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Bambi

1942 · Film · 70 min

  • Animation
  • Drama
  • Family

Plot

Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.

About Bambi

Bambi is a 1942 American animated coming-of-age film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures, loosely based on Felix Salten's 1923 novel Bambi, a Life in the Woods. It was directed by David D. Hand, and a team of six sequence directors. The main characters are Bambi, a white-tailed deer; his parents (the Great Prince of the forest and his unnamed mother); his friends Thumper (a pink-nosed cottontail rabbit) and Flower (a skunk); and his childhood friend and future mate, Faline. In the original book, Bambi was a roe deer, a species native to Europe, but Disney decided to base the character on a mule deer from Arrowhead, California. Illustrator Maurice "Jake" Day convinced Disney that the mule deer had large "mule-like" ears and were more common to western North America, but that the white-tail deer was more recognized throughout the United States. The film received three Academy Award nominations: Best Sound (Sam Slyfield), Best Song (for "Love Is a Song" sung by Donald Novis) and Original Music Score. In June 2008, the American Film Institute presented a list of its "10 Top 10"—the best ten films in each of ten classic American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. Bambi attained third in animation. In December 2011, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, being…

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Series

Part of Walt Disney Animation Studios feature film. Followed by Bambi II (2005).

Awards

1 award on record:

  • Genesis Award

Also nominated for 2 other awards: Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score, Academy Award for Best Sound.

As recorded on Wikidata, which may not list every award.

Cast

  • Donnie DunaganYoung Bambi (voice) (uncredited)
  • Peter BehnYoung Thumper (voice) (uncredited)
  • Stan AlexanderYoung Flower (voice) (uncredited)
  • Cammie KingYoung Faline (voice) (uncredited)
  • Will WrightFriend Owl (voice) (uncredited)
  • Hardie AlbrightAdolescent Bambi (voice) (uncredited)
  • Ann GillisAdolescent Faline (voice) (uncredited)
  • Tim DavisAdolescent Thumper / Adolescent Flower (voice) (uncredited)
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