The film was produced independently
of the Hollywood studios and
fell into the
public domain years ago, which meant that no one was looking after the film's elements but plenty
of labels putting
out inferior versions from whatever battered TV print or video copy they could get their hands on.
Barnes and Noble inflates its Nook count with over a million
public domain titles, and Apple just recently passed the 100,000 - title mark in its iBooks store, which is so embarrassingly lame that Apple dropped iBooks from its Apps listings just as it was about to
fall out of the Top 20 listings.