Filmed by a newsreel crew Hearst Metrotone Newsreel service, but the footage was not released to the general public for several years. The material was eventually deposited with the UCLA Film and Television archives in Los Angeles, where it has been preserved.
The fur coat worn by Marian Anderson in this footage is now housed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The coat was displayed alongside numerous other artifacts to eleven US cities as part of the Smithsonian's traveling exhibition which lasted from February 1996 to late 1997).