According to the authors of Forgotten Horrors, only "about 12 minutes of silent footage" remains.
Mamba's successful opening broke all records at the Gaiety for the first two weeks of its run.
Negatives from the defunct Tiffany Pictures collection, were most likely used for the burning of Atlanta in Gone with the Wind, as nitrate ignites easily and there was a lot of it lying around. According to historian Jonas Nordin, the original negative for this film was probably among them, which would account for its loss.
Only four of the nine original Vitaphone disks are known to survive. However, a complete film print surfaced in rural Australia in 2009.
The studio kept running out of money. They even kept two sets of costumes available in different places so that filming could continue if the creditors decided to seize one set.
This production was a huge gamble. Tiffany was a 'poverty row' company and sank all their assets into this film, which turned out to be very successful.
This was the sixth feature-length talkie to be produced in color, after On with the Show! and Gold Diggers of Broadway. Three other all-color talkies were in production at the same time, all of them musicals. It was the first such project that was not a musical, and the first not to be produced by Warner Bros.
When it opened at the Gaiety Theatre in N.Y., Mamba advertised itself as the first All Technicolor drama.