Posted on 03/16/2020 8:35:32 AM PDT by rktman
Disney will not be adding the 1946 animation Song Of The South to its Disney+ streaming service because it is “not appropriate in today’s world,” the company’s executive chairman Bob Iger said this week.
Iger made the remarks during Disney’s annual shareholder’s meeting on Wednesday when he was asked a question as to whether the full Disney library will be available on the service.
“I’ve felt, for as long as I’ve been CEO, that Song of the South – even with a disclaimer – was just not appropriate in today’s world,” he said. “Given the depictions in some of those films, to bring them out today without some form or another, without offending people. So we’ve decided not to do that.”
The film, which is nearly 75 years old, has become highly controversial in recent years for its depiction of black Americans working on a plantation in Georgia after the Civil War.
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I last saw Song of the South in a theater in the early 1970s. Since then it has been banned.
Sale of the the DVD was also banned in the US but you could order it over the internet under a fake movie title. The website made it clear what you were getting with a wink/ wink type of sales pitch.
I got a copy from Japan where it was released into public domain. Showed to my woman and my daughter, both of whom had always heard it was pretty racist.
They were amazed and mad that they had been lied to. It is a very softhearted show, the story is good, and the black characters were universally decent, god fearing and kind. Black and white kids ran around playing together. And at the moment of high drama where a little white boy was on his death bed after an accident, everyone was praying, Uncle Remus came up and his stories woke the kid up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex0Da3n20mY
This movie is an inkblot test. If you see racism, you are the A-hole.
For those who haven’t seen it. Every back person in the film is of the highest moral character, brimming with innate decency.
The revolutionary socialists SJW problem with it is that blacks aren’t being beaten, the old woman plantation owner is a kind old white lady. And everyone seems to get along.
I can still hear my father reading that to me
Poor man
Every night, just about
I got a copy from this website. Great quality and service. It’s from Japan but all in English, and plays in US players. You won’t even know.
But Disney released it in Japan on VHS. In Japan that meant it became public domain after a few years. Totally legal.
Do yourself a favor and get a copy.
Robin Hood is even more outdated culturally. Will they not stream that either?
I have it on something that used bring a lot of money secound hand.
The Japanese Laserdisc (its English language, except Japanese subs during the songs)
Guess Dumbo’s out too!
Uncle Remus was a depiction of an actual man, one who captivated children with his wonderful stories. All people should tell his stores with pride, and list him among those literary giants we honor. I have at least one book that is full of his stories that someone had the good sense to record. His stories are funny, fun, and teach good morals. The book was written in such a way as to reproduce his dialect. As such, it is difficult to read, but worth the effort.
I have a film series call Mickey McGuire from the 20s-30s (this is early Mickey Rooney kids komedies)
It has a couple of black kids but the one name Hambone is Mickey Best Friend - yea he may be the butt of a lot of the sight jokes but there is nothing offensive to blacks in these short films that I can see (but hey im prolly blinded by White Privledge so what do I know)
“...secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy... censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, “This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,” the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything — you can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him” John Lyle in Revolt in 2100 by Robert A. Heinlein
Ban Shirley Temple’s “The Littlest Rebel” and “The Little Colonel”. They show the slaves being treated nicely.
Little Rascals/Our Gang. All good stuff.
As a fan of classic movies I'd like to see it and as a fan of free speech I'm pretty sure the stereotypes wouldn't contaminate me. But, if I were a Disney stockholder or executive I'd say no, not in this environment.
:-)
JOEL Chandler Harris
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