Film historian and collector William K. Everson stated that the only surviving print was lost by actress Mary Duncan, who had borrowed it from Fox Films. In the December 1974 issue of "Films in Review," he explained that Duncan, one of the film's stars, wanted it to show to a group of friends in Florida. The star was aware that it was a dangerous nitrate print and assumed that Fox had others. She threw the only copy in the ocean, a mistake characterized by Everson as "a monumental blunder to rank with Balaclava, Sarajevo, and the Fall of Babylon as one of history's blackest moments."
This film is presumed lost.
In the 2003 release of Sunrise (1927) on DVD, Fox presented, as an extra, a reconstitution of what this movie might have been like. By combining voiceovers, photographs and conceptual sketches, this is the closest one can get to this lost masterpiece.
Fox first released the film with only a synchronized musical score, but then withdrew it to reshoot the last two reels with sound.
Alfredo Codona, a famed trapeze artist, and the only one in the world who had built a triple black flip into his regular act, worked on the film as a consultant.