Though it was initially written as a one-act play, Kathryn and Stuart Immonen started uploading Moving Pictures as a webcomic in the late 2000s because of "scheduling mechanics", allowing them to create the comic in a timely fashion through weekly deadlines.
The Immonen's researched the setting of the story, but kept the setting somewhat vague, blanking newspapers and documents shown in the webcomic and leaving out the names of historical figures.