''Desert Wonderland'' is a 1942 American

short Short may refer to: Places * Short (crater), a lunar impact crater on the near side of the Moon * Short, Mississippi, an unincorporated community * Short, Oklahoma, a census-designated place People * Short (surname) * List of people known as ...

documentary film directed by Russ Shields and Jack Kuhne exploring the

Grand Canyon The Grand Canyon (, yuf-x-yav, Wi:kaʼi:la, , Southern Paiute language: Paxa’uipi, ) is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States. The Grand Canyon is long, up to wide and attains a depth of over a m ...

. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the

15th Academy Awards The 15th Academy Awards was held in the Cocoanut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on March 4, 1943, honoring the films of 1942. The ceremony is most famous for the speech by Greer Garson; accepting the award for Best Actress, Gar ...

for Best Short Subject (One-Reel). The film was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Desert Wonderland 1942 films 1942 short films 1942 documentary films Black-and-white documentary films American short documentary films Films shot in Arizona Works about the Grand Canyon 20th Century Fox short films Documentary films about Arizona 1940s English-language films 1940s American films 1940s short documentary films English-language short documentary films