[1] The sound track uses text détourned from Isidore Isou's book Esthétique du cinéma, John Ford's film Rio Grande, work by James Joyce, and the French Civil Code.

[1] Debord wrote the original script for Hurlements en faveur de Sade during the winter of 1951–1952.

Debord planned to use newsreel footage, images of himself and other Lettrists, painted film stock, and sequences of solid black.

For the film's soundtrack, his notes included Lettrist poetry, text by Guillaume Apollinaire, and music by Antonio Vivaldi.

He used speeches delivered by himself, Gil J. Wolman, Isidore Isou, Serge Berna [fr], and Barbara Rosenthal.