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Bambi Overview:

Bambi (1942) was a Animation - Drama Film directed by James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, David Hand, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield and Norman Wright and produced by Walt Disney.

SYNOPSIS

In Disney's legendary animated forest fable, a fawn named Bambi is born, and his mother is soon killed by a hunter. Bambi grows up befriending such memorable animal babies as the irrepressible Thumper and receiving a sometimes unkind education from Mother Nature. Eventually, he comes of age, completing the cycle of life and taking his father's place. A kids' classic that no one should miss.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

Bambi was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2011.

Academy Awards 1942 --- Ceremony Number 15 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Music - ScoringFrank Churchill, Edward PlumbNominated
Best Music - SongMusic by Frank Churchill; Lyrics by Larry MoreyNominated
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Bambi Quotes:

Friend Owl: Same thing every spring. "Tweet-tweet, tweet-tweet! Tweet-tweet, tweet-tweet!" Love's sweet song. Hm! Pain in the pinfeathers, I call it!
Friend Owl: I was talking to myself about you the other day, we were wondering what became of you.
[repeated line]
Friend Owl: [everytime he is woken up] Oh, what now?
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Bambi Facts
Walt Disney and his staff attended a preview of "Bambi" in a Pomona theater on February 28, 1942, only a few months before the film was released. During the screening, the audience remained quiet; Walt didn't know if they were spellbound or bored. The audience was shocked by the scene of Bambi's mother being shot to death, but when Bambi starts looking around for her and calling out, asking where she is, a teenager in the audience answered, "Here I am, Bambi!", causing everyone else in the audience - except Walt's staff - to howl with laughter. Walt and his staff left the theater in disappointment, but Walt refused to cut the scene from the movie, insisting that the movie was right as it was. Bambi's mother's death is considered to be one of the most tragic, heartbreaking moments ever, not only in Disney movies, but in movies in general.
"Man" was ranked the #20 villain on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest heroes and villains - the only character on the list not to appear on-screen.
June 2008 Ranked #3 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Animation".
Some scenes of woodland creatures and the forest fire are unused footage from Pinocchio.
No matter how skilled the animator, the Disney cartoonists simply could not draw Bambi's father's antlers accurately. This was because of the very complicated perspectives required. To get round the problem, a plaster cast was made of some real antlers which was then filmed at all angles. This footage was then rotoscoped onto animation cels.
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