920s. These never achieved contemporary commercial success, but formed the basis of a very popular three-part BBC Television broadcast The Lost World of Friese-Greene (2006), after being preserved by the British Film Institute.
According to producer Ronald Neame in his memoirs, Sir Alec Guinness was the only actor to refuse a role in this.
This was Laurence Olivier's first acting role in a film that he did not direct since The Demi-Paradise (1943).