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This article is about the 1942 Disney animated film. For the original novel, see Bambi, A Life in the Woods. For other uses, see Bambi (disambiguation).
Bambi
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Directed byDavid Dodd Hand
Written byFelix Salten (novel)
Larry Morey (story adaptation)
Perce Pearce (story direction)
Gustaf Tenggren (illustration)
Produced byWalt Disney
StarringBobby Stewart
Donnie Dunagan
Hardie Albright
John Sutherland
Paula Winslowe
Peter Behn
Tim Davis
Sam Edwards
Will Wright
Cammie King
Ann Gillis
Fred Shields
Stan Alexander
Sterling Holloway
Music byFrank Churchill
Edward H. Plumb
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release dates
August 13, 1942
Running time
70 min.
Country United States
LanguageEnglish
BudgetOver $2,000,000[1]

Bambi is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney.The fifth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, the film is based on the 1923 book Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Austrian author Felix Salten.The plot centers arond a baby fawn, named Bambi, who learns to grow up in the wild after his mother is shot by hunters.The main characters are Bambi, a white-tailed deer, his parents (the Great Prince of the forest and his unnamed mother), and his friends Thumper (a pink-nosed rabbit), Flower (a skunk), and his childhood friend and future mate, Faline.For the film, Disney took the liberty of changing Bambi's species into a white-tailed deer from his original species of roe deer, since roe deer don't inhabit the United States, and the white-tailed deer is more familiar to Americans. The film received three Academy Award nominations for Best Sound, Best Song for "Love is a song" and Original Music Score.The term "Bambi eyes" was created in response to the film to describe an innocent look that people can make with their eyes to generate sympathy.On March 1, 2005, a 2-disc Platinum Edition Disney DVD was released, featuring a fully restored print of the film[2].A direct-to-video midquel, Bambi II, was released on February 7, 2006.Set in middle of the original, it shows the Great Prince of the Forest struggling to raise the now motherless Bambi, and Bambi's doubts about his father's love.Also, it was the last Disney film to be released on VHS.Originally released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on August 13, 1942, Bambi has started many controversies because of its dark undertones and although the film received good reviews, it was criticized as being inappropriate for children because of the death of Bambi's mother, as well as the scary violence of the hunting scenes, dog attacks, and the forest fire climax. Also, it did poorly at the box office during its original release.[3]In June 2008, the American Film Institute revealed its "Ten top Ten"—the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. Bambi was acknowledged as the third best film in the animation genre.[4] Also, former Beatle, Paul McCartney has credited the shooting death of Bambi's mother for his initial interest in animal rights,[5] and the off-screen villain "Man" has also become one of the most despised villains of all time and has been placed as #20 on AFI's List of Heroes and Villians[6]The story of the natural life cycle (birth, death, and re-birth) is the true plot of the film. It's a case study in the very basics of life: the "doe-eyed" innocence of childhood, parental love, discovering and learning about the world around us (both its beauty and its danger), loss and grief, developing friendships, loyalty, balancing risk and need, growing toward independence, being at one and in harmony with nature,and romantic love.Like the majority of Walt Disney's feature-length animated narratives, Bambi embraces both joy and tragedy. Bambi is a movie that alternates frequently between these two extremes, with the one typically being used to set up the other. For instance, the joy of Bambi's first walk through the forest is interrupted by a frightening thunderstorm. His first visit to the meadow is joyful until it is interrupted by hunters who fire upon Bambi and his mother.

Plot

A doe gives birth to a fawn in the thicket whom she names Bambi. After he learns to walk, Bambi befriends Thumper, a young rabbit, and while learning to talk he meets Flower, a young skunk. One day his mother takes him to the meadow, a place that is both wonderful and frightening. There he meets Faline, a doe-fawn, and his father, the Great Prince of the Forest. It is also during this visit that Bambi has his first encounter with man, who causes all the animals to flee the meadow. During a harsh winter, Bambi and his mother go to the meadow and discover a patch of new grass, heralding the arrival of spring. As they eat, his mother senses a hunter and orders Bambi to flee. As they run, gun shots ring out. When Bambi arrives at their thicket, he discovers his mother is no longer with him. He wanders the forest calling for her, but she doesn't answer. His father appears in front of him and tells Bambi that his mother can't be with him anymore, then leads him away.This scene has often been voted as the saddest/most tear-jerking moment in motion-picture history. The film then skips forward in time (that gap was filled in Bambi II) to the spring,where an adult Bambi is reunited with Thumper and Flower as the animals around them begin pairing up with mates. Though they resolve not to be "twitterpated" like the other animals in love, Thumper and Flower each leave with newly found mates. Bambi is disgusted, until he bumps into Faline.He gets kissed and the two become a couple. As they happily dance and flirt through the woods, another buck appears who tries to force Faline to go with him.(In Bambi II,as well as the original novel,his name was reveled to be Ronno.Though he initially struggles, Bambi's rage gives him the strength to defeat the older buck and push him off a cliff and into a river below.That night, Bambi is awoken by the smell of smoke. His Father explains that Man is in the forest and they must flee. Bambi goes back to search for Faline, but she is being chased by hunting dogs. Bambi finds her in time and fights off the dogs, allowing Faline to escape. With Faline safe, Bambi runs but is shot as he leaps over a ravine. The Great Prince finds him there and urges him back to his feet. Together, they escape the forest fire and go to a small island in the lake where the other animals, including Faline, have taken refuge.At the end of the film, Faline gives birth to twin fawns, Bambi stands watch on the large hill, and the Great Prince silently turns and walks away.

Production

Walt Disney attempted to achieve realistic detail in this animated film. The artists heard lectures from animal experts, and visited the Los Angeles Zoo.[7] A pair of fawns (named Bambi and Faline) were shipped from the area of present day Baxter State Park in Maine to the studio so that the artists could see first-hand the movement of these animals. The source of these fawns, from the Eastern United States, was the impetus for the transformation of Felix Salten's roe deer to white-tailed deer.[8] The background of the film was also the Eastern woodlands — one of the earliest and best known artists for the Disney studio, Maurice "Jake" Day spent several weeks in the Vermont and Maine forests, sketching and photographing deer, fawns, and the surrounding wilderness areas.[9]

Characters

Characters from Bambi

  • Bambi, voiced by Bobby Stewart, Donnie Dunagan, and Alexander Gould, is the protagonist of the story. In the first film, he is often cute and innocent.In the second film, saddened and traumatized by the loss of his mother, Bambi copes with his new life without her. Throughout the second film he constantly tries to win the attention, support, and love he needs from his father.
  • The Great Prince of the Forest, voiced by Fred Shields and Patrick Stewart', is Bambi's father. Thoughout the first film, the Great Prince is always never around.In Bambi II, he feels that a father is not what Bambi needs, and he tries to send Bambi away rather than teach him the ways of having the crown of the forest. Things are not helped much by the fact that he is used to a solitary, quiet life. In spite of this, he learns how to become a loving father and friend to Bambi.
  • Thumper, voiced by Peter Behn, Tim Davis, and Brendon Baerg', is Bambi's main best friend.In the first film, he helps Bambi discover new things,like "bird","flower", and "butterfly".In Bambi II, he helps Bambi try to impress his father. Thumper also spends much of his time fleeing from his four sisters as he reaches a more or less teenage mentality and finds them irritating.
  • Bambi's mother, voiced by Paula Winslowe, is Bambi's main parent thoughtout the film.Her death has saddened many.In Bambi II,she is voiced by Carolyn Hennes, and makes one breif appearance in a dream sequence in which she comforts Bambi. She is also present in an emotional sense throughout the film; whenever she is mentioned, Bambi's father becomes crestfallen.
  • Faline, voiced by Cammie King, Ann Gillis, and Andrea Bowen', is one of Bambi's childhood friends and eventually grows up to become his mate.In Bambi II, her effect on Bambi has changed little since the first film. Whenever she is around, Bambi generally becomes tongue-tied and very clumsy. However, when Ronno tries to force Faline to leave, Bambi stands up for her,in what looks like a back-to-back screen-shot of the mirroring scene in the original.Also, just like in Bambi, Ronno and Bambi have a fight, only this time much brifer.The scene is a direct mirroring of the scene in the original, and the fight is broken only after Meana comes in.Ronno, still enraged, bumps into Bambi causing Meana to fall into one of Man's traps.So now Bambi has to fight the dogs just like he did the original.GO BAMBI!
  • Friend Owl, voiced by Will Wright in Bambi and Keith Ferguson, in Bambi II, is a friendly but irritable old owl.Thumper and his baby sisters are always waking him up going "Wake Up!Wake Up, Friend Owl!"?He will respond going "Oh, NOW what?!"(all played for laughs).In Bambi II, Friend Owl is asked by the Great Prince to find a suitable doe to raise Bambi.
  • Ronno, voiced by Anthony Ghannam', fights Bambi for the affections of Faline and is generally full of bluster. According to production notes, Ronno was the unnamed deer who fought Bambi in the original film for Faline as well.

Characters from Bambi II

  • The Groundhog, voiced by Brian Pimental (who coincidenly directed Bambi II), is the focus of the forest's Groundhog Day celebrations. On February 2 each year, the Groundhog comes out into the forest square and determines whether or not winter will last a few more weeks. Ironically, he hates the job and is scared of his own shadow, complaining that "my nerves just can't take it any more."
  • The Porcupine, voiced by Brian Pimental (again, coincidence), is a minor character who is extremely territorial and vindictive. As the forest's resident grouch, he regularly takes pleasure in keeping animals away from his log home. Bambi's first encounter with the Porcupine ends in a painful and humiliating defeat for Bambi. Their second confrontation leads to the Porcupine being used as catapult ammunition. The porcupine also causes Bambi to accidentally kiss Faline at the end of the movie.
  • Mena, voiced by Cree Summer (who also voiced Kida in Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire), is the doe Friend Owl finds as a surrogate mother for Bambi, in order to allow the Great Prince to focus his attention on protecting the forest. Friend Owl found her just when Bambi and the Great Prince were beginning to bond, nearly ruining the relationship. She grew up with Bambi's mother.

Critical Reaction, Reception, Controversies, Copyrights, and Smokey the Bear Wildfire Prevention

The death of Bambi's mother is one of the most famous moments in American film history, a moment so upsetting to certain children that they had to be carried sobbing from the theater, and although the film originally received good reviews, along with Bambi's brutal fight with a rival buck and the horrific climactic hunting/forest fire sequence, many critics question whether or not Bambi' is suitable for very young audiences.The film also was a box office flop, possibly due to World War II.When Bambi was shown during the Christmas period in December 2006 on UK channel ITV 2, the death scene of Bambi's Mother and the Prince telling Bambi she was dead was deleted.[10]When one takes Bambi together with the other Disney feature films created during the same period of the early 40s, such as the dark Pinocchio, the powerful Fantasia, and the serious Victory Through Air Power, one can see an attempt by Walt Disney to produce films pushing against the stereotype of Disney animation being "children's films". A quote from Walt Disney himself says:[11]"I don’t believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn’t treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should. Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil, and that is what our pictures attempt to do." Nonetheless, it wasn't until nearly 40 years later that Disney featured the death of a parent in one of their movies (Tod's mom in The Fox and the Hound), and more than 50 years later before it happened again (Mufasa dies in The Lion King). .Yet, in today's environment of drugs, violence, The Simpsons, and so-called "professional critics", the film has a reputation of being a "boring, plotless, overly cute,climaxless, baby movie."Despite this, the film is today viewed as both a classic and a masterpiece, and has received a Platinum Edition Disney DVD on March 1, 2005, followed by a direct-to-video midquel named Bambi II, which follows the death of Bambi's mother and fills the gap that was made when Bambi follows his father into the thicket.Critics Mick Martin and Marsha Porter call the film "...the crowning achievement of Walt Disney's animation studio." In March 1989, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Manuel Lujan Jr. has criticized the film Bambi for propagating the idea that the best way to manage the forest resources within the U.S. was to fight forest fires. Secretary Lujan Jr. points out that controlled burning is now recognized as more beneficial, and that forest animals, such as Bambi, simply move out of the way of forest fires and, in general, are not killed by them. [1] This is perhaps ironic, but an interesting indicator of changing scientific attitudes, as the U.S. Forest Service originally used Bambi with limited permission from Disney as their charismatic anti-fire mascot before they developed the now-famous Smokey Bear. [2] [3].Of course, since Bambi was made in 1942, before controlled burnings was theorized, most feel the Secretary of the Interior is over thinking the situation.Some eyebrows were also raised over the fact that in related literature Eena, Faline's mother, was referred to as Bambi's "Aunt Eena", which would mean in theory that Bambi and Faline were cousins. However, it has been pointed out that the reference to Eena as Bambi's aunt may have been a term of familiarity, much the way children may call an older male friend "Uncle".[citation needed]Some hunting magazines, including Field and Stream and Outdoor Life have implied that the title character stands for the anti-hunting position held by PeTA, and other "Animal Rights" groups.[citation needed]When Bambi was first released in 1942, people were horrorfied by the forrest fire scene and realized they needed to do something about forrest fires.Soon after, Walt Disney allowed his characters to appear in fire prevention public service campaigns. However, Bambi was only loaned to the government for a year, so a new symbol was needed, leading to the creation of Smokey Bear.In 2006,the Ad Council, in partnership with the United States Forest Service, started a series of Public Service Announcement ads that feature footage from Bambi for wildfire prevention. During the ads, as the Bambi footage is shown, the screen will momentarily fade into black with the text "Don't let our forests...become once upon a time", and usually (but not always) ending the ads with Bambi's line "Mother, what we gonna do today?" followed by Smokey Bear saying "Only you can prevent wildfires" as the Smokey logo is shown on the screen.The ads air on various television networks, and the Ad Council has also put them on Youtube.Also, many posters have been put up fo this ad, using the DVD cover art for Bambi II.Recently, they have also been doing the same for The Little Mermaid, this time using the DVD cover art for The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning.

Release history

Release dates

United States

International

Re-release schedule & home video

Bambi was released in theaters in 1942, during World War II and was Disney's 5th full length animated film. It was an advance over the previous movies in sophistication of the animation, due to the experience gained in character animation at the Disney studio. The famous art direction of Bambi, which suggests emotion and the feeling of a forest rather than depicting a real forest, was due to the influence of Tyrus Wong, a former painter who provided eastern and painterly influence to the backgrounds. Bambi was re-released to theaters in 1947, 1957, 1966, 1975, 1982, and 1988. It was released on VHS in 1989 (Classics Version), 1997 (Masterpiece Collection Version), and digitally remastered and restored for the March 1 2005 Platinum Edition DVD.[2] The Platinum Edition DVD went on moratorium on January 31 2007.[12] The Masterpiece Version was the first Disney Video to be THX certified.

Recycled animation from Bambi in other films

Animation from Bambi has been reused in several other Disney films, especially footage of birds, leaves and generic woodland. For example, one scene in The Fox and the Hound reused footage of the animals running from the rain in Bambi's "Little April Shower" sequence. The most reused footage from Bambi are the few seconds of Bambi's mother looking up from eating grass just before she is killed by the hunter. This footage has been used in hunting scenes in The Sword in the Stone as a deer Kay almost kills, and in The Jungle Book as a deer Shere Khan unsuccessfully hunts, which is fairly ironic given what actually happens to the character in Bambi. It is also featured in The Rescuers during the song "Someone's Waiting For You" and in the opening scene of Beauty and the Beast. Even a latter-day Donald Duck short featured Bambi and his mother. They are drinking from a stream and then a bunch of garbage floats past them in the stream and Bambi's mother says to him calmly, "Man is in the forest. Let's dig out." They then leave.[citation needed]

Copyrights

The copyrights for Bambi were inherited by Anna Wyler, Salten's daughter, who renewed them in 1954. After her death, Wyler's husband sold the rights to Twin Books, which subsequently filed a law suit against Disney, claiming Disney owed it money for the continued licensing for the use of the book. Disney countered by claiming that Salten had published the story in 1923 without a copyright notice, and was thus immediately entered into the public domain. Disney also argued that if the claimed 1923 publication date was accurate, then the copyright renewal filed in 1954 had been registered after the deadline and was thus invalid. The courts initially upheld Disney's view, however in 1996, the Ninth Circuit Court reversed the decision on appeal.[13]

Errors in Animation

Several errors occur in the animation for the original film, from color to appearance to the way the characters move around. The Platinum Edition of the Bambi Disney DVD was released with most of these errors fixed: (1) In the opening credits, each frame has a black border around it, like on a computer screen.* (2) The color of Mrs. Rabbit's fur changed three times during the film, ranging from grey to peach.* (3) Bambi's walk through the forest starts with five rabbits walking with Bambi, including Thumper. Thumper's sisters change color from peach to brown, and sometimes there are two peach rabbits, or three brown ones. The number of Thumper's sisters ranges from four to six during this sequence.** (4) When Bambi and his mother are going to the meadow,after Bambi says "Then why don't I ever see them?," we're taken to a shot with Bambi's mother emerging from a bush. We see her flash onto the screen after she has come out of the bush. (5) When the Great Prince is "feeling the forest", for about ten seconds you can see a few lines wriggling under his feet.* (6) When Bambi and the Great Prince are looking down on Man's campfires, we see a shot of crows following the sequence and as the crows fly away, the same frame is repeated. As we switch to Faline, her eyes change color from blue to red.** (7) When all of the creatures are climbing out of the pond to escape the fire, we see a mother raccoon licking its baby, but in the next frame, it changes position. * Errors present only in the 1989 VHS. ** Errors not fixed on the Platinum Edition.

Trivia

  • Bambi is the first of several Disney films to kill off several protaginists(including Bambi's mother), the next dramatic one being in The Lion King, released in 1994 which sees the death of Simba's father, Mufasa, dying in a stampede and several animals dying under Scar's rule.
  • Famous Georgian writer Vazha-Pshavela had earlier published a book called "A Fawn's Tale", about a little fawn whose mother is killed by a hunter.[citation needed]
  • This film was the personal favorite of Walt Disney.[citation needed]
  • One of the many rejected ideas for this film was to show the hunter being killed by the very forest fire that he had accidentally started.[citation needed]
  • In the original novel, Faline had a twin brother named "Gobo". Along with Gobo, Ronno had a friend called "Karus". There was also a doe named "Marena" and an old doe called "Nettla" who takes care of Bambi after his mother dies. In a side-plot omitted from the Disney film, Gobo is captured by humans as a fawn and raised as a pet. When he returns, he is careless and ill-adapted to life in the wild, and he dies when he mistakenly approaches a hunter.
  • The use of implied violence by an unseen threat, expressed solely through music (a low, simple, repeating musical motif), were powerful psychological techniques Steven Spielberg later famously adopted in Jaws.
  • In a recent interview to Newsweek magazine, Spielberg says he that considers Bambi the biggest crying movie of all time. "When I was a kid, I would actually get up in the middle of the night and make sure my parents were still alive."Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
  • In 1993, the producers at Warner Bros. Animation made a parody of this element on one of their Animaniacs episodes, a Slappy Squirrel segment entitled "Bumbie's Mom." In it, Slappy and her nephew Skippy go see the film "Bumbie," a direct parody of Bambi, down to a Thumper-like rabbit who bumps his buttocks (according to Slappy, this is because he "ate too much sugar"). However, when Bumbie's mother gets shot offscreen, like the original film, Skippy bursts into tears. The forest fire scene is also parodied, also scaring Skippy and making him cry harder. Slappy winds up pulling the sobbing Skippy out of the theater, and then they go to visit the actress (a female elderly deer), where Skippy learns that the deer playing Bumbie's mom was not really killed.
  • In Kingdom Hearts, a popular video game created by Squaresoft and Disney, Bambi makes an appearance as a Summon creature who runs around and drops items beneficial to the party.
  • In an early draft of the screenplay for Who Framed Roger Rabbit, it was intended to reveal that Judge Doom was the person who killed Bambi's mother. However, Roy E. Disney, nephew of Walt and at the time head of Walt Disney Feature Animation, discarded the idea, feeling the association inappropriate. Mentioning the idea at one of the weekly Sunday gatherings of top WDFA animators, it was decided spontaneously that it would make sense to hint at Gaston being the infamous hunter. Thus, some Disney fans suggest that Gaston in Beauty and the Beast was the hunter who shot Bambi's mother because they see a doe's head, believed to be that of Bambi's mother, mounted on the wall of the tavern during the musical number "Gaston". Other fans discredit this idea by pointing out that Bambi clearly takes place in North America, whereas Beauty and the Beast is clearly in France. They say that head could be any doe and isn't neccessarily a white-tailed deer at all.
  • Before Thumper's name was finalized, he was referred to as "Bobo" in some sketches, as stated on the 2005 DVD.
  • Also stated on the DVD, in an early draft of the script, Bambi actually found his mother after she had been shot, lying in a pool of blood, but it was thought to be sad enough without this and compltely inapporprite for children.
  • In the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever two characters are named Bambi and Thumper. (Ian Fleming's reference)
  • In the original novel, Faline had a twin brother named "Gobo". Along with Gobo, Ronno had a friend called "Karus". There was also a doe named "Marena" and an old doe called "Nettla" who takes care of Bambi after his mother dies.
  • Saturday Night Live's TV Funhouse segment, used Bambi as a means to lampoon Disney's usage of older properties for new direct-to-video sequels in the form of Bambi 2002 as well as Disney's standard of pulling off their movies from retail and putting them in the Disney vault. Of course, being TV Funhouse, the entire segment consists of rather absurd sequences involving a rapping Bambi, terrorists, Jared Fogle, and the New York Yankees to name a few.

Similarities with The Lion King

52 years following the release of Bambi, the movie inspired certain plot ideas for Disney's 32nd animated film, The Lion King. The main characters in the film are cast as African lions, as Simba, a young lion cub, learns his place in the "Circle of Life". Likewise to Bambi, Simba loses a parent in the course of the film, however, there are no humans noted in the film, as Simba's father, Mufasa, dies in a wildebeest stampede. Simba also is childhood friends with his intended mate (here named Nala), and they are made aware of their arranged marraige, a topic that was beyond them at the time. Simba's uncle, Scar, is the main villain in the film, who killed Mufasa, and also planned to kill Simba, in order to be king. Simba flees the kingdom in shame, only to return to challenge his uncle and eventually become the lion king.

  • The off-screen villain, "Man", has been placed #20 on AFI's List of Heroes and Villains.[14]
  • Several Hunting and fishing magazines, such as Field and Stream claim that this character is a symbol of the "animal rights nuts" who are against fishing and hunting.[need quotation to verify]
  • A strip of Gary Larson's The Far Side depicts a group of woodland animals reminiscing with one another about what they were doing at the moment they learned that Bambi's mother had been shot.
  • In one strip of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin tells his class a story from his report about overpopulation. In the story, a man named Frank gets up from his desk and walks off to get some coffee. Suddenly, Frank gets shot. Four deer, armed with rifles, gather around his body. They praise Bambi's nice shot, who, of course, asks for somebody to get the camera. His report gets him a parent-teacher conference.
  • In an episode of the Jim Henson sitcom Dinosaurs where Robbie goes to a bar for herbivores, a musician there sings a song called "Has Anybody Seen Bambi's Mom?"
  • In an episode of Animaniacs, Slappy Squirrel takes her nephew Skippy to see 'Bumbi, the Dearest Deer', a parody of Bambi. Skippy cries uncontrollably when Bumbi's mother gets killed, prompting Slappy to take him to meet the deer actress who portrayed her.
  • Bambi and Thumper made a cameo appearance in both Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Shrek the Third.

Soundtrack listing

  1. Main Title (Love Is A Song)
  2. Morning In The Woods/The Young Prince/Learning To Walk
  3. Exploring/Say Bird/Flower
  4. Little April Shower
  5. The Meadow/Bambi Sees Faline/Bambi Gets Annoyed
  6. Gallop Of The Stags/The Great Prince Of The Forest/Man
  7. Autumn/The First Snow/Fun On The Ice
  8. The End Of Winter/New Spring Grass/Tragedy In The Meadow
  9. Wintery Winds
  10. Let's Sing A Gay Little Spring Song
  11. It Could Even Happen To Flower
  12. Bambi Gets Twitterpated/Stag Fight
  13. Looking For Romance (I Bring You A Song)
  14. Man Returns
  15. Fire/Reunion/Finale
  16. Rain Drops (Demo Recording)
  17. Bonus Interview – Introduced by Richard Kiley: Walt Disney
  18. Bonus Interview – Introduced by Richard Kiley: Ollie Johnston And Frank Thomas
  19. Bonus Interview – Introduced by Richard Kiley: Henry Mancini

On Classic Disney: 60 Years of Musical Magic, this includes Love is a Song on the red disc, Little April Shower on the green disc, and Looking for Romance (I Bring You a Song) on the purple disc.And on Disney's Greatest Hits, this also includes Little April Shower on another green disc. The original 1942 release included two additional songs (that were subsequently removed):[15]

  1. "Twitterpated": (Based on Friend Owl's lecture on the amorous effects of spring) written by Helen Bliss, Robert Sour and Henry Manners.
  2. "Thumper Song": written by Helen Bliss, Robert Sour and Henry Manners

Voice Cast

Actor Role(s)
Bobby Stewart Baby Bambi
Donnie Dunagan Young Bambi
Hardie Albright Adolescent Bambi
John Sutherland Adult Bambi
Paula Winslowe Bambi's Mother and Pheasant
Peter Behn Young Thumper
Tim Davis Adolescent Thumper, Adolescent Flower
Sam Edwards Adult Thumper
Stan Alexander Young Flower
Sterling Holloway Adult Flower
Will Wright Friend Owl
Cammie King Young Faline
Ann Gillis Adult Faline
Fred Shields Great Prince of the Forest
Thelma Boardman Girl Bunny, Quail Mother and Frightened Pheasant
Mary Lansing Aunt Ena, Mrs. Possum, Pheasant
Margaret Lee Mrs. Rabbit
Otis Harlan Mr. Mole
Marion Darlington Bird calls
Clarence Nash Bullfrog
Stuart Erwin Tree Squirrel

Titles in other languages

Supervising animators

Sequence directors

  • Graham Heid (Bambi and Thumper)
  • Norman Wright (Bambi and Thumper)
  • Sam Armstrong (Bambi and Thumper)
  • James Algar (Bambi and Thumper)
  • Bill Roberts (Bambi and Thumper)
  • Paul Satterfield (Bambi and Thumper)

References

  1. ^ Kevin Jackson 'Tears of a fawn', The Independent, February 6, 2005.
  2. ^ a b How They Restored Bambi, Monsters and Critics. Cite error: The named reference "Critics" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  3. ^ Kevin Jackson 'Tears of a fawn', The Independent, February 6, 2005.
  4. ^ "AFI's 10 Top 10". American Film Institute. 2008-06-17. Retrieved 2008-06-18. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ ‘Bambi’ was cruel bbb.co.uk 12 December 2005. Retrieved: 29 January 2007
  6. ^ [http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/handv.aspx "AFI's 100 YEARS… 100 Heroes & Villains" American Film Institute, n.d., Retrieved 11 May 2006
  7. ^ Walt Disney Collection: Walt's Masterworks — Bambi.
  8. ^ The Trouble with Bambi: Walt Disney's Bambi and the American Vision of Nature by Ralph H. Lutts: From 'Forest and Conservation History' 36 (October 1992)
  9. ^ Maurice E. Day, Animator, 90; Drew Deer for Movie 'Bambi': Obituary in the New York Times, published May 19, 1983)
  10. ^ Kevin Jackson 'Tears of a fawn', The Independent, February 6, 2005.
  11. ^ Walt Disney in seinem Essay http://www.startedbyamouse.com/archives/WaltPrayer.shtml "Deeds rather than words“]1963
  12. ^ IGN.
  13. ^ Schons, Paul. "Bambi, the Austrian Deer". Germanic-American Institute. Retrieved 2008-08-26.
  14. ^ AFI's 100 Years… 100 Heroes and Villains
  15. ^ Soundtrack, IMDb.

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