Question 1

True or false: The hunter who kills Bambi’s mother is named Man and appears on screen.

Accepted Answer

False. The hunter is never shown on screen—only implied by sound and imagery. Disney deliberately kept him faceless to symbolize a vague threat.

Question 2

True or false: Bambi’s father, the Great Prince, dies in the film during the forest fire.

Accepted Answer

False. The Great Prince survives and leads Bambi to safety. He is a recurring character, not a casualty of the fire.

Question 3

True or false: Disney animators studied real deer and other animals to make the movements realistic.

Accepted Answer

True. For realism, Disney brought live deer and other forest animals to the studio. Animators even sketched them in motion to capture natural behavior.

Question 4

True or false: Bambi was the first Disney film to use the multiplane camera for deep forest scenes.

Accepted Answer

False. The multiplane camera debuted in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Bambi used it famously for depth, but it wasn’t the first.

Question 5

True or false: Bambi was nearly voiced by a young boy, but they used animal sounds instead.

Accepted Answer

False. Bambi never speaks in the film; he only makes animal sounds. The child actor who inspired the character never recorded dialogue.

Question 6

True or false: Bambi was originally a novel written by an Austrian author, not a Disney original.

Accepted Answer

True. Bambi, A Life in the Woods was written by Felix Salten in 1923. Disney adapted it into the 1942 film, but the story predates the movie.

Question 7

True or false: The film Bambi was banned in Nazi Germany because the book was seen as political allegory.

Accepted Answer

True. Felix Salten was Jewish, and his novel was interpreted as a metaphor for Jewish persecution. The Nazis banned both book and film.

Question 8

True or false: The voice actor for young Bambi was a girl, not a boy.

Accepted Answer

True. Donnie Dunagan, a boy, voiced young Bambi. However, many assume it was a girl due to his high-pitched voice—common in child actors then.

Bambi Trivia Questions