Sunday Night at the Movies at Raceology: The Song of The South (1946) Controversial Disney Classic




Hello all, I am experimenting with a Sunday Night at the Movies feature as well, to feature some of the interesting and lesser known movies on here.

This night we'll be looking at The Song of The South, a movie produced by Disney in 1946, and famous for its song Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah, which is considered a classic song, and it won the 1947 Academy Award for Best Original Song.  The movie is a mix of mostly live action and some animation. It is based on the collection of stories of Uncle Remus as collected by Joel Chandler Harris. It stars the black actor James Baskett as Uncle Remus. It is set in the Southern United States during the Reconstruction era after the civil war, and the abolition of slavery.

Seven year old Johnny comes to stay at his grandma's plantation, and befriends Uncle Remus, and learns from his stories so as to adapt to living on the plantation.  That's a basic summary of the film.

Over the years this film has been considered to be racist and offensive due to its 'stereotypical' portrayal of African Americans, and the portrayal of the plantation as being idyllic. Disney has not released a home video version of this film due to its controversial nature. The music and dialogue has been made available by Disney however, and released several times.  Some of the cartoons have also been released in various media.  The film did see release in various European and Asian countries of Laserdisc and VHS.

In Japan the film is in the public domain, due to copyright law.

 Having been in Japan recently, can we say that you guys are watching or will watch this in Japan when you go?  In any case, here I present you with this film.  It is a decent old Disney film, again targeting a children's audience, and honestly I did not feel that it was particularly offensive in any way to Blacks. Baskett received an Academy honorary award for his portrayal of Uncle Remus.






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