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Thumper is a fictional rabbit character from Disney's animated film Bambi (1942). He is known and named for his habit of thumping his left hind foot. The character was an important influence upon the development of the movie Bambi which started production with an adult tone which seemed too serious and uncommercial.
Bambi is a 1942 American animated drama film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures.Loosely based on Felix Salten's 1923 novel Bambi, a Life in the Woods, the production was supervised by David D. Hand, and was directed by a team of sequence directors, including James Algar, Bill Roberts, Norman Wright, Sam Armstrong, Paul Satterfield, and Graham Heid.
Bambi is the title character in Felix Salten's 1923 novel, Bambi, a Life in the Woods, and its sequel, Bambi's Children. The character also appears in Salten's novels Perri and Fifteen Rabbits . Early German-language editions of the novels were illustrated by Hans Bertle.
This real-life Thumper and Bambi moment isn't the first time that two unlikely animals formed a friendship. You've heard the term "fighting like cats and dogs", but this Golden Retriever and ...
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Taking place between Bambi's mother's death and Bambi shown as a young adult buck, the film follows Bambi's relationship with his father, The Great Prince of the Forest, and Bambi's efforts to earn his father's love for him. It was first titled Bambi and the Great Prince, but was renamed Bambi and the Great Prince of the Forest and later Bambi II.
] At night, Day and his traveling companion Lester Hall studied the shooting script to see where they should venture the next day to capture just the right image to accompany such scenes as Bambi's first walk, mouse encounters, and Thumper's environment. [6] Day ultimately swayed Disney, who gave the green light for Bambi to be a white-tail deer.
Tim Davis (born Duane Timston Davis; [4] March 9, 1924 – October 30, 1982 [5]) was an American child actor, perhaps best known for his voice work in the 1942 Disney animated feature film, Bambi, and his performance in the 1940 film of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, in which he plays the older of the two newsboy siblings—the other portrayed by his real-life younger brother, the then popular ...