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Bambi

Bambi is a 1942 American animated coming-of-age drama film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures, loosely based on Felix Salten's 1923 novel Bambi, a Life in the Woods. It was directed by David D. Hand, and a team of six sequence directors.

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Bambi is a 1942 animated film by Walt Disney that follows a young deer's journey from birth to adulthood, adapted from a 1923 novel by Felix Salten. The film is considered a significant work in animation history, representing Disney's ambitious approach to blending drama with animated storytelling.

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Film.name: Bambi
Film.image: Walt Disney's Bambi poster.jpg
Film.caption: Theatrical release poster
Film.director: Supervising DirectorDavid D. Hand Sequence Director
Film.story: Perce PearceLarry MoreyGeorge StallingsMelvin ShawCarl FallbergChuck CouchRalph Wright
Film.producer: Walt Disney
Film.music: Frank ChurchillEdward Plumb
Film.studio: Walt Disney Productions
Film.distributor: RKO Radio Pictures
Film.runtime: 70 minutes
Film.country: United States
Film.language: English

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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 cottontail rabbit) and Flower (a skunk); and his childhood friend and future mate, Faline. In the original book, Bambi was a roe deer, a species native to Europe, but Disney decided to base the character on a mule deer from Arrowhead, California. Illustrator Maurice "Jake" Day convinced Disney that the mule deer had large "mule-like" ears and were more common to western North America, but that the white-tail deer was more recognized throughout 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.