It is believed to depict the earliest on-screen kiss involving African Americans and is known for departing from the prevalent and purely stereotypical presentation of racist caricature in popular culture at the time it was made.

[3][1] A 20 second long negative of Something Good's nitrate film was rediscovered at an estate sale in Louisiana by an archivist from the University of Southern California in 2017.

[2] The USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive claims the copyright to the restored version of the film, which it published on Vimeo.

[8] Four years later, in 2021, a 49-second film held in the National Library of Norway in Oslo was identified as an extended version of Something Good.

[5] This copy was included in a reel found in Leksvik Municipality, and was housed in a barn until authorities said the films posed a risk of fire.

News of the 2017 discovery in the United States caused the National Library of Norway to reexamine it and correct its provenance.