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 Song of the South 

What grade would you give this film?
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 Song of the South 
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Song of the South is a 1946 feature film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film is based on the Uncle Remus cycle of stories by Joel Chandler Harris. The live actors provide a sentimental frame story, in which Uncle Remus relates the folk tales of the adventures of Br'er Rabbit and his friends. These anthropomorphic animal characters appear in animation. The hit song from the film was "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah", which won the 1947 Academy Award for Best Song and is frequently used as part of Disney's montage themes, and which has become widely-used in popular culture. The film inspired the Disney theme park attraction Splash Mountain.

The film has never been released in its entirety on home video in the USA, because of content which Disney executives believe would be construed by some as racist toward black people, and is thus subject to much rumor. Some portions of this film have been issued on VHS and DVD as part of either compilations or special editions of Disney films.


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I heard from my aunt this is a great film, but I have never been able to see it because the US banned it from being released, but I have heard that it is now coming out to DVD next year :grin:

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Why did they ban it?

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Mr. X wrote:
Why did they ban it?


racism.

The narrator is black, I guess, and he is uneducated. Apparently it perpetuates the idea that all black people are stupid, or something like that.


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Mr. X wrote:
Why did they ban it?


racism, but if you watch the film, it isn't rascist at all, in fact a black man is presented as a hero.

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