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Bambi

Genre
Animation
Rating
G
Released
21 August, 1942
Bambi

Bambi is a 1942 American animated drama film directed by David Hand, produced by Walt Disney and based on the 1923 book Bambi, a Life in the Woods by Austrian author and hunter Felix Salten. The film was released by RKO Radio Pictures on August 13, 1942, and is the fifth Disney animated feature film. The main characters are Bambi, a white-tailed deer; his parents; his friends Thumper; and Flower; 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 America. The film received three Academy Award nominations: Best Sound, Best Song and Original Music Score.

Director Supervising director, David Hand, Sequence directors, James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Norman Wright
Produced by Walt Disney
Story by Story direction, Perce Pearce, Story adaptation, Larry Morey, Story development, Vernon Stallings, Melvin Shaw, Carl Fallberg, Chuck Couch, Ralph Wright
Starring see below
Music Frank Churchill, Edward H. Plumb
Production, company Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
Released August 9, 1942 (World Premiere-London), August 13, 1942 (Premiere-New York City), August 21, 1942 (U.S.)
Running time 70 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $858,000
Box office $267.4 million

About Bambi

Disney classic about a young deer that grows up in the forest. The movie is directed by David Hand and is based on the Felix Salten 1923 book Bambi, a Life in the Woods. It was the fifth Disney animated feature film.

Achievement of Bambi

The movie earned Academy Award nominations for Best Sound, Best Song and Original Music Score. The movie was added to National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2011.

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Latest information about Bambi updated on July 28 2021.