Where Have You Gone, Uncle Remus?

The American Thinker ^ | November 19th, 2006 | Jewell Atkins

[digger48]

Geez....7 out of 10 of those movies on the MSNBC site, are among my favorites. Blazing Saddles is one of the few (9) DVDs I own

I guess that's why I could never be a Liberal

[sportutegrl]

I guess Disney doesn't want to get stuck to that tarbaby. Oh well. We can still see the characters from Song of the South at Splash Mountain in the Magic Kingdom at WDW. Some of them will even pose for photos and sign autographs.

[Repeal The 17th]

I have "Song of the South" on VHS.
Zip a dee doo dah, Zip a dee ay,
My, oh my, what a wonderful day.

[John Valentine]

Here's where I bought my copy. I believe this to be a genuine Disney authorized version. Its formatted for TV, unfortunately. I'd rather have a version in theatrical format.

This company offers lots of classic movies on DVD.

http://www.efilmic.com/special.asp?SOTS=EISNER

[popdonnelly]

Song of the South is a genuine Disney classic. Saw it when I was a kid, loved it.

[John Valentine]

So sorry. It looks like eFilmic has pulled Song of the South from its catalog.

[John Valentine]

OK, I'm wrong again. Even though they don't list in in the catalog, its still available. It is only made by offer to subsribers to their on-line newsletter.

[wita]

DONALD S. BUSTANY President, L.A. Chapter, American- Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Los Angeles, July 14, 1993

Just another hyphenated arab.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I have a dubbed off copy of Song of the South on VHS.
I also have several Bugs Bunney "incorrect" cartoons, namely the one where he is running from the Black hunter who is going to "catch me a rabbit", till Bugs pulls out a pair of dice.

Also the one where the hillbilly dog is trying to make it as a door to door salesman in Africa.

What ever happened to BOSCO?

[wideminded]

My second grade teacher read us Uncle Remus stories in dialect. You can tell how long ago that was by the fact that no one complained. Nevertheless I thought Mr. Iger gave a good answer.

[Disambiguator]

Nevertheless I thought Mr. Iger gave a good answer.

Well, I don't. I think it's corporate cowardice. He's just trying to head off a potential visit from the Revrunn Jacksuunnnnn.

[rogue yam]

I have a recording of Sun Ra and his Arkestra doing "Zip A Dee Doo Dah" at a concert in Austria in 1989. They totally "Tom" it up and it is hilarious, it's a great song, and it rocks. Some people just have no sense of humor, I suppose. I loved the Uncle Remus tales as a child, and I loved "Song of the South" when I saw it as a child years and years ago.

[rogue yam]

My second grade teacher read us Uncle Remus stories in dialect. You can tell how long ago that was by the fact that no one complained.

Our elementary school librarian did that for us back in the mid-1960s. We loved it and no, no one complained.

[Mogollon]

Disney is now a leftist corporation. Walt Disney, on the other hand, was a conservative.

[MrLee]

My DVD copy is from the Japanese laser disc. Looks fine to me.

[Fiji Hill]

Ironically, according to Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley, in his book Hollywood Party: How Comunism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930's and 1940's (Forum, 1998), Song of the South was co-written by Maurice Rapf, a Communist, and Morton Grant, a leftist.

[dawn53]

Just wondering, in this era of PC, is Joel Chandler Harris' home still a tourist attraction in Atlanta?

[redhead]

When my sister was small, mom and dad gave her a copy of the "Tales of Uncle Remus" book by Joel Chandler Harris. It was a fat book in a red cloth binding. We READ that book over and over to each other. Lately, I was able to find a copy at amazon.com, and I ordered it immediately, before it disappeared forever down the memory hole.

[gondramB]

I would just like to point out that Disney is perfectly willing to sell this movie (which I love) they sell it in the UK and they sell it in Japan. Its the PC environment that's the problem in the U.S. not Disney's unwillingness to sell it.