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The Living Desert was the very first feature-length film in Disney's True-Life Adventures series of docudramas focusing on zoological researches; the previous films in the series, including the Academy Acclaimed Seal Island, were short subjects. The docudrama was recorded at the Westward Look Wyndham Grand Hotel and also Health Facility in Tucson, Arizona. Most of the wildlife displayed in the film was contributed to what would quickly become the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. The film was motivated by 10 minutes of video fired by N. Paul Kenworthy Jr., a doctoral trainee at the University of The Golden State at Los Angeles. Kenworthy's footage of a fight between an arachnid and a wasp captivated Disney, that funded a feature-length production adhering to the lives of diverse desert species. Disney was extremely supportive of Kenworthy's work and its impact on nonfiction filmmaking, specifying, "This is where we can tell a genuine, continual tale for the first time in these nature images."