The fawn is befriended by an eager, energetic rabbit named Thumper, who helps to teach him to walk and speak, a young skunk he mistakenly calls 'Flower' (who is so flattered, he keeps the name) and a female fawn named Faline. Bambi grows up very attached to his mother, with whom he spends most of his time.

PlotĪ doe gives birth to a fawn named Bambi, who will one day take over the position of Great Prince of the Forest, who guards the woodland creatures. In January 2020, it was announced that a photorealistic computer-animated remake was in development. In December 2011, the film was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being 'culturally, historically and aesthetically significant'. In June 2008, the American Film Institute presented a list of its ' 10 Top 10'-the best ten films in each of ten classic American film genres-after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. 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. 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 America. 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. 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 rabbit) and Flower (a skunk) and his childhood friend and future mate, Faline.

The film was produced by Walt Disney and directed by David Hand and a team of sequence directors. The fifth Disney animated feature film, it is based on the 1923 novel Bambi, a Life in the Woods by Austrian author and hunter Felix Salten. Bambi is a 1942 American animated drama film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

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