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:''This article is about the [[1942]] [[Walt Disney]] film. For other uses, see [[Bambi (disambiguation)]].
{{Infobox_Film
| name = Bambi
| image = theatrical2.jpg |
| director = [[David D. Hand]]
| writer = [[Felix Salten]] (novel)<br />[[Larry Morey]] (story adaptation)<br />[[Perce Pearce]] (story direction)<br/>[[Gustaf Tenggren]] (illustration)
| starring = [[Bobby Stewart]]<br />[[Donnie Dunagan]]<br />[[Hardie Albright]]<br />[[John Sutherland]]<br />[[Paula Winslowe]]<br />[[Peter Behn]]<br />[[Tim Davis]]<br />[[Sam Edwards]]<br />[[Will Wright (actor)|Will Wright]]<br />[[Cammie King]]<br />[[Ann Gillis]]<br />[[Fred Shields]]<br />[[Stan Alexander]]<br />[[Sterling Holloway]]
| producer = [[Walt Disney]]
| distributor = [[Rated RKO]] Radio Pictures
| released = [[August 13]], [[1942]]
| runtime = 70 min.
| language = English
| budget = (unknown)
| amg_id = 1:3850
| imdb_id = 0034492
| followed_by = ''[[Bambi II]]'' (2006)
}}
'''''Bambi''''' is a 1942 [[animated feature]] produced by [[Walt Disney ]] and originally released to theatres by [[RKO Radio Pictures]] on [[August 13]], [[1942]]. The fifth [[animated feature]] in the [[Disney animated features canon]], the film is based on the [[1923]] book ''[[Bambi, A Life in the Woods]]'' by [[Austria]]n author [[Felix Salten]]. The main characters are [[Bambi (character)|Bambi]], the young [[prince]] of the forest, his parents (the Great Prince of the forest and his unnamed mother), and his friends [[Thumper (Bambi)|Thumper]] (a white nosed [[rabbit]]), [[Flower (Bambi)|Flower]] (a [[skunk]]), and his childhood friend and future mate, [[Faline]] (also a white-tailed [[deer]]). For the movie, Disney took the liberty of changing Bambi's species into a [[White-tailed deer]] to visually emphasize him against the colored backgrounds, since he is a [[Roe Deer]] in the book.
==Plot==

The story of the natural life cycle—birth, death and re-birth—is the true plot of the film. It is a case study in the very basics of life: the "doe-eyed" innocence of [[childhood]]; parental love; discovering and learning about the world around us (both its beauty and its danger); loss and [[grief]]; developing friendships; loyalty; balancing risk and need; growing toward independence; being at one and in harmony with nature; and [[romantic love]].

Like the majority of Walt Disney's feature-length animated narratives, ''Bambi'' embraces both joy and tragedy. Bambi is a movie that alternates frequently between these two extremes, with the one typically being used to set up the other. For instance, the joy of Bambi's first walk through the forest is interrupted by a frightening [[thunderstorm]]. His first visit to the meadow is joyful until it is interrupted by hunters who fire upon Bambi and his mother.

The pivotal scene in the movie involves Bambi's mother and her death at the hands of off-screen hunters. In the sequence, the audience sees the joy/tragedy motif used again. The scene is set in late winter, and Bambi and his mother struggle to find food as mournful music plays. Joy is felt as they discover a patch of new grass, signaling the arrival of Spring, and joyful music is heard on the soundtrack. As they feast, the mood changes again, and we hear Man approach off-screen, represented only by his theme music (a low, three-note motif). Bambi's mother suddenly catches Man's scent, and orders her child to run, but she is too late. As they flee across the snow field, shots ring out. The camera stays with young Bambi as he runs through the forest, finally stopping to catch his breath. He notices at this time (as does the audience) that his mother is nowhere to be seen.

In a series of heartbreaking dissolves, Bambi wanders desperately through the forest calling for her, but no answer comes. Bambi is startled by the sudden appearance of his father, the Great Prince, who informs him that his mother cannot be with him any more. Bambi casts his head to the ground, and when he lifts it again, the audiences see that he is crying, realizing what has happened. Bambi follows his father into the forest, taking one last look back as he leaves his childhood and [[innocence]] behind.

The movie then skips (very abruptly) forward in time to the spring, when Bambi, Thumper, Flower, and Faline are all seen having grown up to adulthood. They become "twitterpated" over potential mates. Bambi and Faline become a couple, however their happiness is threatened by Ronno, a buck who is himself after Faline. He fights with Bambi and at first seems to have the upper hand until Bambi somehow manages to wound Ronno in his shoulder and throw him from the clifftop on which they were fighting. Ronno falls from the cliff and into the river, from which he is not seen again.

Man enters the forest again, and is responsible for a forest fire that sends all the life in the forest running for refuge in a river. Bambi and his father barely escape.

The film ends with the birth of Bambi and Faline's two [[fawn]]s, with Bambi standing proudly at the top of the mountain, looking down at them proudly as his father did at his own birth.

The death of Bambi's mother is one of the most famous moments in American film history, a moment so upsetting to certain children that they had to be carried sobbing out of the theater during ''Bambi''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> numerous theatrical presentations. For this reason, and because of the horror and violence of the climactic hunting/forest fire sequence, many critics question the suitability of ''Bambi'' as a film appropriate for very young audiences. <ref> Kevin Jackson 'Tears of a fawn', The Independent, Feb. 6,2005 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20050206/ai_n9499721 </ref> When one takes ''Bambi'' together with the other Disney feature films created during the same period of the early 40's, such as the dark ''[[Pinocchio (1940 film)|Pinocchio]]'', the powerful ''[[Fantasia (film)|Fantasia]]'', and the serious ''[[Victory Through Air Power]]'', one can see an attempt by Walt Disney to produce films pushing against the stereotype of Disney animation being "children's films". Nonetheless, it was more than forty years before Disney featured the death of a parent in the form of Tod's mom in the Fox and the Hound, and more than fifty years before they featured the on-screen death of a main character who wasn't a villain (Mufasa in The Lion King).

== Pre-production ==

Walt Disney early in the preparation for this animated film decided to go to enormous lengths to achieve realistic detail. The artists heard lectures from animal experts, and visited the [[Los Angeles Zoo]] <ref> Walt Disney Collection: Walt's Masterworks - Bambi http://disney.go.com/disneyatoz/familymuseum/collection/masterworks/bambi/index.html </ref>. A pair of fawns [of course named Bambi and Faline] were shipped from the [[Baxter State Park]] in [[Maine]] to the studio so that the artists could see first-hand the movement of these animals. The source of these fawns, from the Eastern United States, was the impetus for the transformation of Felix Salten's [[roe deer]] to [[white-tailed deer]] <ref>''The Trouble with Bambi: Walt Disney's Bambi and the American Vision of Nature'' by Ralph H. Lutts: From 'Forest and Conservation History' 36 (October 1992)</ref>. The background of the film was also the Eastern woodlands - one of the earliest and best known artists for the Disney studio, [[Maurice "Jake" Day]] spent several weeks in the Maine woods, sketching and photographing deer, fawns, and the surrounding wilderness areas <ref>Maurice E. Day, Animator, 90; Drew Deer for Movie 'Bambi': Obituary in the New York Times, published May 19, 1983) </ref>.

==History==
[[Image:bambivhscover.jpg|right|thumb|200px|1989 VHS cover of ''Bambi''.]]
[[Image:bambi97.jpg|left|thumb|200px|1997 VHS cover of ''Bambi''.]]
===Release dates===
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====United States====
*[[August 13]], [[1942]] ([[New York City, New York]] release)
*[[August 21]], [[1942]] (USA release)
*[[December 25]], [[1947]]
*[[July 3]], [[1957]]
*[[March 25]], [[1966]]
*[[June 20]], [[1975]]
*[[June 4]], [[1982]]
*[[July 15]], [[1988]]

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====International====
*'''[[U.K.]]''': [[August 8]], [[1942]]
*'''[[Brazil]]''': [[August 14]], [[1942]]
*'''[[Argentina]]''': [[December 9]], [[1942]]
*'''[[Mexico]]''': [[February 4]], [[1943]]
*'''[[Australia]]''': [[April 15]], [[1943]]
*'''[[Sweden]]''': [[October 4]], [[1943]]
*'''[[Norway]]''': [[December 26]], [[1946]]
*'''[[Denmark]]''': [[March 3]], [[1947]]
*'''[[Hong Kong]]''': [[March 13]], [[1947]]
*'''[[France]]''': [[July 15]], [[1947]]
*'''[[Finland]]''': [[August 29]], [[1947]]
*'''[[Netherlands]]''': [[September 18]], [[1947]]
*'''[[Belgium]]''': [[September 18]], [[1947]]
*'''[[Italy]]''': [[February 11]], [[1948]]
*'''[[Poland]]''': [[June 14]], [[1948]]
*'''[[Austria]]''': [[June 10]], [[1949]]
*'''[[Philippines]]''': [[June 24]], [[1950]]
*'''[[Spain]]''': [[September 11]], [[1950]]
*'''[[West Germany]]''': [[December 19]], [[1950]]
*'''[[Japan]]''': [[May 18]], [[1951]]
*'''[[Lebanon]]''': [[June 18]], [[1969]]
*'''[[Kuwait]]''': [[December 21]], [[1987]]
|}

===Re-release schedule and home video===
Bambi was released in theaters in 1942, during [[World War II]] and was Disney's fifth full length animated film. It was an advance over the previous movies in sophistication of the animation, due to the experience gained in character animation at the Disney studio. The famous art direction of Bambi, which suggests emotion and the feeling of a forest rather than depicting a real forest, was due to the influence of [[Tyrus Wong]], a former painter who provided eastern and painterly influence to the backgrounds. ''Bambi'' was re-released to theaters on 1947, 1957, 1966, 1975, 1982, and 1988. It was released on [[VHS]] video in 1989 ([[Black Diamond series|The Classics]] version), 1997 (Masterpiece Collection version) and remastered and restored for the [[March 1]], [[2005]] [[Platinum Edition]] DVD.[http://dvd.monstersandcritics.com/features/article_4717.php/How_They_Restored_Bambi] The Platinum Edition DVD went on [[moratorium (entertainment)|moratorium]] on [[January 31]], [[2007]]. [http://dvd.ign.com/articles/736/736573p1.html] The Masterpiece collection version was the first Disney video to be [[THX]] certified.

==Recycled animation from ''Bambi'' in other films==
Animation from ''Bambi'' has been reused in several other Disney films, especially footage of birds, leaves and generic woodland. For example, one scene in ''[[The Fox and the Hound (film)|The Fox and the Hound]]'' reused footage of the animals running from the rain in ''Bambi'''s "Little April Shower" sequence. The most reused footage from ''Bambi'' are the few seconds of Bambi's mother looking up from eating grass just before she is killed by the hunter. This footage has been used in hunting scenes in ''[[The Sword in the Stone (film)|The Sword in the Stone]]'' and ''[[The Jungle Book (1967 film)|The Jungle Book]]''. It is also featured in ''[[The Rescuers]]'' during the song "Someone's Waiting For You" and in the opening scene of ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]''. Even a latter-day [[Donald Duck]] short featured Bambi and his mother. They are drinking from a stream and then a bunch of garbage floats past them in the stream and Bambi's mother says to him calmly, "Man is in the forest. Let's dig out." They then leave.

== Errors in ''Bambi'''s Animation ==
Several errors occur in the animation for the original film, from color to appearance to the way the characters move around. The platinum edition of ''Bambi'' [[DVD]] was released with all of these errors fixed. 1 example of animation that was fixed was the color of Mrs. Rabbit's fur changing 3 times during the film, ranging from grey to peach.

The 2nd error was during Bambi's walk through the forest. We start out with 5 rabbits walking with Bambi, including Thumper. Thumper's sisters change color from peach to brown, and sometimes there are 2 peach rabbits, or 3 brown ones. The number of Thumper's sisters ranges from 4 to 6 during this sequence. During the "Say Bird" part of the film, Bambi goes cross-eyed as he looks at the birds hovering above him.

The 3rd error occurs when Bambi and his mother are going to the meadow. After Bambi asks a question, we're taken to a shot with Bambi's mother emerging from a bush. We see her flash onto the screen after she has come out of the bush. The 4th also occurs on the meadow. When Faline and her mother are running away from Man,the other deer in the shot change colors.

The 5th error occurs when Bambi and the Great Prince are looking down on Man's campfires. We see a shot of crows following the sequence and as the crows fly away, the same frame is repeated. As we switch to Faline, her eyes change color from blue to red.

The 6th error occurs when all of the creatures are climbing out of the pond to escape the fire. In it, we see a mother raccoon licking its baby, but in the next frame, it moves over 10 CM. The 7th error occurs during the opening credits. In this scene, each frame has a black boarder around them,like on a computer screen.This was fixed in the 55th anniversery along with the final error.The last error occurs when the Great Prince is "feeling the forrest." In that shot, for about 10 secounds you can see a few lines wriggling under his feet.

there is also another error in the scene in 'Bambi' where it is snowing heavily and he has just lost his mother. in this scene, after the great prince says 'come, my son' and they are both walking away, you can see the great princes mouth move just a little bit, even though he isnt saying anything. this is because the original script for this scene had more dialog, but was later changed.

==Smokey the Bear Wildfire Prevention PSA==
In late [[2006]], the [[Ad Council]] in partnership with the [[United States Forest Service]] started a series of [[Public Service Announcement]] ads that feature footage from ''Bambi'' (& more often, ''[[Bambi 2]]'') for [[wildfire]] prevention. During the ads, as the ''Bambi'' footage is shown, the screen will momentarily fade into black with the text "''Don't let our forests...become once upon a time.''", and usually (but not always) ending the ads with Bambi's line "''Mother, what we gonna do today?''" followed by [[Smokey the Bear]] saying "''Only you can prevent wildfires''" as the Smokey logo is shown on the screen.

The ads presently air often throughout the day on various television networks, and the Ad Council has also put them on [[Youtube]].

==Bambi in popular culture==

*In an interview to [[Newsweek]] magazine, Steven Spielberg says that he considers ''Bambi'' the biggest crying movie of all time. "When I was a kid, I would actually get up in the middle of the night and make sure my parents were still alive."<ref> [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11077661/site/newsweek/page/8/ Interview with Steven Spielberg]</ref>
*The off-screen character of "Man" has been ranked 20th of the [[AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains|50 Greatest Screen Villains]] by the [[American Film Institute]].<ref> [http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/handv.aspx AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains]</ref>
*In 1993, the producers at Warner Bros. Animation made a parody of this element on one of their ''[[Animaniacs]]'' episodes, a [[Slappy Squirrel]] segment entitled "Bumbie's Mom." In it, Slappy and her nephew Skippy go see the movie "Bumbie" [which is a direct parody of Bambi],and Skippy cries when Bumbie's mom is killed by the hunter. Slappy winds up carring the sobbing Skippy out of the theater and arranges a visit with the doe-actress (who Slappy knew back in her acting days) to convince him that, because the movie doesn't actually show the Mother's death (otherwise, it would be rated PG), she wasn't really shot, just acting.
*In ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', Bambi makes an appearance as a Summon creature who runs around and drops items beneficial to the party.
*[[Saturday Night Live]]'s [[TV Funhouse]] segment, used ''Bambi'' as a means to lampoon Disney's usage of older properties for direct-to-video sequels in the form of ''Bambi 2002''. Of course, it contained rather absurd things such as a rapping Bambi, the [[New York Yankees]], and American tourists.
* In NBC's comedy [[Scrubs (TV series)|Scrubs]], the protagonist, [[J.D. (Scrubs)|J.D.]] ([[Zach Braff|Zach Braff]]), was given the nickname of Bambi by a female nurse, [[Carla Espinosa|Carla Espinosa]] ([[Judy Reyes|Judy Reyes]]), when he was an intern. This nickname was continually used throughout the series.
* On [[Judge Judy]], [[Judith Sheindlin|Judy]] makes a sarcastic connection between a persons' "sob" story and that of Bambi, usually by saying, "That's the saddest story I've ever heard since Bambi."
*In ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "[[Tales From the Public Domain]]", [[Marge Simpson|Marge]] edits the ending to the story of [[Joan of Arc]]. She then tears the actual ending out of the book and eats it, commenting that it's at least "easier to chew than that ''Bambi'' video."

==Soundtrack Listing==
# Main Title (Love Is A Song)
# Morning In The Woods/The Young Prince/Learning To Walk
# Exploring/Say Bird/Flower
# Little April Shower
# The Meadow/Bambi Sees Faline/Bambi Gets Annoyed
# Gallop Of The Stags/The Great Prince Of The Forest/Man
# Autumn/The First Snow/Fun On The Ice
# The End Of Winter/New Spring Grass/Tragedy In The Meadow
# Wintery Winds
# Let's Sing A Gay Little Spring Song
# It Could Even Happen To Flower
# Bambi Gets Twitterpated/Stag Fight
# Looking For Romance (I Bring You A Song)
# Man Returns
# Fire/Reunion/Finale
# Rain Drops (Demo Recording)
# Bonus Interview - Introduced By Richard Kiley: Walt Disney
# Bonus Interview - Introduced By Richard Kiley: Ollie Johnston And Frank Thomas
# Bonus Interview - Introduced By Richard Kiley: Henry Mancini

The original 1942 release included 2 additional songs (that were subsequently removed)<ref>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034492/soundtrack</ref>:
"Twitterpated"
(Based on Friend Owl's lecture on the amorous effects of spring)
Written by Helen Bliss, Robert Sour and Henry Manners

"Thumper Song"
Written by Helen Bliss, Robert Sour and Henry Manners

==Voice cast==
{| class="wikitable" width="450"
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! Actor !! Role(s)
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| Bobby Stewart || Baby Bambi
|-
| [[Donnie Dunagan]] || Young Bambi
|-
| [[Hardie Albright]] || Adolescent Bambi
|-
| John Sutherland || Adult Bambi
|-
| [[Paula Winslowe]] || Bambi's Mother and Pheasant
|-
| [[Peter Behn]] || Young [[Thumper (Bambi)|Thumper]]
|-
| Tim Davis || Adolescent [[Thumper (Bambi)|Thumper]], Adolescent Flower
|-
| [[Sam Edwards]] || Adult [[Thumper (Bambi)|Thumper]]
|-
| [[Stan Alexander]] || Young Flower
|-
| [[Sterling Holloway]] || Adult Flower
|-
| [[Will Wright (actor)|Will Wright]] || Friend Owl
|-
| [[Cammie King]] || Young Faline
|-
| [[Ann Gillis]] || Adult Faline
|-
| [[Fred Shields]] || Great Prince of the Forest
|-
| [[Thelma Boardman]] || Girl Bunny, Quail Mother and Frightened Pheasant
|-
| [[Mary Lansing]] || Aunt Ena, Mrs. Possum, Pheasant
|-
| [[Margaret Lee (actress)|Margaret Lee]] || Mrs. Rabbit
|-
| [[Otis Harlan]] || Mr. Mole
|-
| [[Marion Darlington]] || Bird calls
|-
| [[Clarence Nash]] || Bullfrog
|}

==Supervising Animators==
* [[Frank Thomas (animator)|Frank Thomas]]
* [[Milt Kahl]]
* [[Eric Larson]]
* [[Marc Davis]]
* [[Ollie Johnston]]
* [[Wolfgang Reitherman]]

==Notes==
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==See also==
* ''[[Bambi 2]]''
* ''[[Anti-hunting]]''
* ''[[Bambi, A Life in the Woods]]''

* [[List of animated feature films]]

==Nickname==
Bambi is used to refer to a person that cheers for [[São Paulo Futebol Clube]], which is a brazilian soccer team. It is actually a pejorative term, but you can use it anyway you want because they just don't care about that.

==References==

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==External links==

{{wikiquote}}
* {{imdb title|id=0034492|title=Bambi}}
* [http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/bambi/home.html Bambi Special Edition DVD Home Page]
* [http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/handv.aspx "AFI's 100 YEARS...100 Heroes & Villans"] American Film Institute, n.d., Retrieved May 11, 2006.

* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11077661/site/newsweek/page/8/ "Oscar Roundtable: Prize Fighters"] By David Ansen and Sean Smith, "Newsweek", February 6, 2006, retrieved April 29, 2006.

*Spoofed by "Cartoons Gone Bad" http://cartoons-gone-bad.smackjeeves.com/. Thamper is an Thumper spoof

* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE3DA153FF935A35750C0A96F948260 "Washington Talk: Breifing; Elks, Parks and Bambi"] By Jeff Gerth and Philip Shabecoff, "The New York Times", March 6, 1989, retrieved April 29, 2006.

*Barrier, Michael, Graham Webb, and Hames Ware. "The Moving Drawing Speaks." ''Funnyworld'' #18, Summer 1978. pp.21.

* Babbit, Burce. [http://www.doi.gov/news/archives/speeches&articles/sanfranf.htm|"Babbitt Urges California Leaders to Help 'Fight Fire With Fire.'"] US Dept. of Interior. Washington: GPO, 1998

* Stewart, Doug (Jun/Jul 2002, vol. 40 no. 4) [http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?issueID=43&articleID=515|"Fires of Life"]. National Wildlife Federation

* {{cite book|author=Webb, Graham|title=The Animated Film Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to American Shorts, Features, and Sequences, 1900-1979|publisher=McFarland and Co.|year=2001|id=ISBN 0-7864-0728-X}}

* [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2908_fire.html|"Fire Wars."] Director Kirk Wolfinger. Performers: Matt Snider, Neil Sampson, Bruce Babbit. Nova. May 7, 2002

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