It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 1102–1103 in its catalogues.
[1] Two of Méliès's frequent collaborators appear in the film: Fernande Albany as the plump client, and Manuel as one of the barbers.
The film's special effects are created with substitution splices.
[2] The Black character in Méliès's film is played as a pejorative caricature, typifying the stereotypical figure of the dandy nègre ("Black dandy") that frequently appeared in turn-of-the-century French imagery.
[3] In a study of otherness in popular entertainment, French writer Enrique Seknadje comments that the film perpetuates racist stereotyping by associating erotic desire with Blackness, but also that the woman's anger seems to imply a criticism of society's casual racism.