Remove ads
1942 American animated drama film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bambi is a 1942 American-German animated drama movie. David Hand was the head director (he was in charge of other directors). Walt Disney made the movie. It is based on the book Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten. RKO Radio Pictures sent the movie to theatres on August 13, 1942. It is the fifth movie in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. The story is about a baby deer named Bambi. He learns to grow up in the wild after hunters shoot his mother. The main characters are Bambi (a roe deer) his parents (the Great Prince of the forest and his mother), and his friends: Thumper (a rabbit), Flower (a skunk), and Faline (who becomes his wife later).
Bambi | |
---|---|
Directed by | Supervising director David Hand Sequence director 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 | the story of destiny Bambi Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten |
Produced by | Walt Disney |
Starring | Bobby Stewart Donnie Dunagan Hardie Albright John Sutherland Paula Winslowe Peter Behn Tim Davis Sam Edwards Will Wright Cammie King Ann Gillis Fred Shields Stan Alexander Sterling Holloway |
Music by | Frank Churchill Paul J. Smith (score) Edward H. Plumb (orchestration) |
Production company | |
Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Release dates |
|
Running time | 70 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $858,000[2] |
Box office | $267,447,150[3] |
For the movie, Disney changed Bambi to a mule deer. In the book, Bambi was a Roe deer. However, roe deer do not live in the United States, and Americans know more about mule deer. The movie was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Sound (Sam Slyfield), Best Song (for "Love Is a Song" sung by Donald Novis) and Original Music Score.[4] In June 2008, the American Film Institute wrote a list of its "Top 10"—the best ten movies—after asking over 1,500 people. Bambi came in third in animation.[5] In December 2011, the movie was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. After inflation, it is the tenth highest grossing animated movie.
This movie has a sequel called Bambi II.
A little fawn called Bambi is born in the woods. In his first days of life, he explores the forest around him. He makes a friend named Thumper. Thumper is a rabbit. Bambi learns new words every day. Bird is his first word. He learns butterflies, rain, and meadow. He sees his father (the Great Prince of the Forest) for the first time. The movie first shows Bambi's childhood, such as a walk in the woods, a day in the meadow, and his first experience seeing snow.
The most famous part of the movie is the death of Bambi's mother. Bambi and his mother have trouble finding food. One day, Bambi's mother finds a patch of grass, and they eat. The audience hears scary music (Man's theme). Bambi's mother knows there is danger. She tells Bambi to run. As they run across an icy field, she screams "Faster! Faster, Bambi! Don't look back! Keep running! Keep running!". Bambi runs away, but there is a gunshot. Bambi gets back to the den but finds that his mother is not there. He walks around, and desperately calls for her. He meets his father, the Great Prince, who tells him that "your mother can't be with you anymore". Bambi follows his father into the woods, taking one last look behind him.
The next spring, Bambi and his friends are young adults. They meet a wise old owl, called Friend Owl. The owl tells them of the dangers of falling in love. They make vows not to fall in love. However, they fall in love at first sight very soon. Bambi falls in love with his old childhood friend Faline. He happily dances in the clouds until another deer named Ronno gets in the way. He tries to get Faline to go with him, but Bambi does not want to. He gets into a fight with Ronno. Bambi wins. He goes on a date with Faline. The Man comes back and makes more trouble for the animals. Bambi saves Faline from some angry dogs.
A forest fire comes and nearly destroys everything. Bambi has trouble getting up, but his father helps him. They both make it to an island where the animals have got together. The next spring, everyone goes to see Bambi and Faline's new fawns (baby deer). The wise owl says that Bambi should be proud. The Great Prince steps down from his current place as king, and Bambi is left standing proudly. A chorus sings the song from the beginning, Love is a Song.
Walt Disney wanted to have realistic detail in this animated movie. The artists learned from animal experts. They also visited the Los Angeles Zoo.[6] A pair of fawns (named Bambi and Faline) were shipped from the area of present-day Baxter State Park in Maine to the studio so that the artists could see for themselves how these animals move. The source of these fawns, from the Eastern United States, gave the company the idea to change Felix Salten's Roe Deer to a mule deer.[7] The background of the movie was also the Eastern woodlands. One of the earliest and best known artists for the Disney studio, Maurice "Jake" Day, spent a lot of weeks in the Vermont and Maine forests. He drew pictures and took photographs of deer, fawns, and the wilderness areas around them.[8]
None of the voice actors are credited.
Bambi was released in theaters in 1942, during World War II. It was Disney's 5th full-length animated movie. Bambi was released again to theatres in 1947, 1957, 1966, 1975, 1982, and 1988. It was then made available on home video in 1989. Even in home video, Bambi has seen many releases, including two VHS releases, in 1989 (Classics Version) and 1997 (Masterpiece Collection Version), and a digitally-remastered and restored Platinum Edition DVD.[10] The Platinum Edition DVD went on moratorium on January 31, 2007.[11]
Bambi was released in Diamond Edition on March 1, 2011,[12] consisting of a Blu-ray and DVD combo pack. According to Cinema Blend, this release is set to include multiple bonus features that were not previously included in Bambi home releases: a documentary entitled Inside Walt’s Story Meetings – Enhanced Edition, two deleted scenes, a deleted song, an image gallery, and a game entitled Disney’s Big Book of Knowledge: Bambi Edition.[13] The release also marked the first use of "Disney Second Screen",[14] a feature which is accessed via a computer or iPad app download that syncs with the Blu-ray disc,[15] allowing the viewer to follow along by interacting with animated flip-books, galleries and trivia while watching the movie.[12] A UK version of Diamond Edition was released on February 7, 2011.[16]
Country | Premiere |
---|---|
Brazil | August 14, 1942 |
United States | August 21, 1942 |
Argentina | December 9, 1942 |
Mexico | February 4, 1943 |
Ireland | February 19, 1943 |
Australia | April 15, 1943 |
Trinidad and Tobago | June 4, 1943 |
Sweden | October 4, 1943 |
Venezuela | January 16, 1944 |
Portugal | January 17, 1944 |
Switzerland | March 17, 1944 (German speaking region) |
Luxembourg | March 17, 1944 |
Guatemala | September 21, 1944 |
Honduras | October 12, 1944 |
Turkey | November 16, 1944 |
Canada | July 24, 1945 |
Czechoslovakia | October 15, 1945 |
Soviet Union | May 17, 1946 |
Norway | December 26, 1946 |
Denmark | March 3, 1947 |
Hong Kong | March 13, 1947 |
Finland | August 29, 1947 |
Netherlands | September 18, 1947 |
Italy | February 11, 1948 |
France | April 28, 1948 |
Poland | June 14, 1948 |
Austria | June 10, 1949 |
- Argentinian inChilean Spanish | August 19, 1949 (Bambi) |
Malaysia | March 16, 1950 |
West Germany | December 19, 1950 |
Japan | May 26, 1951 |
Hungary | July 27, 1961 |
Lebanon | June 18, 1969 |
Kuwait | December 21, 1987 |
Bambi II is a story which takes place after Bambi's mother dies, but before Bambi becomes an adult. It shows the Great Prince of the Forest having trouble raising Bambi, and Bambi not being sure if his father really loves him. The movie was released direct-to-video on February 7, 2006. While the movie was a direct-to-video release in the United States and other countries, including Canada, China, Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan, it was a theatrical release in some countries, including Australia, Austria, Brazil, Dominican Republic, France, Mexico, the United Kingdom and some other European countries.[source?]
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.