This film was first telecast on New York City's pioneer television station W2XBS 22 June 1940. Post-WWII television enthusiasts got their first look at it in New York City Tuesday 28 May 1946 on the DuMont Television Network's WABD (Channel 5), and in Washington DC Tuesday 3 February 1948 on WMAL (Channel 7); on the West Coast, its earliest documented telecast took place in Los Angeles Saturday 23 June 1951 on KTTV (Channel 11).
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.