The film contained a supporting cast referred to by one film historian as second-rate and excellent by another.

The book features many interviews with the leading actors and directors of the silent era and began his career as a film historian.

Then in the 1970s she started receiving approaches from film historians.

The latter was used, according to film historians, throughout the 1940s and 1950s.

In his nineties he gave several interviews to film historians eager to hear about the industry's formative years.