 Sidney Franklin originally initiated "Bambi" as a film project in  1933, envisioning it as a live action film. He had even gone to the  stage of recording Margaret Sullivan and Victor Jorys voices for  the soundtrack. Eventually he realized that the technology simply  wasnt adequate enough to make the film. After seeing "Snow White  and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937), it dawned on Franklin that there was  someone who could realize "Bambi" as a movie. So he contacted Walt  Disney who immediately leapt at the idea of working on the project.  Disney started work on the film in 1936, though he was also  developing "Fantasia", "Dumbo" and "Pinocchio" at the same time. All  this explains why there is a dedication in the films opening  credits "To Sidney A. Franklin 