Bambi
The fifth film in the Walt Disney Classics collection is the David Hand-directed Bambi. Based on a book by Austrian author Felix Salten, Bambi is a pretty good entry in Disney’s catalogue. It’s not an excellent movie, but it is a classic tale of getting along in the world and it sets up a lot of other Disney flicks with its use of animals and natural settings. Human characters, in fact, are nowhere to be seen, but their impact is most assuredly felt by the animals of Bambi.
Bambi took a lot out of the Walt Disney Company. The animators worked hard at getting a realistic feel to the talking animal picture and production on the movie was slow. According to Wikipedia, the expert animators on Bambi only managed about eight drawings a day. This amounted to about a half foot of animation compared to the usual ten feet. A dozen minute of the flick were eventually cut due to budget concerns, which may explain its mere 70 minute run-time.
