Well...as long as I am here....
King, you have hit dead on. The Auntie movement has its modern roots in the 19th century, around 1840. However the German [Austrian?] author of Bambi was militantly anti-hunting, and his illustrated book was an international best seller between WW1 and WW2.
Disney wonderfully adapted the story to antimation, and the rest is the history which you cite. Walt set out on that project with an anti-hunting agenda, which the company keeps to this day.
Most interestly, in a recent conversation with tw, of this board, he did a survey in his workplace some years ago, to find out how many folks still had rural roots. That is, relatives or close people who still earned a l;iving from the land. Out of 173, exactly two people could claim that remaining tie.
He said when he spoke of cooking rabbits or hunting doves, both good ol' country traditions, that the employees looked at him like a man with two heads. Between the vastly changed cultural matrix, the unprecendented moulding of it by entertainment propaganda, and the desire of the prosperous classes for their own continued comfort and security against the un-prosperous classes, then that the world which we once knew and valued for its goodness is a fading shade.
The new electronic world will be as different as a two-horse farm wagon is from an eight-wheeled tractor. The same land [sorta], but a new civilization: for better or for worse. As a fellow named Wonko the Sane usta say around here: "I'm glad I'm old, so I won't have to live to watch all that buxxshixx." :~`)
