Preservation
The film was photographed in Eastmancolor, and processed by the Color Corporation of America laboratory in Burbank, California. The lab went out of business the following year. Although unconfirmed, it is presumed that all of the original elements were junked at that time. The negatives were labeled under the production company name, Roadshow Productions.
The only material in the MGM/UA library today is an edited 16mm release print of one side (missing about 15 minutes of footage depicting the rehearsal for the introduction of “Miss Blendo”). That is the version which has been released on home video. There are no original elements that currently exist of the film. It is one of two 3-D films lost in the original stereoscopic form, the other being Southwest Passage. The edited footage does survive in several 16mm prints struck in 1954, but is currently not available in the video version offered by United Artists.
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