History Trivia / Bambi

* GenreKiller: The film's poor box office returns, along with the studio's involvement in the war, put an end to Disney's lavish and expensive features. The studio only produced package films for a few years and their [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty only attempt to return to this form]] didn't fair any better; it wouldn't be until the early 90's with the Disney Renaissance that they would go for movies with this type of punch again, although a handful of other classics came about in the meantime.

* CastIncest: Paula Winslowe, the voice of Bambi's mother, was married to Bambi's adult voice actor, John Sutherland, and stayed together until the former's death in 1996.

* {{Trope Namer|s}}: For {{Bambification}}. "The Bambi Effect" is also an alternate name for WhatMeasureIsANonCute

* OldShame: A more pragmatic case. During his days in the Marine Corps, Donnie Dunagan kept his role as the voice of Bambi a well-kept secret for the majority of his employment, knowing no one there would take him seriously as "Major Bambi". He had fond memories of making the film, however, and following his retirement, he came to embrace the connection.

** In the 1984 holiday season, Hardee's released a set of five plushes based on Disney movies. Besides Bambi, there were also plushes of [[WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp Lady]], WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}, WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}, and one of the WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians.

* SequelInAnotherMedium: The Disney adaptation of ''Bambi's Children'' was initially planned as a movie follow-up before getting canned due to the original movies poor box office returns, though it eventually got a ComicBookAdaptation published via Dell.

** In a more meta example, the 1988 theatrical re-release saw Creator/MarkElliot going with a lower-key more dramatic tone (similar to the tone he used for Walt Disney Home Video's famous "Feature Presentation" bumper used on animated features throughout the '90s) than his usual warm and chipper voice for the trailer. The reason for this was because, according to an interview, he had a cold when recording the trailer and they didn't have enough time to let him recover before doing so and thus he begrudgingly agreed to at least give it a try, and the executives loved it so much that they kept it in.

* MoneyDearBoy: Felix Salten's key reason for giving Disney the film rights to Bambi, since he was in exile during the war, he was in desperate need of money to finance a new life, and expressed his regret at it later on. To add further insult to injury, Salten got no royalties for the film upon it's release.

* OldShame: A more pragmatic case. During his days in the Marine Corps, Donnie Dunagan kept his role as the voice of Bambi a well kept secret for the majority of his employment, knowing no one there would take him seriously as "Major Bambi". He had fond memories making the film however, and following his retirement he came to embrace the connection.
* PromotedFanboy: Creator/OsamuTezuka was a major fan of this movie and saw it 80 times. Disney hired him to write a manga adaptation in 1951.

** In the production of the first film, it was debated how to show the death of Bambi's mom: originally, she was to be shown [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bambi_deadmomsketch2.png collapsing into]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bambi_deadmotherdeleted.jpg the snow]] after [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bambi_deadmomsketch1.png jumping over a log]] and hearing the sound of a shotgun, but it was decided the scene would be more effective emotionally if she was not shown. The animators also considered having Bambi find her body in a pool of blood, but this [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath family unfriendly image]] was replaced by the Great Prince simply telling him "Your mother can't be with you anymore."

* ImageSource for:
** {{Bambification}}
** EyelashFluttering
** FirstSnow
** [[Woobie/AnimatedFilms Woobie - Animated Films]]
** WoodlandCreatures

** In the production of the first film, it was debated how to show the death of Bambi's mom: originally, she was to be shown [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bambi_deadmomsketch2.png collapsing into]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bambi_deadmotherdeleted.jpg the snow]] after [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bambi_deadmomsketch1.png jumping over a log]] and hearing the sound of a shotgun, but it was decided the scene would be more effective emotionally if she was not shown.

* CharacterSpecificPages: [[Characters/BambiRonno Ronno]]

** In a more meta example, the 1988 theatrical re-release saw Creator/MarkElliot going with a lower-key more dramatic tone than his usual warm and chipper voice for the trailer. The reason for this was because, according to an interview, he had a cold when recording the trailer and they didn't have enough time to let him recover before doing so and thus he begrudgingly agreed to at least give it a try, and the executives loved it so much that they kept it in.

* AFIS100Years100HeroesAndVillains:
** #20 Villain, Man
* AFIS10Top10:
** #3, Animation

** ArtisticLicenseBiology

** In a more meta example, the 1988 theatrical re-release saw Creator/MarkElliott going with a lower-key more dramatic tone than his usual warm and chipper voice for the trailer. The reason for this was because, according to an interview, he had a cold when recording the trailer and they didn't have enough time to let him recover before doing so and thus he begrudgingly agreed to at least give it a try, and the executives loved it so much that they kept it in.

* EnforcedMethodActing: Peter Behn (young Thumper in the first film) was only four during the recording phase, and couldn't read the script. Instead, he mimicked the director until each line had the vocal inflection that was needed. The loud bursts of vocalization he used to play Thumper were also completely unscripted; that was literally how he talked.

* DuelingDubs: The film has been dubbed in Finnish twice. The first dub was released in 1969 and the second dub was made in 2005 for the DVD release.
** The film has also been dubbed twice in Sweden and Germany.

** Woobie.AnimatedFilms

-->For trivia about ''Disney/BambiII'', see [[Trivia/BambiII here]].

* GenreKiller: The film's poor box office returns, along with the studio's involvement in the war, put an end to Disney's lavish and expensive features. The studio only produced package films for a few years and their [[Disney/SleepingBeauty only attempt to return to this form]] didn't fair any better; it wouldn't be until the early 90's with the Disney Renaissance that they would go for movies with this type of punch again, although a handful of other classics came about in the meantime.

** The film was originally going to be the studio's second animated film after ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', but Walt's goal of animating the deer realistically proved to be more challenging than anticipated, so it was moved down the production line, and ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'' became their second feature instead.

* CutSong: The soundtrack to the first film has an early version of "Little April Showers" called "Rain Drops", which was more of an Music/AndrewSisters-esque swing number.

* CutSong: The soundtrack to the first film has an early version of "Little April Showers" called "Rain Drops".