By July 1, 1933, Van Dyke was dropped from the project, and Gibbons was announced as the film's sole director.
Mayer applied for a jury trial, but the verdict by Breen was upheld.
Travelling matte shots were used to depict lions leaping up and holding on to elephants, who then seized them with their trunks and hurled them down, or crushed them beneath their feet.