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The Living Desert was the initial feature film in Disney's True-Life Adventures series of docudramas concentrating on zoological research studies; the previous movies in the series, including the Academy Prize-winning Seal Island, were short topics. The documentary was filmed at the Westward Look Wyndham Grand Resort as well as Health Facility in Tucson, Arizona. The majority of the wildlife displayed in the movie was contributed to what would quickly come to be the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. The movie was influenced by 10 mins of video footage shot by N. Paul Kenworthy Jr., a doctoral student at the University of California at Los Angeles. Kenworthy's footage of a battle in between a tarantula and also a wasp intrigued Disney, that moneyed a feature-length production adhering to the lives of varied desert varieties. Disney was very helpful of Kenworthy's job and its influence on nonfiction filmmaking, specifying, "This is where we can inform an actual, sustained tale for the very first time in these nature photos."