Bambi (1942)

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Director:

David Hand

Writers:

Felix Salten (story)
Perce Pearce (story)
(more)

Release Date:

21 August 1942 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Drama | Family

Tagline:

Walt Disney's multiplane technicolor feature

Plot:

Animated film about a young deer, Bambi, growing up in the wild after his mother is shot by hunters.

Plot Keywords:

Bambi | Deer | Forest | Hunter | Growing Up

Awards:

Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Hardie Albright	...	Adolescent Bambi (voice) (uncredited)
Stan Alexander	...	Young Flower (voice) (uncredited)
Bobette Audrey	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Peter Behn	...	Young Thumper (voice) (uncredited)
Thelma Boardman	...	Mrs. Quail / Pheasant (voice) (uncredited)
Janet Chapman	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Jeanne Christy	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Dolyn Bramston Cook	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Marion Darlington	...	Bird Sounds (voice) (uncredited)
Tim Davis	...	Adult Thumper / Adolescent Flower (voice) (uncredited)
Donnie Dunagan	...	Young Bambi (voice) (uncredited)
Sam Edwards	...	Adult Thumper (voice) (uncredited)
Ann Gillis	...	Adult Faline (voice) (uncredited)
Otis Harlan	...	Mr. Mole (voice) (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Eddie Holden	...	Chipmunk (voice) (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Sterling Holloway	...	Adult Flower (voice) (uncredited)
Jack Horner	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Thelma Hubbard	...	Girl Bunny / Quail Mother / Female Pheasant (voice) (uncredited)
Cammie King	...	Young Faline (voice) (uncredited)
Mary Lansing	...	Aunt Ena / Mrs. Possum (voice) (uncredited)
Margaret Lee	...	Thumper's Mother (voice) (uncredited)
Clarence Nash	...	Bullfrog (voice) (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Babs Nelson	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Sandra Lee Richards	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Francesca Santoro	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Fred Shields	...	Great Prince Of The Forest (voice) (uncredited)
Bobby Stewart	...	Baby Bambi (voice) (uncredited)
John Sutherland	...	Adult Bambi (voice) (uncredited)
Paula Winslowe	...	Bambi's Mother / Pheasant (voice) (uncredited)
Elouise Wohlwend	...	Additional Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Will Wright	...	Friend Owl (voice) (uncredited)

Directed by
David Hand		(supervising) (as David D. Hand)

Writing credits
Felix Salten		(story)
Perce Pearce		(story direction)
Larry Morey		(story adaptation)
Vernon Stallings		(story development) (as George Stallings) &
Melvin Shaw		(story development) &
Carl Fallberg		(story development) &
Chuck Couch		(story development) &
Ralph Wright		(story development)

Produced by
Walt Disney	....	producer (uncredited)

Original Music by
Edward H. Plumb		(as Edward Plumb)

Art Direction by
Tom Codrick		(as Thomas H. Codrick)
Robert Cormack		(as Robert C. Cormack)
Lloyd Harting
David Hilberman
John Hubley
Dick Kelsey
McLaren Stewart
Al Zinnen

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jack Atwood	....	assistant director (uncredited)
Mike Holoboff	....	assistant director (uncredited)
Bob Ogle	....	assistant director (uncredited)

Art Department
Jules Engel	....	atmosphere sketches (uncredited)
Lew Keller	....	atmosphere sketches (uncredited)
Harold Miles	....	atmosphere sketches (uncredited)
Sylvia Moberly-Holland	....	atmosphere sketches (uncredited)
Zack Schwartz	....	atmosphere sketches (uncredited)
Glenn Scott	....	atmosphere sketches (uncredited)
Gustaf Tenggren	....	atmosphere sketches (uncredited)

Sound Department
Keith Rogers	....	sound re-recording mixer (restorated version)
C.O. Slyfield	....	sound director (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Patrick L. Almanza	....	restoration artist (2005 restoration) (as Patrick Almanza)
Casey Basichis	....	restoration artist (2005 restoration)
Jeff Schiffman	....	restoration artist (2005 restoration)
Rachel Clement	....	restoration artist (2005 restoration) (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Max Morgan	....	camera operator (uncredited)

Animation Department
Dick Anthony	....	background artist (as W. Richard Anthony)
Preston Blair	....	animator
Jack Bradbury	....	animator (as John Bradbury)
Merle Cox	....	background artist (as Merle T. Cox)
Marc Davis	....	animator (as Fraser Davis)
Phil Duncan	....	animator
Art Elliott	....	animator
Bernard Garbutt	....	animator
Ray Huffine	....	background artist
Ken Hultgren	....	animator (as Kenneth Hultgren)
Travis Johnson	....	background artist
Ollie Johnston	....	supervising animator: "Thumper" (as Oliver M. Johnston Jr.)
Bill Justice	....	animator
Milt Kahl	....	supervising animator (as Milton Kahl)
Eric Larson	....	supervising animator
Ed Levitt	....	background artist
Don Lusk	....	animator
Bob McIntosh	....	background artist (as Robert McIntosh)
Joshua Meador	....	animator
Ken O'Brien	....	animator (as Kenneth O'Brien)
Art Palmer	....	animator
Art Riley	....	background artist
George Rowley	....	animator
Louie Schmitt	....	animator (as Louis Schmitt)
Retta Scott	....	animator
Stan Spohn	....	background artist
Joe Stahley	....	background artist
Frank Thomas	....	supervising animator: "Thumper" (as Franklin Thomas)
Tyrus Wong	....	background artist
Edwin Aardal	....	animator (uncredited)
Jerome Brown	....	animator (uncredited)
Paul Busch	....	animator (uncredited)
Lars Calonius	....	animator (uncredited)
Brad Case	....	animator (uncredited)
Ugo D'Orsi	....	animator (uncredited)
Russ Dyson	....	animator (uncredited)
James Escalante	....	animator (uncredited)
Art Fitzpatrick	....	animator (uncredited)
Joseph Gayek	....	animator (uncredited)
Blaine Gibson	....	assistant animator (uncredited)
George Goepper	....	animator (uncredited)
Franklin Grundeen	....	animator (uncredited)
Harry Hamsel	....	animator (uncredited)
Joseph Harbaugh	....	animator (uncredited)
M. James	....	animator (uncredited)
Lynn Karp	....	animator (uncredited)
Jack Kinney	....	animator: opening sequence (uncredited)
Paul B. Kossoff	....	animator (uncredited)
Dan MacManus	....	animator (uncredited)
Fred Madison	....	animator (uncredited)
Murray McClellan	....	animator (uncredited)
John McManus	....	animator (uncredited)
Bill Melendez	....	assistant animator (uncredited)
James Moore	....	animator (uncredited)
Curt Perkins	....	layout artist (uncredited)
John Reed	....	animator (uncredited)
Glenn Scott	....	layout artist (uncredited)
Hazel Sewell	....	animator (uncredited)
Sandy Strother	....	animator (uncredited)
Don Tobin	....	animator (uncredited)
Harvey Toombs	....	animator (uncredited)
Don Towsley	....	animator (uncredited)
Noel Tucker	....	animator (uncredited)
Karl Van Leuven	....	animator (uncredited)
Jim Will	....	animator (uncredited)
Vernon G. Witt	....	animator (uncredited)
Cornett Wood	....	animator (uncredited)
Cy Young	....	animator (uncredited)
Robert W. Youngquist	....	animator (uncredited)

Music Department
Charles Henderson	....	music arranger: choral arrangements
Paul J. Smith	....	orchestrator
Alexander Steinert	....	conductor
Charles Wolcott	....	orchestrator

Other crew
James Algar	....	sequence director
Samuel Armstrong	....	sequence director (as Sam Armstrong)
Chuck Couch	....	story developer
Walt Disney	....	presenter
Carl Fallberg	....	story developer
Charles Garcia	....	digital restoration: Pixel Magic (1997 version)
Graham Heid	....	sequence director
Bill Roberts	....	sequence director
Paul Satterfield	....	sequence director
Melvin Shaw	....	story developer
Vernon Stallings	....	story developer
Norman Wright	....	sequence director
Ralph Wright	....	story developer
Donna Atwood	....	ice skating model: "Thumper" (uncredited)
Maurice Day	....	researcher (uncredited)
Don Graham	....	consultant: animal anatomy and motion (uncredited)
Rico Lebrun	....	consultant: animal anatomy and motion (uncredited)
Jane Randolph	....	ice skating model (uncredited)
Robert Winkler	....	voice-over (uncredited)
Dee Worth	....	secretary (uncredited)
Vi Zimmerman	....	secretary (uncredited)

Thanks
Sidney Franklin	....	appreciation: inspiring collaboration (as Sidney A. Franklin)

Production Companies

• Walt Disney Productions

Distributors

• RKO Radio Pictures (1942) (USA) (theatrical)
• RKO Radio Pictures (1947) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
• Buena Vista Film Distribution Company (1957) (USA) (theatrical) (re-releases from 1957 onward)
• American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (2005) (USA) (TV) (broadcast premiere)
• Abril Vídeo (Brazil) (VHS)
• Gativideo (199?) (Argentina) (video)
• Buena Vista Pictures (1966) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
• Daiei Motion Picture Company (1951) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (2005) (Brazil) (DVD)
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (2005) (Brazil) (VHS)

Also Known As:

Walt Disney's Bambi (USA) (poster title)

Runtime:

70 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Brazil:Livre | Portugal:M/4 | Australia:G | South Korea:All | Philippines:G | Argentina:Atp | Canada:G | Chile:TE | Finland:S | Germany:o.Al. | Peru:PT | Sweden:Btl | UK:U | USA:Approved (PCA #5013) (original rating) | USA:G (re-rating) (1974) | Greece:K | Iceland:L

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Trivia:

Animation from this film has been reused more often than animation from any other Disney film. Usually it is used as incidental animation of birds, leaves and the like. Only a few of the major characters have been reused. Bambi's mother, for example, appears in the very first shot of Beauty and the Beast (1991), and is the quarry of both Kay in The Sword in the Stone (1963) and Shere Khan in The Jungle Book (1967). Bambi and his mother fully appear then in The Rescuers (1977).

Goofs:

Continuity: During the scene when Bambi first meets Faline, she licks him on the forehead, but when he wipes away the kiss, he is wiping his left cheek.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Thumper: Wake up, wake up!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Disney's Animation Magic: Treasure Planet (2003) (V)

Soundtrack:

Twitterpated

Excellent Disney classic

This is one awesome animated movie. If there are people out there who don't love this movie, they either have hearts of stone or bricks for brains. This is a simple, charming and heartwarming tale of innocence and the joys of youth. It doesn't need slam bang violent action or hokey bad humor. This movie, instead, flows naturally. The songs are also great, not the big, overblown affairs that modern Disney likes to do nowadays. They are charming, well sung and well scored, and more than one is about love. The movie itself seems to glow with a light so pure, it's almost angelic. The characters are also great. Bambi, Thumper, and Flower are adorable and well developed characters. The things they do and say will melt your heart. And not a stupid sidekick in sight. While this movie might not be as popular or as grand as Snow White or Pinocchio, grandness isn't usually such a good thing. Both of those movies don't have quite Bambi's charm or innocence, and both stop just short of being rather sadistic, Snow White especially. This is my second favorite animated movie, with only The Fox and the Hound topping it in my heart. I recommend Bambi to any Disney lover. They don't make them like this anymore. This is a perfect family movie. Modern Disney can never touch this. 10/10