 Views of New York City were filmed from the Empire State Building for backgrounds in the final scenes and architectural plans for the mooring mast were secured from the building's owners for a mock-up to be constructed on the Hollywood sound stage.In August 1932, the island landing party scene and the gas bomb scene were filmed south of Los Angeles on a beach at San Pedro, California.All of the native village scenes were then filmed on the RKO-Pathé lot in Culver City with the native huts recycled from "Bird of Paradise" (1932).