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 stored the script under "Film Tati Nº 4", which was passed on to Chomet by Jérôme Deschamps and Macha Makeïeff, the guardians of Tati's oeuvre. This happened after The Triplets of Belleville was showcased at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.