80 years later and is still the most beautiful animated film of all time R.I.P Bambi Mom

That’s the intro I remember that I was afraid the mandala affect had taken away

Ollie Johnston says they believe Bambi was Walt’s favorite film. I can see why it would be. Over 3 years ago, I came to feel that Bambi is the most flawless of the animated films Walt produced.

I remember as a kid I would get through the movie most days just to watch this art special that they stuck on at the end and it was absolutely mesmerizing. Still is.

5:46 I had this little tune stuck in my head for WEEKS! HOW did I retain this memory since childhood a good 20 years ago? Finally found it!

Many people consider animated movies "kids stuff" and less valuable than all these modern blockbusters with their car chases and explosions. But this shows how completely wrong they are! Animation is ART! And so much more work and skills and brains went into Bambi than into any modern action movie with illogical or non-existing storylines.

Bambi is my favorite Disney movie.

The early artwork of those scenes always mesmerized me as a kid.

I can never let go of my childhood favorites like this. This was art in my eyes, heart, and soul. To forget this or hate it is to hate or forget one’s childhood.

Rest in Peace Tyrus Wong and thank you.

Happy 80th Anniversary, Bambi! (1942-2022)

Quote: "Without responsable thinking, men can easily become the enemy of nature"! ....What an amazing movie O.o

"Bambi" is a great movie!

Thank you Walt Disney for making my childhood something beautiful

This is how animated movies should be made today

Happy 80th Anniversary (1942-2022)

Thank you for this. I remember watching this everytime I finish the movie before bed💜

Takes me back! Nostalgia is a beautiful thing. I feel old lol

It is sad that this documentary was never released on DVD. We would have loved to see the different behind-the-scenes videos from throughout the years.

This is why I'm thankful for bambi for even existing thanks for being a tremendous movie for my fondest childhood memories I'll always rember you forever and ever

Fact that bambi started to be worked as soon as snow white was realased shows how walt adores felix salton's novel so much that he litteraly rewatched snow white just to see deer there as an main inspiration, bambi is theoretically second movie disney ever made in early concept, even tough pinocchio, fantasia and dumbo came earlier

I think the two disney films that inspired me to pursue animation were this and The Lion King.

Holy moly never considered most of the contents of the video. Very impressive work.

At 11:59, "Bambi," was not an immediate triumph in its first release. It actually lost money at the box office in 1942 thanks to World War II. It would be many years before it would be considered a triumph.

Perfect for a movie called Tyranbi, the story of a young talking Tyrannosaurus who grows up from juvenile to a roaring adult as he teaches humans to respect wildlife and it ends with adult Tyranbi roaring in triumph as the rangers-the good guys observe Inspired by Bambi

I was drunk watching Bambi last night and cried.

My all-time favorite disney film at #1 Ever dispite that Bambi's Mother dies that scene makes me dead quit period> Still love Bambi in my heart!

"Bambi" was a good and great to save the day that he was a hero to rescue from danger. One of the movies are amazing that I was watching till all 30 and more than years.

This is how animated movies should be made periode. But sadly, animation was never the same after Walt's death.

Greatest disney feature ever so beloved

Loved watching this as a kid , repeatedly lol

gracias walt por esta pelicula tan hermosa y dejandosos esta joya que siempre sera recordada y estara siempre en nuestro corazon thankiu

I used to have this on VHS and Laserdisc

I remember watching this when I was very little. The funny thing is that I thought it was part of the movie. This happens to be my all time favorite behind the scenes video alongside Fun and Fancy Free. They really taught me about animations, filmmaking and voice acting. Best of all, they are the ultimate reason I’m into watching behind the scenes in the first place.

Thank you so much for posting this; its amazing how we used to create animation and how far we have come.

I think that's great they didn't have computers for drawing bambi, only an artist with his own hands could do that!

The video that made me want to be a filmmaker. So glad to find it here, my VHS is spotty in places from watching this segment so much as a kid.

In the movie Bambi is my favorite movie at all time. I felt sorry for bambi lose his mother.I lost my mother to from cancer long time ago

This should've been put on the platinum edition dvd, and the diamond and signature edition Blu-Rays

11:11.5-11:18 Fun fact: That piece of animation was actually borrowed from "The Reluctant Dragon." Also, I like hearing Corey Burton narrate this feature!

Walt Disney was a really handsome guy.

there was an advert before this came on for despicable me 3 complete with a rap, after that and then coming into the style and magic of this film. it really is quite the contrast

I admit that Bambi is my favorite Disney movie.Seeing the movie also led me to read Felix Salten's book.BTW,Disney adapted more Salten stories.He made a nature film out of Perri(a female squirrel),updated Salten's the Hound of Florence into The Shaggy Dog(there is even a reference to the Hound of Florence in the movie.)and they even made a comic book out of Salten's 1939 Bambi's Children.(When he wrote that he must have known there was a Bambi movie in progress.)

1:46 "We knew that to retain the charm of these creatures we must fully capture the natural movements and attitudes of living animals" While there is a STUFFED little fawn behind haha

Truer words never spoken! Animated movies were the real-norm at that time and they still are. ;)

5:40 The Rain Song

I actually have that episode of Disney Land in my Walt Disney Legacy collection vol 4

5:39 I don't know if they did or would make a Legacy Collection soundtrack for Bambi, but this song would be a good bonus track. And the original rain song became the more well known song we know today as Little April Shower which is considered to be the most famous song in the movie.

This behind the scenes video also appears on the 1997 laserdisc version of Bambi

I've never seen this documentary before, but I watched it on DVD.

I love a guy who doesn't cut corners. Compare this to modern Disney: The Rise of Skywalker had to be released before Christmas 2019 whether it was ready or not. They initially had a coherent storyline but the executives and test groups hated the 1st draft, ordered extensive reshoots and rewrites, and the effects were still in post production till after Halloween. The infamous "They fly now?" Lines were put in by the marketing department to signal to the kids in the audience that the action figures fly now. There was incompetence and corruption at every point in the writing and production process. 80 years from now, people will still talking about Bambi and getting excited over the intricate process of creating it, but few people will still care about or talk about the corrupt films of today's Disney.

For some reason, the little scene where they drop milk scared me as a child.

The writing was completed in July 1940, by which time the film's budget had increased to $858,000. Due to World War II, which began in Europe in 1939, Pinocchio and Fantasia failed at the box office. Facing financial difficulty, Walt Disney was forced to cut 12 minutes from the film before final animation to save production costs. There originally was a brief shot in the scene where Bambi's mother dies after jumping over a log and getting shot by a man. Larry Morey, however, felt the scene was too dramatic, and that it was emotional enough to justify having her death occur off screen. Walt Disney was also eager to show the man burned to death by his fire that he inadvertently started, but this was discarded when it was decided not to show the man at all. There was also a scene involving two autumn leaves conversing like an old married couple before parting ways and falling to the ground, but Disney found that talking flora did not work in the context of the film, and instead a visual metaphor of two realistic leaves falling to the ground was used instead.

I remember this narrator!

I heard this was Walt Disney's favorite film. Is that true? Any sources that confirm this?

OMG YES I FOUND IT THE INTRO EXISTS YESSSS

I feel like next to Snow White is one of the best films in my book

THIS IS THE INTRO I REMEMBER! Wow

Here after I saw the vid on tiktok 😂❤️

Bambi was scary to me when I was little

Omg the tinker bell intro. I knew I wasn’t crazy.

Great Stuff! thanks for posting.

It was the end of the year 1942.

14:08 that picture of the owl used to scare the HECK out of me as a kid! omg im getting goosebumps again. I have a big book of Walt's original classics... except chicken little -_-. but all the rest of them i seriously recognized :) at the end of each story, it tells the making of the production and movie :)

Edward Plumb Isolated Score Autumn 🍂 / The First Snow ⛄️ / Fun 🤩 of The Snow ❄️ (Extended Version)

@11:24 So that's how they did it. Ever since I grew up, I wondered how they got the depth and parallax in that opening sequence.

Nostalgic blast, all thanks to you :D

Disney Bambi and the magic behind (1942 2001 UK VHS)

11:58 Uh no it wasn't. The film bombed and was poorly received by critics. It wasn't until subsequent re-releases that it made money and its reputation improved.

Back then animation was the only thing in color or a few

10:40 Congratulations, Bambi. It's a boy.

Edward Plumb Isolated Score Fire 🔥/ Reunion/Finale (Love 💗is A Song 🎧)

Produced by TV Is OK Productions In Association With Watch It On Disney XD

you mean the making of a musical masterpiece

art is magical...this is magic

Opening and closing to bambi 1997 vhs

Hope there will be a live remake of it

i love these people

And someone said Bambi was a failure...

Produced and written by Harry arends Phil savenick

Someday if I become an actor I'm going to ask to turn Bambi into a live action film for Disney and ask Ridley Scott to be the director.

Bambi is 80 years old this year… feel old yet?

11:12 (Me rubbing my eyes) Me: "What the- He just...moved?"

What i like about this video is that Andreas deja is not in it .

2000 lyons partnership l.p. All rights reserved.

I remember tinker bells wand malfunctioning so she has to tap it to get it to work again as well.

bro wtf that's the real intro

At 11:18, the multiplane camera is a very interesting animation tool, but isn't it gonna waste the animators and artists time by photographing one frame at a time? Why not just use it to record the illusion instead? That would make it easy for them in time for the theatrical release.

i will become an animator and ill make bambi 3 :3

I have this movie for DVD

Edward Plumb Isolated Score End Of Time

1:05 Really, all that work for a 70 Minute Film. Compare that to others, Snow White started in 1935, Pinocchio started after Walt Disney wondered what to work on Next, not sure on Fantasia, and Dumbo started work around the same year it Premiered, originally to be a Featurette.

It's kinda gross that people in the comments have to put down modern animation in order to put up old animation. If you want animation like this then do it yourself.

Omg I Knew She Was There

Making Of The Little Mer-Mouse 1997

Yeah but there were no computers when it was made. Not to say that animating with computers is easy, but then it was twice as hard.

this is great stuff

yeah.. 90's great... but Bambi was made in 1942? not 90...

walt's LION KING

so the animated forest is a real forest?