The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.
The earliest documented telecast of this film in the New York City area occurred Monday 22 May 1944 on pioneer television station WNBT (Channel 1). Post-WWII television audiences got their first look at it in New York City Friday 13 August 1948 on WCBS (Channel 2), in Cincinnati Monday 26 December 1949 on WKRC (Channel 11), and in Los Angeles Monday 3 April 1950 on KECA (Channel 7).