In an August 2015 interview with Stephen Saito in The Moveable Fest, filmmaker Aviva Kempner explained how she decided to include clips from movies and TV shows like The Music Man, Rawhide, The Frisco Kid, and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman in this documentary: "When Hasia Diner, the scholar[, wrote] a book about how the Jewish peddler would go house to house and oftentimes serve immigrants, African Americans, and Native Americans, I thought, 'Hmm.' I remembered there was a 'Dr. Quinn' Christmas [special with a Jewish peddler character] and there it was, just in the order she said. That was a real a-ha moment. Then I thought, 'Well, let me look at other westerns.' I went to the Paley Center for TV, and sure enough, there was many different episodes with peddler scenes. When you can have Clint Eastwood speaking Yiddish, it was just fun and sometimes you've got to have that because I feel docs that feel can be educational and entertaining."
