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The Living Desert: Directed by James Algar. With Winston Hibler. Although first glance reveals little more than stones and sand, the desert is alive. Witness moving rocks, spitting mud pots, gorgeous flowers and the never-ending battle for survival between creatures of every shape, size and description.
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- Family, Documentary
- James Algar
- 1953-11-10
The Living Desert is a 1953 American nature documentary film that shows the everyday lives of the animals of the desert of the Southwestern United States. The film was written by James Algar, Winston Hibler, Jack Moffitt (uncredited) and Ted Sears.
The result was The Living Desert, a colorful portrait of animals and plants dwelling in arid stretches between the Missouri River and the Sierra Nevada mountains. The terrain looks dead and forbidding but actually pulses with life in a rich variety of forms, ranging from bugs, snakes, and lizards to toads, tortoises, bats, birds, and bobcats.
- James Algar
- Winston Hibler
The Living Desert - 1953. In 1948, Walt Disney released the first in a series of nature documentaries called True-Life Adventures. Walt hired photographers around the world to shoot live footage of animals in their natural habitat and his filmmakers would edit them into films.
Moving rocks, spitting mud pots, gorgeous flowers and the never-ending battle for survival between desert creatures of every shape, size and description, all captured by magical photography and awe-inspiring time-lapse sequences.
Moving rocks, spitting mud pots, gorgeous flowers and the never-ending battle for survival between desert creatures of every shape, size and description, all captured by magical photography and awe-inspiring time-lapse sequences.
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- 69 min
