Often, the name of Segundo de Chomón (1871-1929) is associated with that of Georges Méliès (1861-1938). If he is less known than his illustrious rival, the Spanish filmmaker has nonetheless little to envy in him in terms of creativity and inventiveness when it comes to special effects. It is in 1905 that Segundo de Chomón is hired by Pathé Frères, and put in charge of special-effects films to compete with Méliès. During the years 1908 and 1909, which are particularly prolific, Segundo de Chomón makes his best special-effects films, among the some 150 which he made for Pathé between 1905 and 1909.

Quite like the L'Araignée d'or (The Gold Spider), Le Voleur invisible (The Invisible Thief) or Le Rêve des marmitons (Scullions' Dream), Chomón employs in this Symphonie bizarre, a particularly efficient special effect. Also known as "turn of the crank", this technique enables the filmmaker to give the audience the impression that objects come to life and move on their own, by changing their position slightly between each take. When the final film is projected, the movement is recreated. To make this special effect, Chomón used a camera with a crank marked with eight positions (as it records eight frames per turn), permitting him to film forwards and backwards. It is thus that he created the pretty dance of the parasols.

The colours of this film were created by the use of stencil images. Colour was an obsession for Chomón. His wife, Julienne Mathieu (1874-?) - who appeared moreover in several films of the Pathé period, like Les Ombres chinoises - was in charge of the illumination studio run by Mme Thuillier, and who coloured Georges Méliès' films. She was the one who initiated Chomón to the art of colouring, and who thus ushered him into the just-burgeoning world of motion pictures. In 1902, the couple moved to Barcelona, opening a film colouring studio there. Chomón took up all the techniques of colouring and perfected them. Returning to Paris, he collaborated on perfecting the mechanical stencil colouring of films, patented under the name of Pathécolour.

The original music for this film was composed in 2011 by Valentin Couineau in the context of the partnership with the CNSMDP (Paris Conservatory of Dance and Music).