Bambi (film)


 * This article is about the 1942 Walt Disney film. For the title character, see Bambi (character). For title card, see Bambi (logo). For sequel, see Bambi II.

Bambi is the fifth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, which was originally released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on August 13, 1942 and produced by Walt Disney. The film was based on the 1923 book Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Austrian author Felix Salten. In the book, the main characters are Bambi, the young roe deer prince of the forest, his parents - the Great Prince of the forest and his unnamed mate - and his friends Thumper (a rabbit), Flower (a skunk), and his childhood friend and future mate, Faline (a deer). For the movie, Disney took the liberty of changing Bambi's species into a white-tailed deer for visual emphasis against the colored backgrounds.