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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
"Man is in the forest" was a code phrase used by Disney's employees when Walt Disney was coming down the hallway.
The Disney studios were walking a very precarious line financially, and were constantly on the verge of bankruptcy. A studio strike and, of course, the outbreak of war - which deprived them of their lucrative European market - didn't help matters. Disney was able to secure another loan from the Bank of America, but when both Pinocchio and Fantasia failed at the box office, a lot was riding on Bambi to be a success.
CASTLE THUNDER: Heard a few times when the storm in the "April Shower" sequence is about to start. It's also heard when the storm clouds are beginning to part and the sun begins coming out.
The movie is responsible for the so-called "Bambi-confusion" ("Bambi-Irrtum") in German-speaking countries. In the book Bambi is a roe-deer (German: Reh). But since there are no roe-deers in the US, Walt Disney changed Bambi's appearance to that of a white-tailed deer, which in turn is unknown in Europe. However, both the original German-dubbed version from 1950 and the re-dubbing from 1970 stuck to the original Felix Salten version and called Bambi a roe-deer instead of a stag (German: Hirsch), which would be a lot more correct. Since the appearance of Bambi's father and Bambi in adult life resemble a red-deer (which is common in Europe) a lot closer than an adult roe-deer, kids in German-speaking regions for the past 60 years have come to believe that a Reh (roe-deer) is the younger version of a (Rot) Hirsch (Red deer). This confusion has never really been cleared up for many so that this is now even taught to children by their parents who saw the movie when they were young.
"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.
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