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Walt fell in love with the Song-dynasty inspired backgrounds Wong drew and hired him to create beautiful watercolor backgrounds. Walt was struggling with the look of Bambi, and Wong stepped up to offer his services. The Chinese-born Wong was a landscape artist, working at the studio drawing the in-between sketches that make characters come to life. The other notable name of the time was Tyrus Wong. He promoted her on the spot, and she became Disney’s first female animator! But Walt himself was very impressed by her terrifying panther-inspired sketches of Man’s hunting dogs. Retta Scott started out as a storyboard artist, one of the few roles women were allowed to have at the studio at the time. The production of Bambi also introduced two very important names at the studio. I’m sure that guy’s office smelled delightful. Rico Lebrun even dissected a dead fawn and photographed it in varying stages of decomposition to see how its muscles and bones worked. Real fawns and other animals were brought into the studio so the animators could study them, until the studio had their own little rescue center. They took frequent trips to zoos so they could watch the animals’ behavior. They vowed to improve on this and make the deer in Bambi look and move like real deer. Walt and his team were never really satisfied by the look of the deer in Snow White, saying they looked like flour sacks. Unfortunately, with the technology of the time, such a task proved impossible. Franklin aimed to adapt the story in live-action.

In 1936, Salten sold the film rights to his novel to Sidney Franklin of Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. That book was a lot, that’s all I’m saying. It’s not the weirdest choice for a family film the company’s ever made, but by god is it close, with vivid descriptions of spilled entrails and ripped-out guts punctuated by Bambi falling into what feels like clinical depression. It took a grim, gory look at the life of a roe deer in the Austrian woods. The original novel wasn’t a kid’s book by any means. No link this time- this one’s not public domain. Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten. Unusually for a Disney film, Bambi is based off a novel for adults. All photos are from Kiss Them Goodbye unless otherwise stated. The opinions expressed therein reflect those of the authors and are not to be viewed as factual documentation. The authors’ claim no ownership of this material. Any material, including images and/or video footage, are property of their respective companies, unless stated otherwise.

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