The film was made on 14 December 1970 on West 61st Street in Manhattan, New York City, though the couple did not have permits to work in the United States at that time.
[2] The participants in the film were paid $1 each for their appearance, and each received a black and white instant photograph of them taken by Lennon.
[4] Notable participants in the film included filmmaker Shirley Clarke, each member of the band New York Dolls, writer Paul Krassner, lawyer Allen Klein, artist Peter Max, model Taylor Mead, filmmaker Jonas Mekas, filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker, artist Larry Rivers, artist George Segal, film director Jack Smith and writer Tom Wolfe.
The film is 70 minutes in length[2] and ends with a shot of Lennon and Ono's buttocks.
[5] In his 1995 book Screen Writings: Texts and Scripts from Independent Films, Scott MacDonald describes Up Your Legs Forever as "less impressive" than other film script adaptations by Ono as it does not advance beyond her "remarkable previous feature No.