The first documented telecasts of this film took place in Syracuse Tuesday 1 March 1949 on WHEN (Channel 8), in Washington DC Wednesday 16 March 1949 on WMAL (Channel 7), in both Chicago and in Detroit Saturday 19 March 1949 on WENR (Channel 7) and on WXYZ (Channel 7), in Fort Worth Monday 11 April 1949 on WBAP (Channel 5), in Cincinnati Tuesday 26 July 1949 on WCPO (Channel 7), and in Los Angeles Sunday 21 August 1949 on KTSL (Channel 2) and again Saturday 25 February 1950 on KECA (Channel 7); in New York City its initial broadcast took place Monday 2 October 1950 on WOR (Channel 9);
While the exact time frame of the movie is unclear, at 22:16 a portrait of Theodore Roosevelt is seen on the wall over Eleanor's left shoulder. Roosevelt served as U.S. President from 1901 to 1909 meaning the film takes place within the first decade of the turn of the century.
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.
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