This was the first film directed by Martin Scorsese. In 2016, he described it as "juvenile" in an interview with IMDB.
According to Martin Scorsese, this silent, no-budget, 10-or-12-minute short film was shot by himself with a borrowed DeJur 8mm Camera in B&W. He shot it on the rooftops of New York City. The story is about "a private eye in ancient Rome", and the short features a friend wearing bed sheets as a "toga". Scorsese and his friend showed it only once for themselves, and used an unsynchronized "soundtrack" of music records, featuring Sergei Prokofiev, Django Reinhardt, and Lonnie Donegan, among others. [from the 'IMDB First Credit' series, 2016]