This film represented a sort of break from Ruttmann's earlier "Absolute films" which were abstract.

"The Hart of London: Jack Chambers' Absolute Film."

Its first public screening was in Berlin in May 1925, at the film program "Der absolute Film", arranged by the Novembergruppe.

Absolute film is a film movement begun by a group of visionary artists in Germany in the 1920s: Hans Richter, Walter Ruttmann, Oskar Fischinger and the Swede Viking Eggeling.

Viking Eggeling (21 October 1880, Lund - 19 May 1925, Berlin) was a Swedish avant-garde artist and filmmaker connected to dadaism, Constructivism and Abstract art and was one of the pioneers in absolute film and visual music.

Some of the earliest abstract motion pictures known to survive are those produced by a group of German artists working in the early 1920s, a movement referred to as Absolute Film: Walter Ruttmann, Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and Oskar Fischinger.