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Walt Disney had long wanted to make a film based on the Uncle Remus storybook, but it wasn't until the mid-1940s that he had found a way to give the stories an adequate film equivalent, in scope and fidelity.

" I always felt that Uncle Remus should be played by a living person ," Disney is quoted as saying, " as should also the young boy to whom Harris ' old Negro philosopher relates his vivid stories of the Briar Patch.

Several tests in previous pictures, especially in The Three Caballeros, were encouraging in the way living action and animation could be dovetailed.

Finally, months ago, we ' took our foot in hand ,' in the words of Uncle Remus, and jumped into our most venturesome but also more pleasurable undertaking.