Carriage Trade was filmed over the course of six years as Sonbert brought a Bolex 16 mm camera with him on international trips.
[3] Early titles for the film were The Tuxedo Theatre, The Bad and the Beautiful, and Tonight and Every Night.
[5] A 20-minute early cut of the footage from Carriage Trade, then known as The Tuxedo Theatre, was shown at the Jewish Museum in New York on February 11, 1969.
[1] Carriage Trade is now part of Anthology Film Archives' Essential Cinema Repertory collection.
[8] For The New York Times, critic A. H. Weiler wrote that it "makes for a slightly dizzying but colorful and far-ranging trip, [but] it also illustrates the talents of an acutely perceptive and artistic film maker.