This short film won the best cinematography "Millie" award in Australia in 1979. It also won best short film at the Cork Film Festival and several awards from industrial film festivals and medical film festivals.
This film's director, Brian Trenchard-Smith, to prove to a stunt-man that he is willing to do what they are asked to do, once set himself on fire, this was during the shoot of 'The Man from Hong Kong' (1975).
Director Brian Trenchard-Smith said of this film in a 2015 interview that it is '...'a prize-winning 24-minute short that won Best Short Film at Cork, and won all sorts of industrial safety awards all over the world, and was Australia's highest-selling industrial film for 25 years, used all over the world.''