Plot Summary

One morning in a small, illuminated by the spring sun, the forest clearing was born calf. On the new Prince of the forest came, and they flocked to see all the animals and birds. Fawn named Bambi. When Bambi learned to walk and talk, he got friends — rabbit Tamper and skunk Flower. And once in a meadow, where led by his mother, Bambi met a merry little DOE — of feylin. But life in the woods is dangerous and violent. For the first time Bambi ran into this when a transparent autumn forest air pierced shots from a gun — all the animals began to panic to escape, and then Bambi for the first time heard a terrible word — Man.

Did You Know?

Despite the fact that directly to see the Man in the cartoon is not, his appearance marks the ominous music. Later this method the image of the approaching danger (heavy, simple, repetitive motif) was used by Steven Spielberg in his film "Jaws" (1975).

The reason that the Grand Duke only rarely appears in the cartoon and barely speaks — the complexity in the animation of his horns. Later, when working on a sequel "Bambi 2" (2006), animator Frank Thomas (one of the main animators of "Bambi") admitted that the artist had to use a special statue of the deer for proper rendering, but even in this case, too complex scenes, the animation was unnatural.

Bambi — the second Walt Disney cartoon (the first is "Dumbo" (1941)), which takes place in our days.

In honor of Bambi and Thumper named two small planet — numbers 15845 and 16626, respectively.

The American film Institute (American Film Institute, AFI) have recognized the Man one of the fifty greatest villains of cinema.

In some early sketches of Thumper called Bobo.

Two negative female character in the film about James bond "Diamonds are forever" (1971) is named after Bambi and Thumper.

The film is based on the book by Austrian writer and journalist Felix Salten's "Bambi."

"Bambi" was the most favorite Walt Disney cartoon.

According to the survey results 2006 Los Angeles Business, "Bambi" was voted the best disney cartoons, scoring 21 % of the vote (for comparison, "Snow white and the seven dwarfs" received 20% of votes).

In 2011, the film entered the national film register of the United States of America.

In 1933, the rights to create a movie based on the book by Felix Salten was purchased by Sidney Franklin, one of the employees of the Studio MGM. However, after a while it became obvious that this film cannot be removed by means of traditional cinema, and in 1935, Walt disney was asked to create a full-length animated picture.

In the book-the source, in addition to Faline, Bambi has another friend-deer — Gobo (brother of Faline). Electron ± have also had a friend Carus. In addition, after my mom died in Bambi looked out DOE Nettle and madder. Mother Faline was the name of Ina (Ena, in some translations, Enna).