Just my effort to keep it real, so maybe we can factually address "What happened here?"

Critics pointed out that the fight between the python and the tiger in BRING ‘EM BACK ALIVE was most likely staged, since it had been filmed from three different camera angles. Modern Mechanix magazine interviewed Buck and cameraman Nick Cavaliere about the filming and incorporated their explanation into a cover story that appeared in the November 1932 issue. This article also talked about a proposed big game trap (pictured on the cover) that would use non-lethal charges of electricity to temporarily stun an animal so that it could be safely and humanly captured. (There is no record of such a device ever being used by Frank Buck or anyone else!) Eric Beheim
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I am a fair person, and I am "with and for animals" that's all. I would not let Ian, on one side of the fence whack Frank Buck, because he is dead. I am also not going to let Eric Beheim, on the other side of the fence hang paper for him, hence my below comment to the "History Channel":

Eric,
I think the below statement along with a picture in the referenced article, which Buck authorized and is 8 pages of Buck and staff quotes, may suggest that he "did" have this trap along and "did" use it. But I guess it is in the interpretation:

"Designed especially for the use in the Malay Jungles where Frank Buck carries the most modern methods of animal trapping, this ingenious device may soon come into widespread us as a tiger trap. The illustration shows the parts exposed, though in actual practice, the mechanism is camouflaged under foliage. A 1500-volt current of 1/20th ampere is sufficient to prostate beasts stepping on the plates, disabling but not killing them. A circuit breaker shuts off the juice when it's work is done, to avoid danger of fatal shock. A bell signal warns the hunter when the trap is sprung so he can recover the victim immediately."
I suggest this "ingenious device" may also have been the predecessor to the Happy Dancing Chickens of IQ Zoo fame?
Wade Burck
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I also note after two day's nobody has come to Clyde Beattys defense and rebutted this statement. If it is "History" and not self serving "jackpots", do we assume it is true, or is everyone afraid to rebut?

Although the real truth about how this sequence was filmed will probably never be known for sure, it is more likely that the waterhole was included in the section of jungle that the filmmakers enclosed inside the fence. The python and the tiger were then put inside together, and the cameramen filmed the result when they met. (This rather callous method for getting exciting action footage was also used by Clyde Beatty, who staged fights between lions and tigers for his films.)
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