The Living Desert was the very first feature film in Disney's True-Life Adventures series of docudramas concentrating on zoological researches; the previous movies in the collection, consisting of the Academy Acclaimed Seal Island, were short subjects. The documentary was recorded at the Westward Look Wyndham Grand Hotel and Medical Spa in Tucson, Arizona. Most of the wild animals received the film was contributed to what would certainly quickly end up being the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. The movie was influenced by 10 minutes of video fired by N. Paul Kenworthy Jr., a doctoral pupil at the University of The Golden State at Los Angeles. Kenworthy's video of a fight between a tarantula as well as a wasp captivated Disney, that funded a feature-length manufacturing complying with the lives of varied desert varieties. Disney was extremely helpful of Kenworthy's job as well as its influence on nonfiction filmmaking, stating, "This is where we can inform an actual, continual tale for the very first time in these nature pictures."
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The Living Desert was the very first feature film in Disney's True-Life Adventures series of docudramas concentrating on zoological researches; the previous movies in the collection, consisting of the Academy Acclaimed Seal Island, were short subjects. The documentary was recorded at the Westward Look Wyndham Grand Hotel and Medical Spa in Tucson, Arizona. Most of the wild animals received the film was contributed to what would certainly quickly end up being the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. The movie was influenced by 10 minutes of video fired by N. Paul Kenworthy Jr., a doctoral pupil at the University of The Golden State at Los Angeles. Kenworthy's video of a fight between a tarantula as well as a wasp captivated Disney, that funded a feature-length manufacturing complying with the lives of varied desert varieties. Disney was extremely helpful of Kenworthy's job as well as its influence on nonfiction filmmaking, stating, "This is where we can inform an actual, continual tale for the very first time in these nature pictures."
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