A copy of this video has been held since the 1990s by the Munich Film Museum. Its incomplete copy was restored for the 2005 Locarno Film Festival, and still occasionally screens at international film festivals. The surviving footage was supplemented by audio from Welles's reading in his 1946 Mercury Theatre radio play, plugging the gaps in the recording to complete the story.
This video is part of 'An Evening with Orson Welles,' a series of six short films created in 1970 by Orson Welles, for the exclusive use of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Welles produced the recitations of popular stories for Sears's Avco Cartrivision machines, a pioneering home video system. Four of the shorts are considered to be lost.