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.
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 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.
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.
That and modern animated films would often pander towards kids with more of the case of dumb jokes and pop culture references and the lack of any emotional weight. *cough* Illumination..
+Joseph Pratt Yep But Remember This Movie Was Not a Box Office Hit Cause Of WW2 At The Time FYI This Disney Movie Is Still My Favorite Even Though It Has Many Tough Scenes Includes The Death Of The Mom!
Ever notice in kids movies there's always this terrible trauma of losing a parent?? Lion king, bambi, dumbo (locked away but not killed) or they're absent or deceased - snow white, cinderella, lilo & stitch, beauty and the beast. Apparently it is in part due to Disney's guilt about his mother's death. Anyway, the only thing I remember about Bambi was the traumatic way the mother died and how that impacted me as a child.
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
I recently acquired a brand new copy with the slipcover of the 2005 platinum edition DVD release of bambi and funny enough I also came across a copy of it at a rummage sale but it didn't have the main disc with the movie itself on it it also didn't have the slip cover but I find it humorous that I ended up with two copies of the exact same release of this movie
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.
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
"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.
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.
Not to mention it was also slammed by other people like hunters and sportsmen, who thought the movie, particularly the villain of Man, was an embarrassment and a terrible depiction of who they were.
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
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.
Animation was going downhill the decade before Walt Disney died in 1966. UPA started the trend of,"limited animation,"in the 1950s-and when Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera started their TV-cartoon co. in 1957, limited animation was the standard.(They had to get cartoons done quickly for television.)
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
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!
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
80 years later and is still the most beautiful animated film of all time
R.I.P Bambi Mom
Early 1997
Bambi: I Miss You 🥰
That’s the intro I remember that I was afraid the mandala affect had taken away
yes!!
Same!! I looked for months and when I found this I screamed! I was worried for my sanity, as was my sister lol
hmmm not quite for me. It's close. but not exactly. I remember her dotting the 'i' for disney before she flew off
@@kayla.latrice This?? th-cam.com/video/UJCfWq93xKo/w-d-xo.html
ikr
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.
Me too!! I loved watching this at the end of the vhs!
Same! I remember drawing along with this and trying to draw the deer as accurately as I could.
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.
wow
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!
it reminds me of "Just keep Swimming: from finding nemo, lol
Bambi: Awesome 😎
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.
The early artwork of those scenes always mesmerized me as a kid.
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.
Tinkerbe11 ikr I hate that way of thinking
That and modern animated films would often pander towards kids with more of the case of dumb jokes and pop culture references and the lack of any emotional weight. *cough* Illumination..
Bambi: Amazing 😻
Rest in Peace Tyrus Wong and thank you.
Quote:
"Without responsable thinking, men can easily become the enemy of nature"! ....What an amazing movie O.o
Happy 80th Anniversary, Bambi! (1942-2022)
🎉Happy Anniversary to the most artistic and beautiful Disney film after 80 years🎉
Happy 20th Anniversary Bambi
"Bambi" is a great movie!
+Joseph Pratt Yep But Remember This Movie Was Not a Box Office Hit Cause Of WW2 At The Time FYI This Disney Movie Is Still My Favorite Even Though It Has Many Tough Scenes Includes The Death Of The Mom!
Ever notice in kids movies there's always this terrible trauma of losing a parent?? Lion king, bambi, dumbo (locked away but not killed) or they're absent or deceased - snow white, cinderella, lilo & stitch, beauty and the beast. Apparently it is in part due to Disney's guilt about his mother's death. Anyway, the only thing I remember about Bambi was the traumatic way the mother died and how that impacted me as a child.
Me too
Me too! 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍
Dumbo 2 Was Cancelled 😠
Bambi is my favorite Disney movie.
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
Thank you Walt Disney for making my childhood something beautiful
You’re welcome 😇
This is how animated movies should be made today
Agreed!
I can arrange that someday once I start my own film company.
Yep that's why we call animated movies in Romania "desene animate" which means "animated art" or something
ik
if only
Happy 80th Anniversary (1942-2022)
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!
I was drunk watching Bambi last night and cried.
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
I recently acquired a brand new copy with the slipcover of the 2005 platinum edition DVD release of bambi
and funny enough I also came across a copy of it at a rummage sale but it didn't have the main disc with the movie itself on it it also didn't have the slip cover but I find it humorous that I ended up with two copies of the exact same release of this movie
R.I.P. Joe Grant
Loved watching this as a kid , repeatedly 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.
true
I think the two disney films that inspired me to pursue animation were this and The Lion King.
Walt Disney was great no hate can change that!
yes just amazing animation and artwork!
thats as it should be
ha
Dumbo 2 Was Cancelled 😡
Holy moly never considered most of the contents of the video. Very impressive work.
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
Greatest disney feature ever so beloved
I used to have this on VHS and Laserdisc
"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.
Walt Disney was a really handsome guy.
5:40 The Rain Song
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
gracias walt por esta pelicula tan hermosa y dejandosos esta joya que siempre sera recordada y estara siempre en nuestro corazon
thankiu
You’re welcome ☺️
This should've been put on the platinum edition dvd, and the diamond and signature edition Blu-Rays
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.
TwilightSparkle3562 Wouldn't think so from looking at it now, would you?
Also critics gave it mixed reviews because it contained no fantasy elements.
+MediaLover194 True and I'm Shocked That This Film Was a Box Office Flop in 1942 Years Before It Became More Of a Hit After Walt Disney's Death!
Not to mention it was also slammed by other people like hunters and sportsmen, who thought the movie, particularly the villain of Man, was an embarrassment and a terrible depiction of who they were.
Sanka Jones Yup and Man Was Not Seen At All In The Film!
Thank you so much for posting this; its amazing how we used to create animation and how far we have come.
You’re welcome 😉
I remember this narrator!
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
Great Stuff! thanks for posting.
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.
Truer words never spoken!
Animated movies were the real-norm at that time and they still are. ;)
Nostalgic blast, all thanks to you :D
I think that's great they didn't have computers for drawing bambi, only an artist with his own hands could do that!
fra.carol I loved watching the portion where the people painted on the glass. I wish there was that kind of love and care in making art and film now.
Bambi 3 Was Cancelled 😞
THIS IS THE INTRO I REMEMBER! Wow
This is how animated movies should be made periode. But sadly, animation was never the same after Walt's death.
Animation was going downhill the decade before Walt Disney died in 1966. UPA started the trend of,"limited animation,"in the 1950s-and when Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera started their TV-cartoon co. in 1957, limited animation was the standard.(They had to get cartoons done quickly for television.)
R.I.P. Walt Disney
I actually have that episode of Disney Land in my Walt Disney Legacy collection vol 4
I've never seen this documentary before, but I watched it on DVD.
OMG YES I FOUND IT THE INTRO EXISTS YESSSS
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
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!
From The Reculant Dragon: (Laughs) What do you know? It took me serious
Reluctant Dragon 🐉: Delicious 🤤
Bambi was scary to me when I was little
Omg the tinker bell intro. I knew I wasn’t crazy.
I feel like next to Snow White is one of the best films in my book
For some reason, the little scene where they drop milk scared me as a child.
This behind the scenes video also appears on the 1997 laserdisc version of Bambi
i love these people
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 :)
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 is great stuff
It was the end of the year 1942.
art is magical...this is magic
Nobody is talking about the the mandala effect
Here after I saw the vid on tiktok 😂❤️
Lol same
Tik.. tok.. tik.. tok..
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.
Edward Plumb Isolated Score Fire 🔥/ Reunion/Finale (Love 💗is A Song 🎧)
Edward Plumb Isolated Score Autumn 🍂 / The First Snow ⛄️ / Fun 🤩 of The Snow ❄️ (Extended Version)
Back then animation was the only thing in color or a few
Disney Bambi and the magic behind (1942 2001 UK VHS)
10:40 Congratulations, Bambi. It's a boy.
how
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 heard this was Walt Disney's favorite film. Is that true? Any sources that confirm this?
Yup It's True Bambi Was Walt's Favorite Disney Film Ever!
Vince Niederman 12:23.
Yeah, it's true. He said it himself.
frank and ollie
I have this movie for DVD
@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.
11:12
(Me rubbing my eyes)
Me: "What the- He just...moved?"
Opening and closing to bambi 1997 vhs
you mean the making of a musical masterpiece
I remember tinker bells wand malfunctioning so she has to tap it to get it to work again as well.
Omg I Knew She Was There
Edward Plumb Isolated Score End Of Time
Produced by TV Is OK Productions
In Association With Watch It On Disney XD
Hope there will be a live remake of it
Produced and written by
Harry arends
Phil savenick
And someone said Bambi was a failure...
2000 lyons partnership l.p.
All rights reserved.
Does anybody know where that footage of Walt Disney talking about Bambi was from?
Bambi is 80 years old this year… feel old yet?
What i like about this video is that Andreas deja is not in it .
Making Of The Little Mer-Mouse 1997
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.
Then again so did other Disney classics
È stato piacere tesoro è stato piacioro
bro wtf that's the real intro
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.
walt's LION KING
1:24, what episode of Disneyland is this?
1996-1997
5:39
i will become an animator and ill make bambi 3 :3
MrGroszmen PL you got an idea for it and will you need a voice actor
Will it be based off of Bambi's Children, the second book?
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.