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Bambi (1942) is released as a feature about forest animals, hunting, and fire, a distinct titled work from Pinocchio and Dumbo

Bambi opened in 1942, a feature Disney produced from Felix Salten, with slow animal acting and a hunter’s unseen violence. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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Bambi opened in 1942, a feature Disney produced from Felix Salten, with slow animal acting and a hunter’s unseen violence. He did not write the 1923 novel. Education here is a public feeling for wildlife, distinct from later True-Life cameras. War-year release shrank the first run. Archival locator: AFI Catalog of Feature Films at https://catalog.afi.com/ (opens in a new tab) (American Film Institute). Independent locator: Britannica — Walt Disney at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walt-Disney (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Context

Man as hunter is mixed (fear versus conservation). Dumbo 1941 is another title. Forest fire as spectacle is neighbourhood, not an extra Fact.

Shared responsibility is part of Bambi (1942) is released as a feature about forest animals, hunting, and fire, a distinct titled work from Pinocchio and Dumbo. Naming Walt Disney does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1942-08-13 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Why it matters

A canonical wildlife-feeling feature is an education path. High confidence on the date. Later hunter-lobby complaints are reception.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Walt Disney

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.36 · verified

    He produced Bambi from Salten. Animal-study artists drew; the war delayed and cut markets. Direct producing.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.AFI Catalog of Feature FilmsAmerican Film Institute · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Walt DisneyEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

AFI Catalog records Bambi 1942. Britannica independently places it in the early-feature run. D23 history lists the title. No unique hunting-license series is attached.

Established: 13 August 1942 U.S. release under Disney producing. Not established: a unique conservation coefficient. Not 1958 True-Life.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. True-Life staging is a later series; this is a drawn feature. Mixed effects of Bambi (1942) is released as a feature about forest animals, hunting, and fire, a distinct titled work from Pinocchio and Dumbo are separate paths.

The contribution type is direct. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorWalt Disney
  2. contributed toFactBambi (1942) is released as a feature about forest animals, hunting, and fire, a distinct titled work from Pinocchio and Dumbo
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Bambi (1942) is released as a feature about forest animals, hunting, and fire, a distinct titled work from Pinocchio and Dumbo. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/wd-bambi

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Accessed 16 October 2026.

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