Only the songs "Echoes pt. 1 and 2", "A Saucerful of Secrets" and "One of These Days I´m Going to Cut You Into Little Pieces" were actually filmed in Pompeii. The songs "Careful With That Axe Eugene", "Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun", and "Mademoiselle Nobs" were actually filmed in a studio in Paris, where extra shooting took place for the bluescreen shots in the Pompeii performances. This explains the extra lighting rig and disappearance of Richard Wright´s beard in the Paris-shot songs.


The recording session in Abbey Road seen in the film was staged especially for it; in fact, recording on "Dark Side of the Moon" had already been completed by that time.