 The film was cancelled early for unknown reasons, and in 1938 Biograph donated the negatives to the Museum of Modern Art.In 2014, museum staff reassembled the seven reels of raw footage in order to screen the film publicly for the first time.The negative footage of "Bert William's Lime Kiln Field Day" screening is notably accompanied by video footage and still images of interaction between the film's black cast and white production crew.