Bambi 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
Walt Disney Angeles because his brother Roy was convalescing from tuberculosis there. Disney's efforts to sell "Alice's Wonderland" were in vain until he heard from New York film distributor Margaret J. Winkler. She was losing the rights to both the "Out of the Inkwell" and "Felix the Cat" cartoons, and needed a new series. In October, they signed a contract for six "Alice" comedies, with an option for two further series of six episodes each. Disney and his brother Roy formed the Disney Brothers Studiowhich later became The Walt Disney Companyto produce the films; they persuaded Davis and her family to relocate