Disney's Bambi Title

Premiere Date:
August 13, 1942

Running Time:
70 Minutes

Rated: G

STORY LINE

The life story of a fawn named Bambi, who grows up with friends Thumper, the rabbit, and Flower, the skunk, to be the Great Prince of the Forest. But in the meantime he suffers through the death of his mother at the hand of Man, falls in love with Faline, and barely escapes a large forest fire.

CAST

CHARACTER

VOICE TALENT

Young Bambi

Bobby Stewart

Bambi

Hardie Albright
Donnie Dunagan
John Sutherland

Thumper

Peter Behn
Tim Davis

Young Flower

Stanley Alford

Flower

Sterling Holloway

Faline

Cammie King
Ann Gillis

 The Great Prince
of the Forest

Fred Shields

CREW

Based On The Book By Felix Salten

SUPERVISING DIRECTOR

David Hand

 PRODUCER

Walt Disney

WRITERS/
ADAPTATION

Don DaGradi
George Stallings
Melvin Shaw
Carl Fallberg
Chuck Couch
Ralph Wright
Perce Pearce
Larry Morey

 CINEMATOGRAPHY
(Uncredited)

Maxwell Morgan

ART DIRECTION

Tom Codrick
Robert Cormack
Lloyd Harting
David Hiberman
John Hubley
Dick Kelsey
McLaren Stewart
Al Zinnen

 ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTER

Sidney Franklin

CONCEPT ILLUSTATOR
(Uncredited)

Maurice Day

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

Marc Davis

 SEQUENCE DIRECTORS

James Algar
Sam Armstrong
Graham Heid
Bill Roberts
Paul Satterfield
Norman Wright

SUPERVISING ANIMATORS

 Ollie Johnston
Milt Kahl
Eric Larson
Frank Thomas

ANIMATORS

Preston Blair
John Bradbury
Fraser Davis
Phil Duncan
Art Elliott
Bernard Garbutt
Kenneth Hultgren
Bill Justice
Don Lusk
Joshua Meador
Ken O'Brien
Art Palmer
George Rowley
Louie Schmitt
Retta Scott

BACKGROUND ARTISTS

W. Richard Anthony
Merle Cox
Ray Huffine
Travis Johnston
Ed Levitt
Robert McIntosh
Art Riley
Stan Spohn
Joe Stahley
Tyrus Wong

SONGS

Frank Churchill
Edward H. Plumb

 CHORAL ARRANGEMENTS

Charles Henderson

 ORCHESTRATOR

Charles Wolcott
Paul J. Smith

 CONDUCTOR

Alexander Steinert

CAST OF CHARACTERS

Bambi, Thumper, Flower, Owl, Bambi's Mother, Thumper's Mother, Faline, The Great Prince of the Forest

SONGS

1. Main Title (Love is A Song)

2. Sleepy Morning in the Woods/Everybody Awake/
The Young Prince/Learning to Walk

3. Exploring/Through the Woods/Say Bird/Flower

4.Little April Shower

5. The Meadow/Bambi Sees Faline/
Bambi Gets Annoyed

6. Gallop of the stags/
The Great Prince of the forest/Man

7. Autumn/The First Snow/Fun on the Ice

8. The end of Winter/New Spring Grass/
Tragedy in the Meadow

9. Wintery Winds

10. Let's Sing a Gay Little Spring Song

11. It Could Even Happen to Flower

12. Bambi Gets Twitterpated/Stag Fight

13. Looking for romance (I Bring you a Song)

14. Man Returns

15. Fire/Reunion/Finale

16. Rain Drops (Demo Recording)

Disney's "Bambi" Home Video

Disney's "Bambi" DVD

Disney's Bambi LaserDisc

Disney's Bambi Soundtrack

 Home Video

 DVD

Disney's Platinum Collection
March 1, 2005

 LaserDisc

 Soundtrack

(Order)

FAN SITE LINKS

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SPIN-OFFS

"Bambi: A Lesson in Perseverance":
an educational film released in September 1978.

TRIVIA

World premiere in London on August 8, 1942 and
released in the United States on August 13, 1942.

Bambi is regarded as one of Walt Disney's most charming films.

Bambi received Academy Award nominations for Best Sound,
Best Song ("Love Is A Song"), and Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.

Bambi was re-released in theathers in 1946, 1956, 1963, 1969, 1977, 1982, and 1988. It was released on home video in 1989 and 1997.

GALLERY

Disney's "Bambi" DVD