Bambi

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This article is about the 1942 Disney animated film. For the original novel, see
Bambi, a Life in the Woods. For other uses, see Bambi (disambiguation).
Bambi
Walt Disney's Bambi poster.jpg
Original theatrical release poster
Directed by 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
Based on

Bambi, a Life in the Woods

by Felix Salten
Starring

see below

Music by

Frank Churchill

Edward H. Plumb
Production
company
Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by

RKO Radio Pictures

Release dates
August 9, 1942 (World Premiere-London)
August 13, 1942 (Premiere-New York City)
August 21, 1942 (U.S.)[1]
Running time
70 minutes
Country

United States

Language

English

Budget

$858,000[2]

Box office

$267.4 million[3]

Bambi is a 1942 American animated drama film directed by David Hand

(supervising a team of sequence directors), produced by Walt Disney and based on
the book Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Austrian author Felix Salten. The film was
released by RKO Radio Pictures on August 13, 1942, and is the fifth film in the Walt
Disney Animated Classics series.

The main characters are Bambi, a white-tailed deer, his parents (the Great Prince of
the forest and his unnamed mother), his friends Thumper (a pink-nosed rabbit), and
Flower (a skunk), and his childhood friend and future mate, Faline. For the movie,
Disney took the liberty of changing Bambi's species into a white-tailed deer from his
original species of roe deer, since roe deer are not native to North America, and the
white-tailed deer is more widespread in the United States. The film received three
Academy Award nominations: 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 presented a list of its "10 Top 10"the
best ten films in each of ten classic American film genresafter polling over 1,500
people from the creative community. Bambi placed third in animation.[5] In

December 2011, the film was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of
Congress.