He made it after a number of years of working in distribution with the intention of producing Australia's first talking motion picture.
[1] The movie was a "society romance" shot in Melbourne using a sound-on-disc recording system.
[2] Independent Films announced plans to make four more movies.
[3] However the only set of wax discs buckled in a heat wave before the film was completed and it was never released.
Harwood recovered and used the same cast and crew to make two low-budget films, Spur of the Moment (1931) and Isle of Intrigue (1931).