Catalogued in the Centre National de la Cinématographie archives under the impersonal moniker "Film Tati Nº 4", the script was passed to Chomet by the caretakers of Tati's oeuvre, Jérôme Deschamps and Macha Makeïeff after Chomet's previous film The Triplets of Belleville was premiered at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.
The Centre National de la Cinématographie archives kept the script under "Film Tati Nº 4", which Chomet received from Jérôme Deschamps and Macha Makeïeff, caretakers of Tati's work. This transfer took place after The Triplets of Belleville was presented at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.