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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:

[repeated line]
Friend Owl: [everytime he is woken up] Oh, what now?
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.
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Bambi Facts
Sidney Franklin originally initiated "Bambi" as a film project in 1933, envisioning it as a live action film. He had even gone to the stage of recording 'Margaret Sullavan (I)' and Victor Jory's voices for the soundtrack. Eventually he realized that the technology simply wasn't adequate enough to make the film. After seeing Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, it dawned on Franklin that there was someone who could realize "Bambi" as a movie. So he contacted Walt Disney who immediately leaped at the idea of working on the project. Disney started work on the film in 1936, though he was also developing Fantasia, Dumbo and Pinocchio at the same time. All this explains why there is a dedication in the film's opening credits "To Sidney A. Franklin - our sincere appreciation for the inspiring collaboration".
June 2008 Ranked #3 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Animation".
For the film's DVD release in 2005, over 110,000 frames were cleaned up individually, requiring more than 9,600 hours of work. This was done from a copy of the original nitrate negative borrowed from the Library of Congress.
Disney animators spent a year studying and drawing deers and fawns to perfect the look of Bambi and his parents and friends. Deer are notoriously difficult to render in human terms as their eyes are on either side of their face, their mouth does not lend itself to speech and they have no real chin. Ultimately animator Marc Davis resolved these difficulties by infusing the character of Bambi with the traits of a human baby.
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.
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