But the thought was that the only way to get the money was to control it and the only way to control it was through copyright. Bambi , based on Felix Salten's work.
So I grew up on R rated movies when I was a kid. So to watch Bambi or Sleeping Beauty I'm like "Hoooo-huuum." I mean, I appreciated the animation but I could never, you know, get behind it because of the level of the intensity of the stories.
Typcast. And each one of them one at a time with Snow White at the lead, they sort of take on the princess complex, this age old idea where unless you're pretty in a Bambi -like waif and a helpless damsel in distress, you're not actually valid.
And it put her out for about three days. She hardly moved. Just moving her arm was agony for three days. It was just awful. But not everything in the forest is awful. I had to throw this in for the Disney talk just because of the Bambi effect of this little guy. We were listening for chimps one day and this little person came out of the forest and just looking around, looked a little bit lost, couldn't find mom and it's just adorable.
Walt Disney Company and they only succeeded from 1939 to about 1945 1939 they released Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and they did Dumbo and Bambi and all those classic films but Walt Disney was constantly challenged with how to keep that animation division afloat he was always basically on the
after the sale of babe ruth in 1919 and that's it it was in 1918 that he was uh he actually played one more year where he didn't win either so the curse of the baby the chris the bambino is a little bit well it's very theatrical thank you dan shaughnessy for that um but uh save for five weeks uh during the time that we lost in 46
And this is in the 1930s. He actually invited Frank Lloyd Wright to come in and talk to the animators about how to draw a better Bambi . What is the connection there?
I got one chapter in the book the title something like 'my aunt is my dog is my cat is my child'. And what we've done in our culture, as we have Bambi -eyed and Disney-fied our culture, and we ascribe anthropomorphistic humanism to animals and so, we have animal rights movement that has eliminated, for example, wearing fur.
get on with it um you know a lot of people are still going after yes thank you a lot of people are still going after uh yankee fans but i'm a little different after breaking the curse of the bambino i believe we should uh let bygones be bygones you know uh diplomatic unilateral talks with our enemies i started a goodwill tour i started to
well for the most part. And then they they-they almost over do it when they do their-their restorations. I'm not crazy about thů some of the super recent ones they put out like "Pinocchio", I think they did a really good job. Some of the earlier versions of "Bambi " that I have seen, "Peter Pan", "Snow White" that are coming to mind, they are cleaned up to a ridiculous degree that it almost looks like artificial. It doesn't look real. It doesn't look-it looks strange for some reason. It's clean, but it's it looks-it doesn't look