Bambi - A Masterpiece from the Golden Age
Released: August 9, 1942
Original Theatrical Poster Release
Based upon the Viennese author Felix Salton's book of the same name, Disney was approached by MGM director, Sidney Franklin, about producing an animated film. Franklin had previously purchased the rights to the story in 1932 but could not seem move the project along at MGM. Walt was very interested in the story and once Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs were nearly complete in late 1936, Walt Disney acquired the rights from Franklin and began production and collaboration on Bambi as early as the spring of 1937 and a more earnest progression into production around the summer of 1939.
Bambi has proven to be one of the more successful features from golden age. With a total budget of $858,000 for production, Bambi has went on to gross to date approximately $268,000,000 worldwide.
As a celebration of the film, I thought I would share a couple of production drawings from the film. One of things that I have found very interesting was the level of craftsmanship in the creation of the drawings, cels, production backgrounds and concept art from the film. In a previous post on Bambi, I shared a story about my first cel setup from the film of Bambi and his mother walking in the forest. The level of detail that the artist put into such tiny cels drawings for these shots was remarkable considering how small the characters were in the film. Just look at the drawing of Bambi and level of detail in the character for an image that is physically two inches square! Walt Disney took the realism with animation to a whole new level.
Original production drawing, colored pencil and graphite on 16 field animation paperArtist: Disney Studio, unknown
Original production drawing, colored pencil and graphite on 16 field animation paperArtist: Disney Studio, unknown
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Original production Cel Setup, Courvoisier studio prepared setupArtist: Various Disney Studio, unknown.
Happy 80th Anniversary to Bambi!
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