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The Living Desert was the very first feature film in Disney's True-Life Adventures collection of docudramas concentrating on zoological research studies; the previous movies in the collection, including the Academy Prize-winning Seal Island, were short subjects. The docudrama was shot at the Westward Look Wyndham Grand Hotel and also Medspa in Tucson, Arizona. Most of the wildlife received the movie was given away to what would quickly come to be the Arizona-Sonora Desert Gallery. The film was influenced by 10 minutes of video fired by N. Paul Kenworthy Jr., a doctoral trainee at the College of The Golden State at Los Angeles. Kenworthy's video footage of a fight between a tarantula and a wasp interested Disney, who moneyed a feature-length production complying with the lives of varied desert species. Disney was very helpful of Kenworthy's work and also its effect on nonfiction filmmaking, mentioning, "This is where we can tell a genuine, continual story for the first time in these nature images."