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Walter Elias “Walt” Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion.
Disney is particularly noted for being a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most famous fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, a character for which Disney himself was the original voice. He has been awarded four honorary Academy Awards and has won twenty-two competitive Academy Awards out of fifty-nine nominations, including a record four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual. He also won seven Emmy Awards. He is the namesake for Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the United States, as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney, Disneyland Paris, and Disneyland Hong Kong.
Disney died of lung cancer in Burbank, California, on December 15, 1966. The following year, construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. His brother Roy Disney inaugurated the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971.
The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) (commonly referred to as Disney) is the largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, the company was reincorporated as Walt Disney Productions in 1929. Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and travel. Taking on its current name in 1986, The Walt Disney Company expanded its existing operations and also started divisions focused upon theatre, radio, publishing, and online media. In addition, it has created new divisions of the company in order to market more mature content than it typically associates with its flagship family-oriented brands.
The company is best known for the products of its film studio, the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, today one of the largest and best-known studios in Hollywood. Disney also owns and operates the ABC broadcast television network; cable television networks such as Disney Channel, ESPN, and ABC Family; publishing, merchandising, and theatre divisions; and owns and licenses 11 theme parks around the world. On January 23, 2006, it was announced that Disney would purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion. The deal was finalized on May 5. On December 31, 2009, Disney Company acquired the Marvel Entertainment, Inc. for $4.24 billion. The company has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May 6, 1991. An early and well-known cartoon creation of the company, Mickey Mouse, is the official mascot of The Walt Disney Company.
This is a good reduction of the movie. Bambi's mother's death is a bit cryptic, but perhaps that's just as well. I remember being terrorized by the movie when I saw it at age six. I'm interested in finding the original written by Felix Salten, if it's available.
No recordaba de que iba exactamente la historia (Ni que a Bambi se le consideraba el principe del bosque al ser su padre el rey del bosque), pero me agrado leerlo. Muy bonitas ilustraciones.
Oh how many ways can you ruin Bambi, let us count the ways....
First of all this is more like one of those film books that was made so fans of the movie could also read. As such this isn't targeted for the youngest of readers but for those who are actually into smallish type of novels as it tries to replay the whole movie. Along with the aforementioned novel-size book it is also within an unusually large book that is awkward to hold and read from thus making it a struggle to deal with.
From there you have plenty of mistakes such as Bambi provides his name for the crowd (which Flower was mysteriously at) instead of his mouth and deer having paws when they specifically have hooves. The little fawn also goes to the meadow for the first time against his mother's wishes and with Thumper instead, which is truly against the movie to begin with as well as the original book. And who has heard that deer need to fetch food for their young and mates?
As if this wasn't enough to rankle me and get under my skin the coloring of the artwork was deeply disgusting. The opossums were blue, the mouse was purple and the Great Prince looked an ugly olive green color that was only eased in the picture of the fire which made him look like he was finally colored right.
Again this is a horrid book and I am so glad that I wasn't subjected to it when I was young. Never pass this one on to the children!