 L'Herbier arranged with Jean Dréville, then a 22-year-old journalist and amateur photographer, that he should make a simultaneous documentary about the filming of "L'Argent".The resulting film, entitled "Autour de L'Argent" (1928), was itself a vigorous exercise in poetic montage, capturing the atmosphere and sheer scale of the sets from the points of view of the lighting riggers, the cameramen and the extras.It shows L'Herbier meticulously directing his actors and marshalling the crowds of extras.