The idiot below (Jcr11101 - favorite - September 3, 2020) tells us not to read the comments - while making a comment. The film depicts the character Uncle Remus, cheerfully relating to several children, including the film's protagonist, the folk tales of the adventures of anthropomorphic Br'er Rabbit and his enemies, Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear. The story follows seven-year-old Johnny ( Bobby Driscoll) who is visiting his grandmother's plantation for an extended stay. Song of the South is a 1946 American live-action/animated musical drama film directed by Harve Foster and Wilfred Jackson; produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

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Trade show or Comic conventions are really big places to find tons of DVD's that are out of print, or have never been in print. He explains that he does not want to go to the party either, especially since his father will not be there. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses.Whoopi Goldberg Wants Disney to Bring Back 'Song of the South' to Start Conversation About Controversial 1946 Film". Herman Hill in The Pittsburgh Courier felt that Song of the South would "prove of inestimable goodwill in the furthering of interracial relations", and considered criticisms of the film to be "unadulterated hogwash symptomatic of the unfortunate racial neurosis that seems to be gripping so many of our humorless brethren these days. that's life and no amount of tearing down statues to appease cultural marxists will change, it will only weaken our nation.

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However, the travesty is that these tales which are the product of black and indigenous story tellers are being replaced in Disney repertoire by white fairy tales with black faces. On the final day of shooting, Jackson discovered that the scene in which Uncle Remus sings the film's signature song, "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah", had not been properly blocked. Uncle Remus helps Johnny out with the Brer Rabbit stories whose roots go all the way back to the Gambia/Senegal region. According to Valarie Stewart, daughter of Nick Stewart (voice of Br'er Bear in the film), NAACP executive secretary Walter Francis White disliked actress Hattie McDaniel.

Disney claimed that Muse attacked the film because Disney did not choose Muse to play the part of Uncle Remus, which Muse had lobbied for. Fooled by this sanitized portrayal of a segregated and yet magic, cheerful world, most of the comments embrace the idea that "this film is innocent" or that there's "absolutely nothing wrong with it. The animated segments of the film were directed by Wilfred Jackson, while the live-action segments were directed by Harve Foster. When this gentlemen decide to print this copy of the DVD (which he assures me is a very good copy of the film with extras), he told me that he talked with a lawyer about printing it.

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Since this movie takes place after the Civil War, we can see that the emancipation of the slaves and equality did not happen at the same time. Johnny evades being discovered, but Uncle Remus catches up with him, offers him food for his journey, and takes him back to his cabin, where he tells the boy the traditional African-American folktale, " Br'er Rabbit Earns a Dollar a Minute".I grew up in the 90's watching songs like Zippity Doo Dah on Sing-Along-Song tapes but with none of the context of the actual film. At this present time there seems to be an obsession with eliminating parts of our history that does not reflect positively on our past. That evil hatred was just seeping in from the “element” in Hollywood, who claimed to be the victims of hatred and yet, cry out as they strike you!