The sequences of Native American life were shot in Technicolor, while reels two and three, in which Wing Foot goes away to college, were photographed in black and white and printed in sepiatone. This was an artistic decision which worked very well, and not a financial consideration as erroneously reported elsewhere.
Louise Brooks was reportedly cast in this film and appears to have been paid for three weeks of filming, but no footage of her appears in the film. She was replaced by Julie Carter upon leaving for Germany before the rest of the cast and crew had left for shooting in Arizona.
A copy of this film survives in the Library of Congress.
The final six minutes were shown in Magnascope process during its initial release in New York City at the Criterion Theatre.
The film was released with a recorded soundtrack on nine disks. According to the liner notes of the film's DVD release the picture survives intact while only disks 1, 3, and 8 are still known to exist. However, the website for the Vitaphone Project lists that copies of discs 2, 4, 5, and 7 exist in their collection. In 2016, disc 6 was aquired by the Vitaphone Project, this making the film's soundtrack complete.