Today, as "Bambi" receives a fresh new Blu-ray and Digital HD release to celebrate its diamond jubilee, two of its most charming contributors are raising their voices once again to share their experiences making the film.Īs the voice of and visual reference for the wide-eyed fawn Bambi, actor Donnie Dunagan was the veteran of the duo, with several films to his credit (including 1939's " Son of Frankenstein") by the time he stepped into the recording studio for Disney. The fifth animated feature film to come out of Walt Disney's animation studio in the summer of 1942, based the book "Bambi, a Life In the Woods" by on Austrian children's author Felix Salten, " Bambi" marked multiple turning points for Disney's now-fabled pantheon of classics.Ĭreatively, the film saw the animation art form blaze new trails with its extremely realistic depiction of its woodland creatures and its colorfully impressionistic, atmospheric background art that allowed the lavishly animated lead characters to better pop onscreen in audience's eyes.īehind the scenes, "Bambi" would be the last Disney full-length feature released to the public for the duration of World War II, during which Disney and his team labored on government-contracted animation and musical cartoon anthologies until the war ended and work commenced on the studio's next masterpiece, 1950's " Cinderella." Seventy-five years later, Bambi and Thumper - and the no-longer-little fellas who gave them voice - are still pretty captivating.
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