[1] Instead, Brakhage transferred the birth to their home, hiring a nurse and some expensive emergency equipment.

[1] Jane was originally "very, very shy" about being filmed, but eventually relented after Brakhage made "a big dramatic scene and said 'All right, let's forget it!

'"[1] Most of the film was photographed by Brakhage himself, but Jane occasionally took the camera to capture her husband's reactions.

[3] Critic Archer Winsten described the film as being "so forthright, so full of primitive wonder and love, so far beyond civilization in its acceptance that it becomes an experience like few in the history of movies.

"[4] Scott MacDonald credited Window Water Baby Moving with making delivery rooms more accessible to fathers, a view with which Brakhage concurred.