Due to the collapse of her distribution deal with Paramount, Weber was forced to distribute "The Blot" through the F.B. Warren Corporation, a newly formed small independent company that would also distribute a film each by Canadian women producers Nell Shipman and May Tully, later in 1921. "The Blot" was released on September 4, 1921, but was not well-received critically and did little box office, and vanished after its run. After "The Blot", Weber's films did not make money at the box office. For decades, "The Blot" was considered a lost film, until it was rediscovered by the American Film Institute in 1975 and was reconstituted and restored by Robert Gitt of the UCLA Film & Television Archive in 1986 from an incomplete negative and an incomplete print. "The Blot" was then produced for video by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill of Photoplay Productions, and released on home video and DVD.