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.
This film's earliest documented telecasts occurred Thursday 9 October 1947 both in New York City on the DuMont Television Network's WABD (Channel 5), and in Washington DC on WTTG (Channel 5); re-titled Out of the Night, it was first aired in Los Angeles Monday 13 March 1950 on KTTV (Channel 11).