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The Living Desert
The Living Desert was the first feature-length film in Disney's True-Life Adventures collection of docudramas concentrating on zoological studies; the previous movies in the collection, consisting of the Academy Award-winning Seal Island, were short topics. The documentary was shot at the Westward Look Wyndham Grand Resort as well as Day Spa in Tucson, Arizona. A lot of the wildlife displayed in the film was donated to what would quickly come to be the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. The movie was influenced by 10 minutes of video footage fired by N. Paul Kenworthy Jr., a doctoral student at the College of The Golden State at Los Angeles. Kenworthy's video footage of a battle between an arachnid and also a wasp fascinated Disney, that funded a feature-length manufacturing adhering to the lives of varied desert types. Disney was very encouraging of Kenworthy's work and its influence on nonfiction filmmaking, stating, "This is where we can inform a genuine, continual story for the very first time in these nature images."