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The fifth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1953 features our documentary pick, Disney’s The Living Desert. Directed by James Algar, The Living Desert won the Oscar for best documentary feature and was the first feature-length installment in Disney’s True-Life Adventures series.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1953/11/10/archives/two-pictures-have-premieres-the-living-desert-a-disney.html), Richard L. Coe in The Washington Post, and George Bourke in The Miami Herald.

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