![]() ![]() Disney would later adapt Salten's squirrel story Perri into a True-Life Fantasy in 1957, and draw inspiration from Salten's The Hound of Florence when creating the 1959 comedy The Shaggy Dog. Ultimately concluding that the material would be too difficult to translate into a live-action film, Franklin sold the rights to Walt Disney in 1938. Bambi arrived in theaters during the summer of 1942. MGM filmmaker Sidney Franklin acquired the movie rights to the novel in 1933. ![]() An English-translation was published in the United States by Simon and Schuster in 1928. Bambi: A Life in the Woods was first published in Austria in 1923. Walt Disney chose to soften it into a more palatable and child-friendly walk in the wilderness.įelix Salten was the pen name of Hungarian born author and journalist Siegmund Salzmann, who spent the vast majority of his life living and working in Vienna, Austria. ![]() Make no mistake, Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten is not about benign forest creatures and twitterpation it is a starkly realistic interpretation of the natural world. The death of Bambi's mother is considered to be one of the harsher moments in Disney cinema, yet it generally pales in comparison to some of the intense material found in the novel that inspired the Disney animated feature of Bambi. In this column, Guest Blogger Jeff Pepper of 2719 Hyperion provides a fascinating examination of the literary source of the film. This month, The Walt Disney Family Museum celebrates Walt Disney’s brilliant and timeless 1942 animated feature, Bambi. ![]()
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