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• Continuity: One baby raccoon disappears momentarily as it comes out of the water after the fire, instantaneously appearing elsewhere. This has been corrected on the 2005 DVD release.
  
  
• Continuity: When the animals gather around to see new-born Bambi, the spots on Bambi's coat disappear for a moment.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bambi sees the possums hanging upside down from a tree, they are oriented such that the shortest is hanging on the left and the longest is on the right. Bambi rotates his head to look at them. Doing this, the longest should now be on the "left". But in the film, the longest is still on the right.
  
  

• Continuity: When the dogs are hunting Faline through the forest, a brown dog is in front. In the close-up, the dog is right behind Faline, trying to bite her, but it is now turned grey. In the next shot, the dog is turned brown again.
  
  
• Continuity: Thumper's sisters change colors from scene to scene.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bambi runs to warn Faline of the hunters, a flock of crows flies from the camp in the background. As the scene cross-dissolves to the next scene, the leading crows disappear.
  
  
• Continuity: In the meadow scene Faline's eyes change from blue to brown, then back to blue in later scenes.
  
  
• Continuity: When Thumper is laughing at Bambi just after we meet Flower, he rolls on his back and his normally white tail is brown. When he rolls back onto his belly his tail is white again. This appears to have been corrected for the 2005 DVD release.
  
  
• Continuity: During the forest fire sequence the squirrel with the chipmunk as a sleeping partner turns from a grey squirrel into a red squirrel! He returns to grey for the end of the film.
  
  
• Continuity: Also during the fire sequence Faline awakes with brown eyes, instead of her usual blue, they remain brown all through the dogs/fire sequence and return to blue when she is at the thicket with her new babies.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bambi looks in the pond while in the meadow and sees Faline's reflection, he repeatedly looks at both his and her reflections. After Faline giggles, Bambi stops in awe and blinks twice. On the second blink, the reflection's eyes do not blink with Bambi's eyes.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bambi's mother says, "Bambi. My little Bambi," her eyes lose her pupils for a second.
  
  
• Continuity: When we first meet Faline as a fawn, her pond reflection stands up as the camera moves back, while she stays still.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bambi's mother tells Thumper what she'll name Bambi, Bambi's spots have disappeared.
  
  
• Continuity: Before Bambi tries to talk, his eyes are mistakenly drawn to look as if they have split for a short second while the little songbirds fly around his head.
  
  
• Continuity: Before Bambi meets Thumper's family in the meadow, Bambi's mother's head is drawn like a fawn's head.
  
  
• Continuity: Aunt Ena misses a hoof when Bambi is chasing Faline.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bambi walks backwards as an attempt to get away from Faline, he's missing two hooves.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Factual errors: Skunks, although not particularly active in winter, do not hibernate.
  
  
• Factual errors: Bambi is shown with spots during the winter. Fawns lose their spots by fall.
  
  
• Factual errors: Bambi has a relationship with his father. Bucks never see their fawns.
  
  

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