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

Date: 1942

## The fact

Bambi opened in 1942, a feature [Disney](/people/walt-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/ (American Film Institute). Independent locator: Britannica — Walt Disney at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walt-Disney (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Context

Man as hunter is mixed (fear versus conservation). Not a twin of White Wilderness fakes. Dumbo 1941 is another title. Forest fire as spectacle is neighbourhood, not an extra Fact. Archival locator: AFI Catalog of Feature Films at https://catalog.afi.com/ (American Film Institute). Independent locator: Britannica — Walt Disney at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walt-Disney (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

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.

## Evidence and sources

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. Archival locator: AFI Catalog of Feature Films at https://catalog.afi.com/ (American Film Institute). Independent locator: Britannica — Walt Disney at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walt-Disney (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: AFI Catalog of Feature Films (https://catalog.afi.com/; American Film Institute).

## Significance

A canonical wildlife-feeling feature is an education path. High confidence on the date. Later hunter-lobby complaints are reception. Archival locator: AFI Catalog of Feature Films at https://catalog.afi.com/ (American Film Institute). Independent locator: Britannica — Walt Disney at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walt-Disney (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## What is established and what is not

Established: 13 August 1942 U.S. release under Disney producing. Not established: a unique conservation coefficient. Not 1958 True-Life. Archival locator: AFI Catalog of Feature Films at https://catalog.afi.com/ (American Film Institute). Independent locator: Britannica — Walt Disney at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walt-Disney (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

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. The attached driver is edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## People

- Walt Disney: https://factrail.ai/people/walt-disney

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://catalog.afi.com/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walt-Disney

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/wd-bambi