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Disney first began to negotiate with Harris ' family for the rights in 1939, and by late summer of that year he already had one of his storyboard artists summarize the more promising tales and draw up four boards ' worth of story sketches.
In November 1940, Disney visited the Harris ' home in Atlanta.
He told Variety that he wanted to " get an authentic feeling of Uncle Remus country so we can do as faithful a job as possible to these stories.
" Roy Oliver Disney had misgivings about the project, doubting that it was " big enough in caliber and natural draft " to warrant a budget over $ 1 million and more than twenty-five minutes of animation, but in June 1944, Walt hired Southern-born writer Dalton Reymond to write the screenplay, and he met frequently with King Vidor, whom he was trying to interest in directing the live-action sequences.

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