Song Of The South Disney Movie

It was disney s first film to feature live actors who provide a sentimental frame story for the animated segments.

Song of the south disney movie. Song of the south dvd disney movie brand new and sealed rare brer rabbit uncle remus zip a dee doo dah song based on the uncle remus stories about the ingenious bunny brer rabbit using live action and animation. This continues disney s longstanding trend of not releasing the movie long accused of being racist onto home entertainment platforms. It is based on the collection of uncle remus stories as adapted by joel chandler harris and stars james baskett as uncle remus. Song of the south is a 1946 american live action animated musical drama film produced by walt disney and released by rko radio pictures.

Following the separation of his parents a young boy goes to live in the american south. Song of the south was walt disney s first musical drama and in fact all but five minutes of the film contains music. The difficult legacy of disney s most shocking movie the 1946 film won t be showing up on disney but its insidious racism serves as an important reminder of the company s dark. I acknowledge that some of the scenes are ignorant towards the plight of african americans in the civil war and reconstruction era but i can t imagine a child who loves this movie coming away feeling racial prejudice or insensitivity towards african americans.

While the popular splash mountain attraction found at disneyland and walt disney world. Song of the south is a beautiful piece of film art. Since its final theatrical release in 1986 disney has largely tried to forget that song of the south exists. Song of the south is the movie that disney would like to forget.

Song of the south. Nine songs made it into the final film from the academy award winning zip a dee doo dah to the spirituals sung by the hall johnson choir. With music by allie wrubel and ly. Everyone knows the tune zip a dee doo dah but few realize that this song is central to th.