# Bambi and classic films -Motion picture rating system **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 25, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bambi-and-classic-films-motion-picture-rating-system/544515 "2010-06-25T18:26:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![blinkingblinking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@blinkingblinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinkingblinking)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bambi-and-classic-films-motion-picture-rating-system/544515/1 "2010-06-25T18:26:13Z")
Was showing Bambi to my very young children the other day. It has some pretty scary stuff for small children. I read somewhere once about they were classifying old movies by today’s Motion picture rating system and many old movies which are officially ‘G’ were re-rated. Anyone know where I can find this? Bambi would certainly get a ‘PG’. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bambi-and-classic-films-motion-picture-rating-system/544515/2 "2010-06-25T19:47:50Z")
Kids back then weren’t wimps. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bambi-and-classic-films-motion-picture-rating-system/544515/3 "2010-06-25T19:49:53Z")
Well, with _Bambi_, there’s no need to speculate, because the film was re-released many times in the theaters, including after the MPAA rating system came out. According to the IMDB, it was rated G in these re-releases. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bambi-and-classic-films-motion-picture-rating-system/544515/4 "2010-06-25T19:53:21Z")
I’ll say. You know what that boy in Old Yeller had to do himself? ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bambi-and-classic-films-motion-picture-rating-system/544515/5 "2010-06-25T20:45:56Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > Kids back then weren’t wimps. Well there was no pussification style of parenting, unlike today. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bambi-and-classic-films-motion-picture-rating-system/544515/6 "2010-06-25T20:56:31Z")
My dad still remembers being traumatized by Bambi, and that was 68 years ago. (He would have been five at the time.) I don’t think he was a wimp either. Wasn’t there a cartoon about this … maybe Animaniacs? … where the mother had to take her hysterical kid to go meet the cartoon deer who played Bambi’s mother, just to show it was just a movie. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bambi-and-classic-films-motion-picture-rating-system/544515/7 "2010-06-25T21:02:02Z")
In general, films released under the Motion Picture Production Code prior to the MPAA ratings were set up are rated G. The Hays Office was much too strict to let anything get past it that wasn’t G. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bambi-and-classic-films-motion-picture-rating-system/544515/8 "2010-06-25T21:02:37Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > Wasn’t there a cartoon about this … maybe Animaniacs? … where the mother had to take her hysterical kid to go meet the cartoon deer who played Bambi’s mother, just to show it was just a movie. Yep. IIRC, it was [Slappy Squirrel](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.jadis.demon.co.uk/pictures/slaps.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.jadis.demon.co.uk/pictures/slaps.htm&h=220&w=300&sz=10&tbnid=Tgi5ypuQSNQlhM:&tbnh=85&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dslappy%2Bsquirrel&hl=en&usg=__b1aeaAfOldWV2k9HfclaJNjAME8=&sa=X&ei=GBklTJ7UEIT68Ab1yd3KDw&ved=0CDoQ9QEwCQ). She had to calm [Skippy](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_n-hm9gvEHbk/SXfPeAKM0mI/AAAAAAAACig/6fSz6M3OQkw/s400/skippy.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![blinkingblinking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@blinkingblinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinkingblinking)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bambi-and-classic-films-motion-picture-rating-system/544515/9 "2010-06-25T21:54:34Z")
Hello- I read somewhere once about they were classifying old movies by today’s Motion picture rating system and many old movies which are officially ‘G’ were re-rated. Anyone know where I can find this? ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bambi-and-classic-films-motion-picture-rating-system/544515/10 "2010-06-25T22:44:47Z")
Just don’t read them the original book “Bambi: A Life in the Forest.” I had a nightmare about that at age 38. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bambi-and-classic-films-motion-picture-rating-system/544515/11 "2010-06-26T02:06:32Z")
Only three months from deer season… ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bambi-and-classic-films-motion-picture-rating-system/544515/12 "2010-06-26T02:14:09Z")
No, you’re thinking of [Bambi Meets Godzilla](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAVYYe87b9w). ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bambi-and-classic-films-motion-picture-rating-system/544515/13 "2010-06-26T02:14:41Z")
> [@blinkingblinking](#): > > Was showing Bambi to my very young children the other day. It has some pretty scary stuff for small children. I read somewhere once about they were classifying old movies by today’s Motion picture rating system and many old movies which are officially ‘G’ were re-rated. Anyone know where I can find this? Bambi would certainly get a ‘PG’. > [@blinkingblinking](#): > > Hello- I read somewhere once about they were classifying old movies by today’s Motion picture rating system and many old movies which are officially ‘G’ were re-rated. Anyone know where I can find this? Is there a reason that you’re repeating yourself? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bambi-and-classic-films-motion-picture-rating-system/544515/14 "2010-06-26T09:36:12Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Is there a reason that you’re repeating yourself? Maybe it has something to do with the username? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bambi-and-classic-films-motion-picture-rating-system/544515/15 "2010-06-26T14:02:21Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > Kids back then weren’t wimps. I’m not so sure kids today are totally wimpy. > [@In\_Winnipeg](#): > > Well there was no pussification style of parenting, unlike today. Not as much, but it existed. Have you read the opening to the Voyage of the Dawn Treader? It describes some pretty wimpy parents and was written in the early 1950’s. My wife and I recently saw The Princess and the Frog. We thought it got a bit freaky for kids and it’s new. I also think Spirited Away, a relatively recent movie, is quite intense at parts. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bambi-and-classic-films-motion-picture-rating-system/544515/16 "2010-06-26T14:53:42Z")
Recently watched the original version of _The Italian Job_ (1969). Lots of shooting, cars going over cliffs in flames, women in lingerie, implicit kinky sex. Still bears a G rating! ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bambi-and-classic-films-motion-picture-rating-system/544515/17 "2010-06-26T15:14:03Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > Kids back then weren’t wimps. Yes. And parents tended not to be overprotective namby-pamby assholes, either. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bambi-and-classic-films-motion-picture-rating-system/544515/18 "2010-06-27T23:14:38Z")
> [@MTCicero](#): > > Yes. And parents tended not to be overprotective namby-pamby assholes, either. Touche. Actually, all the kids I knew could tell that a cartoon _wasn’t real life_! I guess we all must have just been smarter than the average, or something. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bambi-and-classic-films-motion-picture-rating-system/544515/19 "2010-06-28T02:55:37Z")
> [@In\_Winnipeg](#): > > Touche. > > Actually, all the kids I knew could tell that a cartoon _wasn’t real life_! > I guess we all must have just been smarter than the average, or something. Exactly. Honestly, I really think that nowadays, nine times out of ten, when parents have kids they must excise their balls (eggs, in the ladies’ case) and fucking incinerate those fuckers, never to be seen or heard from again. That’s right: Parents today have _no balls_. Much to the detriment of both their kids and society at large. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bambi-and-classic-films-motion-picture-rating-system/544515/20 "2010-06-28T04:39:39Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I also think Spirited Away, a relatively recent movie, is quite intense at parts. That’s a foreign film. Their animation has much different standards… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bambi-and-classic-films-motion-picture-rating-system/544515.md?page=2)