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.
A few months after the fire, this film was completed in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
After the fire, Wills and Carney put 5 dead jokes in there routine.