"Bambi Bambi is a 1942 American animated film directed by David Hand (supervising a team of sequence directors), produced by Walt Disney and based on the book ""Bambi, a Life in the Woods"" by Austrian author Felix Salten. The film was released by RKO Radio Pictures on August 13, 1942, and is the fifth Disney animated feature film. The main characters are Bambi, a mule 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. For the movie, Disney"
"his father, demonstrating that he deserves to be prince and can live up to his father's name. Bambi (character) Bambi is the title character in Felix Salten's 1923 novel ""Bambi, a Life in the Woods"" and its sequel ""Bambi's Children"", as well as the Disney animated films ""Bambi"" and ""Bambi II"". The character of Bambi also appears in Salten's novels ""Perri"" and ""Fifteen Rabbits"". Early German-language editions of the novels were illustrated by Hans Bertle. In the films, his species was changed from roe deer to the white-tailed deer, which would be more familiar to American audiences. His image is"
"Bambi (character) Bambi is the title character in Felix Salten's 1923 novel ""Bambi, a Life in the Woods"" and its sequel ""Bambi's Children"", as well as the Disney animated films ""Bambi"" and ""Bambi II"". The character of Bambi also appears in Salten's novels ""Perri"" and ""Fifteen Rabbits"". Early German-language editions of the novels were illustrated by Hans Bertle. In the films, his species was changed from roe deer to the white-tailed deer, which would be more familiar to American audiences. His image is a Disney icon, comparable to the recognition of Jiminy Cricket or Tinkerbell, and he is even shown"
"United States in 1926. In 1936, Salten sold some rights to the novel to MGM producer Sidney Franklin who passed them on to Walt Disney for the creation of a film adaptation. After Salten's death in 1945, his daughter Anna Wyler inherited the copyright and renewed the novel's copyrighted status in 1954 (U.S. copyright law in effect at the time provided for an initial term of 28 years from the date of first publication in the U.S., which could be extended for an additional 28 years provided the copyright holder filed for renewal before the expiration of the initial copyright)."
"conquest and betrayal"" and ""a forest full of cutthroats and miscreants. I count at least six murderers (including three child-killers) among Bambi's associates."" Liberal critics have argued ""Bambi"" to be one of the first environmental novels. With World War II looming, Max Schuster aided the Jewish Salten's flight from Nazi Germany and helped introduce him, and ""Bambi"", to Walt Disney Productions. Sidney Franklin, a producer and director at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, purchased the film rights in 1933, initially desiring to make a live-action adaptation of the work. Deciding such a film would be too difficult to make, he sold the rights to"
"in the United States, illustrated presumably by Richard Cowdrey. Djibi, the Kitten Djibi, the Kitten () is the last novel of Felix Salten, published originally in 1945 and translated into English in 1946. Similarly as in other Salten's late books, the protagonist is an animal, this time a young female cat called Djibi. In ""Renni the Rescuer"", the main animal character had been a loyal servant to humans, but Djibi is an independent cat who chooses for herself where to live. The novel begins dramatically with a drowning attempt which the young kitten survives. A boy rescues her from the"
"1943, Swedish in 1944, Slovak in 1947, and Finnish in 2016, most with illustrations by Philipp Arlen. Renni the Rescuer Renni the Rescuer: A Dog of the Battlefield (German original: ""Renni der Retter: Das Leben eines Kriegshundes"") is a 1940 war novel by Felix Salten, describing the career of a military working dog called Renni, a German Shepherd dog, and his master, Georg. Although the book is a work of fiction, Salten did some research for it: he was allowed to follow the dog training of the Swiss army. The story is set to an unspecific German-language country, and the"
"In 1958, she formulated three agreements with Disney regarding the novel's rights. Upon her death in 1977, the rights passed to her husband, Veit Wyler, and her children, who held on to them until 1993 when he sold the rights to the publishing house Twin Books. Twin Books and Disney disagreed on the terms and validity of Disney's original contract with Anna Wyler and Disney's continued use of the Bambi name. When the two companies were unable to reach a solution, Twin Books filed suit against Disney for copyright infringement. Disney argued that because Salten's original 1923 publication of the"
"Faline Faline is a fictional character in Felix Salten's 1923 novel ""Bambi, a Life in the Woods"" and its sequel ""Bambi's Children"", as well as in the Disney animated films ""Bambi"" and ""Bambi II"". Her mother is Ena. First shown as a fawn and later as a young adult doe, Faline's role is as Bambi's friend and later mate. Faline was featured as one of the guests in ""Disney's House of Mouse"". Faline, sister to twin fawn Gobo, showed considerably less personality than in the animated films despite an extended role. There was little to indicate romantic ideas in her"
"Bambi's Children Bambi's Children: The Story of a Forest Family () is a novel written by Austrian author Felix Salten as a sequel to his successful work ""Bambi, A Life in the Woods"". The sequel to ""Bambi"" follows the lives of the twin children of Bambi and his cousin Faline as they grow from fawns through adulthood. Salten wrote the sequel while living in exile in Switzerland after being forced to flee Nazi-occupied Austria as he was of Jewish heritage. Originally written in German, the novel was first published in English in the United States in 1939 by Bobbs-Merrill. It"
"translation of the novel was published first, in the United States in 1939 by Bobbs-Merrill, but it would take a year before the sequel was published in the original German language in Switzerland by his new publisher. ""Bambi"" was ""hugely popular"" after its publication, becoming a ""book-of-the-month"" selection and selling 650,000 copies in the United States by 1942. However, it was subsequently banned in Nazi Germany in 1936 as ""political allegory on the treatment of Jews in Europe."" Many copies of the novel were burned, making original first editions rare and difficult to find. When Felix Salten visited the United"
"Djibi, the Kitten Djibi, the Kitten () is the last novel of Felix Salten, published originally in 1945 and translated into English in 1946. Similarly as in other Salten's late books, the protagonist is an animal, this time a young female cat called Djibi. In ""Renni the Rescuer"", the main animal character had been a loyal servant to humans, but Djibi is an independent cat who chooses for herself where to live. The novel begins dramatically with a drowning attempt which the young kitten survives. A boy rescues her from the river and takes to his home where a dog"
"Perri (novel) Perri: The Youth of a Squirrel (German: ""Die Jugend des Eichhörnchens Perri"") is a 1938 novel by Felix Salten, author of ""Bambi, a Life in the Woods"", and is a followup to that book. Its title character is an Eurasian red squirrel. Bambi makes a brief appearance in ""Perri"". The novel was first published in English translation in 1938 because the German-language edition printed in Vienna was confiscated and destroyed by the Nazis in 1938. Only in 1942 the book appeared in German language, published by Albert Müller in Zürich, illustrated by Hans Bertle. Before a successful German-language"
"The Hound of Florence The Hound of Florence: A Novel () is a 1923 novel written by Felix Salten. It is best known today for partly inspiring (and even mentioned in) the 1959 Walt Disney Pictures film, ""The Shaggy Dog"", as well as a sequel and remakes. The novel was first translated into English in 1930 by Huntley Paterson, and the translation has illustrations by Kurt Wiese. ""The Hound of Florence"" is an adventure story for young readers, set in early eighteenth-century Austria and Italy. The adolescent Lukas Grassi has lost his parents and lives in Vienna in great poverty,"
"premiered in December 2006 on Disney DVD as part of the ""Legacy Collection"". Parts of the film were shot in Salt Lake City and the Uinta National Forest in Utah. Perri (film) Perri is a 1957 film from Walt Disney Productions, based on Felix Salten's 1938 ""Perri: The Youth of a Squirrel"". It was the company's fifth feature entry in their ""True-Life Adventures"" series, and the only one to be labeled a ""True Life Fantasy"". In doing so, the Disney team combined the documentary aspects of earlier efforts with fictional scenarios and characters. The story's title character is a young"
"2016 includes both endings. The Hound of Florence The Hound of Florence: A Novel () is a 1923 novel written by Felix Salten. It is best known today for partly inspiring (and even mentioned in) the 1959 Walt Disney Pictures film, ""The Shaggy Dog"", as well as a sequel and remakes. The novel was first translated into English in 1930 by Huntley Paterson, and the translation has illustrations by Kurt Wiese. ""The Hound of Florence"" is an adventure story for young readers, set in early eighteenth-century Austria and Italy. The adolescent Lukas Grassi has lost his parents and lives in"
"including Australia, Austria, Brazil, Dominican Republic, France, Mexico, the United Kingdom and some other European countries. The copyrights for ""Bambi, A Life in the Woods"" were inherited by Anna Wyler, Salten's daughter, who renewed them in 1954. After her death, Wyler's husband sold the rights to Twin Books, a publishing company which subsequently filed a lawsuit against Disney, claiming Disney owed it money for the continued licensing for the use of the book. Disney countered by claiming that Salten had published the story in 1923 without a copyright notice, thus it immediately entered into the public domain. Disney also argued"
"to twins under Bambi's watchful eye as the new Great Prince of the Forest. Sources differ on whether Sutherland actually voiced Young Adult Bambi. In 1933, Sidney Franklin, a producer and director at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, purchased the film rights to Felix Salten's novel ""Bambi, A Life in the Woods"", intending to adapt it as a live-action film. After years of experimentation, he eventually decided that it would be too difficult to make such a film and he sold the film rights to Walt Disney in April 1937. Disney began work on crafting an animated adaptation immediately, intending it to be the"
"on the first of L. Frank Baum's ""Oz"" books. However, Roy O. Disney, the chairman of Walt Disney Productions, was informed by Baum's estate that they had sold the film rights to the first book to Samuel Goldwyn, who re-sold it to Louis B. Mayer in 1938. The film was ironically approved due to the success of ""Snow White"". The project was then developed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) into the well-known musical adaptation which was released the following year. In 1954, when the film rights to Baum's remaining thirteen ""Oz"" books were made available, Walt Disney Productions acquired them for use"
"than sketches. In 2002, the Schulman adaptation was released in audiobook format by Audio Bookshelf, with Frank Dolan as the reader. Bambi, a Life in the Woods Bambi, a Life in the Woods, originally published in Austria as Bambi: Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde is a 1923 Austrian novel written by Felix Salten and published by Ullstein Verlag. The novel traces the life of Bambi, a male roe deer, from his birth through childhood, the loss of his mother, the finding of a mate, the lessons he learns from his father and experience about the dangers posed by human hunters"
"Bambi, a Life in the Woods Bambi, a Life in the Woods, originally published in Austria as Bambi: Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde is a 1923 Austrian novel written by Felix Salten and published by Ullstein Verlag. The novel traces the life of Bambi, a male roe deer, from his birth through childhood, the loss of his mother, the finding of a mate, the lessons he learns from his father and experience about the dangers posed by human hunters in the forest. An English translation by Whittaker Chambers was published in North America by Simon & Schuster in 1928, and"
"The fiction book ""Fire Bringer"" is about a young fawn who goes on a quest to save the Herla, the deer kind. In the 1942 Walt Disney Pictures film, ""Bambi"" is a white-tailed deer, while in Felix Salten's original 1923 book ""Bambi, a Life in the Woods"", he is a roe deer. In C. S. Lewis's 1950 fantasy novel ""The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"" the adult Pevensies, now kings and queens of Narnia, chase the White Stag on a hunt, as the Stag is said to grant its captor a wish. The hunt is key in returning the"
"to the Disney film, Steve Chapple of ""Sports Afield"" felt that Salten viewed Bambi's forest as a ""pretty scary place"" and the novel as a whole had a ""lot of dark adult undertones."" Interpreting it as an allegory for Salten's own life, Chapple felt Salten came across as ""a little morbid, a bleeding heart of a European intellectual."" ""The Wall Street Journal""s James P. Sterba also considered it an ""antifascist allegory"" and sarcastically notes that ""you'll find it in the children's section at the library, a perfect place for this 293-page volume, packed as it is with blood-and-guts action, sexual"
"ground"" are the difficult ""high school"" dressage movements made famous by the Lipizzans. The finished movements include: Other movements include: Lipizzans have starred or played supporting roles in many movies, TV shows, books, and other media. The 1940 film ""Florian"" stars two Lipizzan stallions. It was based on a 1934 novel written by Felix Salten. The wife of the film's producer owned the only Lipizzans in the US at the time the movie was made. The rescue during World War II of the Lipizzan stallions is depicted in the 1963 Walt Disney movie ""Miracle of the White Stallions"". The movie"
"twin fawns who are calling for their mother and he scolds them for not being able to stay alone. After leaving them, he thinks to himself that the girl fawn reminded him of Faline, and that the male was promising and that Bambi hoped to meet him again when he was grown. Salten, himself an avid hunter, penned ""Bambi: Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde"" after World War I, targeting an adult audience. The novel was first published in Vienna in serialized form in the ""Neue Freie Presse"" newspaper from 15 August to 21 October 1922, and as a book in"
"cartoon, ""Believe it or Not!"" into book form. The series has gone on to sell over 30 million copies. While at Simon & Schuster, he started the translation career of Whittaker Chambers by having him translate ""Bambi"" from German: My college friend, Clifton Fadiman, was then [circa 1927–1928] a reader at Simon and Schuster, the New York book publishers. He offered to let me try my hand at translating a little German book. It was about a deer named Bambi and was written by an Austrian, of whom I had never heard, named Felix Salten... Bambi was an instant success,"
"its first printing as a book. In 1958 the novel was adapted with significant plot and character alterations as a film released by Twentieth Century Fox. In particular, the characters of Cleve and Abbott have their ages, experience, and inner demons transposed to accommodate the use of Mitchum in the protagonist's role, but the screenplay also renders Pell a more sympathetic character, Moncavage a less sympathetic one, merges the other wingmen in Cleve's flight into as a single composite character (Corona), and invents a romantic triangle love interest for Mitchum. The Hunters (novel) The Hunters is James Salter's debut novel"
"Ronno is frequently seen flirting with her and attempting to impress her with exaggerated or false tales of his alleged acts of courage. A nod is even made to the fashion in which Ronno tried to force Faline away from Bambi in the original film. Towards the end of the film, a now teenage Bambi is inadvertently prodded into Faline by an ill-tempered porcupine, resulting in an accidental kiss that leaves Faline in a dreamy, blissful daze, thus – increasing her crush on Bambi. Faline Faline is a fictional character in Felix Salten's 1923 novel ""Bambi, a Life in the"
"Renni the Rescuer Renni the Rescuer: A Dog of the Battlefield (German original: ""Renni der Retter: Das Leben eines Kriegshundes"") is a 1940 war novel by Felix Salten, describing the career of a military working dog called Renni, a German Shepherd dog, and his master, Georg. Although the book is a work of fiction, Salten did some research for it: he was allowed to follow the dog training of the Swiss army. The story is set to an unspecific German-language country, and the German-language edition opens with a note: “The occurrences depicted in this book take place in an imaginary"
"film adaptation of ""Oz"" by Disney began after the release of ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" in 1937, when Walt Disney planned to produce an animated film based on the first of Baum's ""Oz"" books, until Baum's estate had already sold the film rights to the first book to Samuel Goldwyn, who re-sold it to Louis B. Mayer in 1938. The film was ironically approved due to the success of ""Snow White"". The project was developed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer into the well-known musical adaptation and released the following year. In 1954, when the film rights to Baum's remaining thirteen ""Oz"""
"In the same novel, Dahl called the wives of gremlins ""Fifinellas"", their male children ""Widgets"", and their female children ""Flibbertigibbets"". Dahl showed the finished manuscript to Sidney Bernstein, the head of the British Information Service, who came up with the idea to send it to Walt Disney. The manuscript arrived in Disney's hands in July 1942, and he considered using it as material for a live action/animated full-length feature film, offering Dahl a contract. The film project was changed to an animated feature and entered pre-production, with characters ""roughed out"" and storyboards created. Disney managed to have the story published"
"Walt Disney in April 1937 in hopes of it being adapted into an animated film instead. Disney began working on the film immediately, intending it to be the company's second feature-length animated film and his first to be based on a specific, recent work. The original novel, written for an adult audience, was considered too ""grim"" and ""somber"" for the young audience Disney was targeting, and with the work required to adapt the novel, Disney put production on hold while it worked on several other projects. In 1938, Disney assigned Perce Pearce and Carl Fallberg to develop the film's storyboards,"
"and the dogs save him, Mr. Haggin makes a deal with Rene, to come and live with him and keep the dogs. Rene agrees and they go home. Big Red (film) Big Red is a 1962 American family-oriented adventure film from Walt Disney Productions. Based on a 1945 novel by American author Jim Kjelgaard and adapted to the screen by American screenwriter Louis Pelletier, the film starred Walter Pidgeon. Filmed in the province of Quebec, ""Big Red"" is an Irish Setter that would rather run through the woods than be the perfectly trained and groomed show dog his sportsman owner"