Thumper comments that he is sort of unstable, to which his mother scolds him. He then attempts to get up, but due to him being very young, he can hardly keep his balance. At first, he is frightened by Friend Owl, who gives a friendly hoot but then manages to make a smile. He wakes up and takes a good, long look at all the animals surrounding him. She then urges her new fawn to wake up and see everybody.

Upon reaching the area, the animals come across the mother doe and her newborn fawn lying by her side. Friend Owl flies off to the area where the young prince is born, along with many other animals. Thumper and his sisters tell him that the new prince is born. Thumper (a young rabbit) wakes up an old owl named ' Friend Owl', who asks what has happened. Suddenly, a blue bird spreads the news about something. The film begins with a long camera shot through the forest at dawn, and all the animals waking up. 8 Smokey Bear Wildfire Prevention and Controversy.7.1 Anniversary Signature Edition Videos.In December 2011, the film was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress for being 'culturally, historically and aesthetically significant'.Ī direct-to-video midquel, titled Bambi II, was released in 2006. After polling over 1,500 people from the creative community, the film placed third in animation. 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. The film was a major catalyst in what people now see as 'environmental films', as well as Walt Disney's favorite of his animated films. The film received three Academy Award nominations for Best Sound, Best Song for ' Love is a Song' and Original Music Score. For the film, Disney took the liberty of changing Bambi's species into a white-tailed deer from his original species of roe deer, since roe deer do not inhabit the United States, and the white-tailed deer is more familiar to Americans. The plot centers around Bambi learning to grow up in the forest after his mother is shot by Man. The main characters are Bambi, his parents ( the Great Prince of the Forest and his unnamed mother), his friends, Thumper and Flower, his childhood friend, Faline, and the villain of the story, Man. It is the last Disney animated film to be in a single-narrative format until nearly eight years later with Cinderella due to the decrease of resources in World War II causing the studio to make 'package features' to stay the studio afloat for financial reasons. The fifth film in the Disney Animated Canon, it was released by RKO Radio Pictures on August 21, 1942, during World War II.

Source Bambi is a 1942 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and based on the book Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Austrian author Felix Salten.

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