I had not seen that movie in at least 10 years, I had forgotten the old Disney style and how beautiful it was. His cartoon studio with his brother started in 1923 that would later become the famous Walt Disney Studios.
Snow White was their first film in 1937 and Walt had planned for Bambi to be their second but it ended up being the fourth, partly because of the amount of work that went into the film. Disney even going as far as to have his animators travel to Maine to photograph a specific kind of deer to replace the Roe deer since roe deer are only found in Europe. During production, his team was not so sure of the timeline for the release because they had to adapt the book to a movie and had trouble creating the plotline from a story they claimed didn’t have one to begin with. So many changes were made to adapt the movie from the original text to make it friendlier to a bigger audience.
Yet the film was still met with criticism from staff as well as the viewers. Partly from the hunting community who claimed it portrayed hunters as irresponsible and cruel for starting of forest fires and use of hunting dogs. And overall people had said it was “too emotional for children.” even when it became one of Disney’s best films at the time, with some of the most beautiful animation that is still appreciated today.
