[1] Mimica collaborated with animator Aleksandar Marks and background artist Zlatko Bourek.

[2] According to Animafest artistic director Danijel Šuljić, Inspektor se vratio kući was one of the most innovative animations for its time due to its "flat graphic style, experiments with perspective, space, and depth, and limited animation" being taken to a completely new level.

The short film became popular enough to spawn a separate animated series called Inspektor Maska, which started production in 1962.

Instead of himself running to get it, the different city backgrounds appear one after the other, just like stage curtains, with the main character essentially immobilized.

Newspaper clips, Hollywood starlets, a jazzy soundtrack and a plot which becomes visually even more complicated and abstract than it had already been, makes this a really distinctive, convoluted, animated film noir.