Roe deer deer Bambi (the titular character of the book "Bambi, A Life in the Woods" (1923) and its sequel "Bambi's Children" (1939), by Felix Salten) is originally a roe deer. When the story was adapted into the animated feature film "Bambi" (1942), by the Walt Disney Studios, Bambi was changed to a mule deer, and accordingly, the setting was changed to a North American wilderness. These changes made Bambi a deer species more familiar to mainstream US viewers. Roe deer The European roe deer ("Capreolus capreolus"), also known as the western roe deer, "chevreuil", or simply roe deer or roe, is
Walt Disney Animation Studios and the "Donald Duck" cartoons eclipsed the "Mickey Mouse" series in popularity. The "Silly Symphonies", which garnered seven , ended in 1939. The success of "Snow White" allowed Disney to build a new, larger studio on Buena Vista Street in Burbank, where The Walt Disney Company remains headquartered to this day. Walt Disney Productions had its initial public offering on April 2, 1940, with Walt Disney as president and chairman and Roy Disney as CEO. The studio launched into the production of new animated features, the first of which was "Pinocchio", released in February 1940. "Pinocchio" was not initially a