Bambi
1942 American animated film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bambi is a 1942 American animated drama film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is based on the 1923 novel Bambi, a Life in the Woods by Austrian author and hunter Felix Salten.[4][5] The film was produced by Walt Disney and directed by David Hand and a team of sequence directors.
Bambi | |
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Directed by | Supervising director David Hand Sequence directors James Algar Samuel Armstrong Graham Heid Bill Roberts Paul Satterfield Norman Wright |
Story by | Story direction Perce Pearce Story adaptation Larry Morey Story development Vernon Stallings Melvin Shaw Carl Fallberg Chuck Couch Ralph Wright |
Based on | Bambi, a Life in the Woods by Felix Salten |
Produced by | Walt Disney |
Starring | see below |
Music by | Frank Churchill Edward H. Plumb |
Production company | |
Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Release dates | |
Running time | 70 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $858,000[2] |
Box office | $267.4 million[3] |
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 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.[6][7][8] 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 America.[9]
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.[10]
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 placed third in animation.[11] In December 2011, the film was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant".[12][13][14]
In January 2020, it was announced that a photorealistic computer-animated remake was in development.[15]