| Director: David Hand | Producer: Walt Disney |
| Script: Larry Morey, Perce Pearce | Animators: Preston Blair, John Bradbury, Mark Davis, et al. |
| Music:Edward Plumb et al. | Cinematography: Maxwell Morgan |
Walt Disney Pictures, 70 min. Release Date: Aug. 13, 1942.
| Character | Voice /Actor |
| Bambi | Hardie Albright/John Sutherland |
| Bambi's Mother | Paula Winslowe |
| Thumper | Peter Behn/Tim Davis |
| Flower | Stan Alexander/Sterling Holloway |
| Faline | Cammie King/Ann Gillis |
| Bambi's Father | Fred Shields |
| Owl | Will Wright |
Never before had Disney artists studied nature so closely. They knew that Bambi's story could only play against a backdrop that was completely credible, and that the characters themselves had to give the impression of being real animals. Caricature, exaggeration, and stylization were encouraged, but only as embellishments of reality.--Leonard Maltin, Of Mice and Magic
[Bambi's] ideological theme paralleled that in Pinocchio: the individual's quest for security, self-definition, and family coherence, this time within a threatening natural order. . . . Conceived near the end of the Depression, Bambi took shape as another tale of a vulnerable protagonist whose virtue and bravery led him to surmount all difficulties thrown at him.--Steven Watts, The Magic Kingdom
When one lets go of the realist presumption in Bambi, it becomes surreal more than real. The "truth" Bambi's creators obviously sought to depict does not dissipate into a fiction, it becomes surrealistic; it becomes the "Truth," a decontextualized realism that reveals the pious warpages of how we construct the "real."--David Payne