When M.G.M production head Irving Thalberg protested the jury's decision by claiming that the 1928 film "White Shadows in the South Seas" had "fifty naked women" in it, the jurors screened that film and determined that none of the women were naked. According to film historian Rudy Behlmer: "From all evidence, "three" versions of the sequence eventually went out to separate territories during the film's initial release. One with Jane clothed in her jungle loin cloth outfit, one with her topless, and one with her in the nude. However, by April 24, 1934, all prints of "Tarzan and His Mate" in all territories were ordered changed. Additionally, the New York Censors previewed the film, and insisted that the scene involving Cavanagh lowering his nude body into a portable bathtub be eliminated as well. It was not until Ted Turner took over the M.G.M film library that a positive print of the original film was discovered in the vaults and released in 1986.