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
I Was a Teenage Werewolf Gen. Kirk on the short-run TV series "The Time Tunnel". Although today the film is largely regarded as a source of "camp" humor, and while at the time of release the idea of an adult human turning into a beast was nothing new, the idea of a "teenager" doing just that in a movie was considered avant-garde—and even shocking—in 1957. "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" likely paved the way for Walt Disney to do his version of a Felix Salten shapeshifting novel, "The Hound of Florence". Featuring Disney favorite Tommy Kirk as the hapless teenager, and A-lister Fred MacMurray as