Bambi could be seen as Disney’s take on a nature documentary, six years before they took on actual nature documentaries with their True-Life Adventures series. Snow White was a fantasy, while Pinocchio leant towards horror and Fantasia was arthouse. After the simplicity of Dumbo, this film marked a return to form for Disney, with lots of expensive multiplane camera shots and fancy artwork, although sadly this wasn’t enough for the film to make a profit on its initial release and, like its brethren before it, it lost money (largely because of the war). This was Walt’s baby he nurtured it for a good five years before it finally came to fruition. We come at last to the end of Disney’s “Golden Age” with this, their fifth feature, Bambi.

The first African-American seamen are taken into the US NavyĪnne Frank makes her first diary entry on her 13th birthdayīirths of Stephen Hawking, Muhammad Ali, Aretha Franklin, Barbara Streisand, Paul McCartney, Harrison Ford and Jimi Hendrix The Battle of the Coral Sea occurs the two opposing fleets never sighted one another Sobibór also opens – at least 250,000 more Jews died there PlumbĪccolades – 5 wins and 6 nominations, including 3 Oscar nominationsįailure of the German attempt to take Moscow, Operation Typhoonīełżec extermination camp opens up to 500,000 Jews are believed to have been killed here

Sources of Inspiration – Bambi, a Life in the Woods, an Austrian novel by Felix Salten, 1923Īugust 8 th / 9 th, 1942 in London, UK (world premiere)Īugust 13 th, 1942 in New York City, USA (US premiere)ĭirectors – David Hand (supervising), James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield and Norman WrightĬomposers – Frank Churchill and Edward H. Paula Winslowe – Bambi’s mother and a pheasantĪdditional voices: Bobette Audrey, Janet Chapman, Jeanne Christy, Dolyn Bramston Cook, Eddie Holden, Jack Horner, Babs Nelson, Sandra Lee Richards, Francesca Santoro and Elouise Wohlwend Mole (not Otis Harlan, as I originally believed)įred Shields – Great Prince of the Forest (Bambi’s dad) Mary Lansing – Aunt Ena (Faline’s mum) and Mrs. Sterling Holloway – Adult Flower (I never realised Holloway was in this!)Ĭammie King Conlon – Young Faline (She was in Gone With the Wind, as the Butler’s daughter) Tim Davis – Adult Thumper and Adolescent Flower

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Bambi by Bob Grant