Q 01/05

Disney's Bambi is based on a 1923 novel by which Austrian author?

A) Stefan Zweig

B) Hermann Hesse

C) Karl May

D) Felix Salten

Answer · why

D) Felix Salten

Bambi, a Life in the Woods was first serialised in Vienna's Neue Freie Presse in 1922.

Q 02/05

In which year was Bambi released, its world premiere taking place in London that August?

A) 1937

B) 1942

C) 1946

D) 1950

Answer · why

B) 1942

The New Gallery Cinema premiere came on 9 August; the US release followed on 13 August.

Q 03/05

Which producer sold Walt Disney the film rights to Salten's novel in April 1937?

A) Sidney Franklin

B) David O. Selznick

C) Samuel Goldwyn

D) Hal Roach

Answer · why

A) Sidney Franklin

Disney intended it to be his second animated feature after Snow White, but the realistic deer proved so hard to animate that four other features got t...

Q 04/05

Where in the story's forest was Disney intending Bambi to sit in the studio's release order?

A) Fourth, after Dumbo

B) First, before Snow White

C) Second feature, right after Snow White

D) Tenth, after Cinderella

Answer · why

C) Second feature, right after Snow White

Story work began in 1938 and production proper on 17 August 1939.

Q 05/05

Salten's novel is about a roe deer. Why did Disney switch Bambi to a white-tailed deer?

A) Roe deer were harder to animate

B) It was more recognised across the United States

C) Roe deer are not native to Maine

D) Walt preferred the antlers

Answer · why

B) It was more recognised across the United States

Artist Jake Day spent weeks sketching and photographing deer in the forests of Vermont and Maine.