Song of the South [1946]

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There are a number of in-joke references to Song of the South in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. One of the Toons seen in this film is Br'er Bear. Also, a glimpse of the Tar Baby can be glimpsed (seen in the Toontown scene outside the left window of Eddie Valiant's car). Toy Story (1995) • A Bug's Life (1998) • Toy Story 2 (1999) · Monsters, Inc. (2001) • Finding Nemo (2003) • The Incredibles (2004) • Cars (2006) • Ratatouille (2007) • WALL-E (2008) • Up (2009) • Toy Story 3 (2010) • Cars 2 (2011) • Brave (2012) • Monsters University (2013) • Inside Out (2015) • The Good Dinosaur (2015) • Finding Dory (2016) • Cars 3 (2017) • Coco (2017) • Incredibles 2 (2018) • Toy Story 4 (2019) • Onward (2020) • Soul (2020) • Luca (2021) • Turning Red (2022) • Lightyear (2022) • Elemental (2023)

Johnny • Uncle Remus • Ginny Favers • Toby • Sally • Grandmother Doshy • Aunt Tempy • John • Mrs. Favers • Chloe • Pearl • Ned • Jake and Joe Favers • Bull • Teenchy • Br'er Rabbit • Br'er Fox • Br'er Bear • Br'er Terrapin • Miss Possum • Mr. Bluebird • Sis Moles • Hummingbird Trio • Br'er Frog • The Bees • Butterflies • Br'er Raccoon • Skunky • Sis Porcupines • The Fishes Disney has not released the film on its streaming service, Disney Plus, and it likely never will. Some argue that Disney should bring it to the streaming service, albeit with added cultural sensitivity warnings, as they did for Dumbo and Lady and the Tramp. All I Want": Traditional, new arrangement and lyrics by Ken Darby; performed by the Hall Johnson ChoirHill, Jim (July 5, 2007). "As "Tarzan" swings off Broadway, is Beyoncé getting ready to play Aida in Disney's next big movie musical?". Jim Hill Media . Retrieved July 6, 2007. finally the easiest thing to spot is the disdain and treatment that uncle remus faced from the aristocratic family. This is an intelligent, caring, and respected man who is very much treated as a servant, whether he is a slave or not. Tell me any of those critical conversations dont look more like you criticizing your employee than asking your friend to act a little different around your kid. Song of the South • That's What Uncle Remus Said • Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah • Who Wants to Live Like That? • Let the Rain Pour Down • How Do You Do? • Sooner or Later • Everybody's Got a Laughing Place • All I Want

Let the Rain Pour Down": (downtempo) Written by Ken Darby and Foster Carling; performed by the Hall Johnson Choir As Uncle Remus, James Baskett is so skillful in registering contentment that even the people who believe in the virtues of slavery are going to be impressed and want to know his secret.”—Film critic Manny Farber in The New Republic, December 23, 1946. [56] My name is Howard Cromer. I live in Cypress, I'm a Disney shareholder. I'm actually delivering a message from my son, 10. He wants to know in recent years, in the midst of all your re-releases of your videos, why you haven't released Song of the South on your Disney Classics? ..." Through the NAACP commended the movie’s technical wizardry and its blend of animation and live action, the organization said in a statement that it “regrets, however, that in an effort neither to offend audiences in the North or South, the production helps to perpetuate a dangerously glorified picture of slavery … [the film] unfortunately gives the impression of an idyllic master-slave relationship, which is a distortion of the facts.”Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah": (reprise) Performed by Bobby Driscoll, Luana Patten, Glenn Leedy, Johnny Lee, and James Baskett Solomon, Charles (1989). Enchanted Drawings: The History of Animation. Alfred A. Knopf. p. 186. ISBN 0-394-54684-9. And the people who have seen this movie and still like to make false assertions that it's racist are people who watch it, with chips already planted in their shoulders and are trying to look for anything they can find to point to and say "it's racist". When it isn't. They don't realize that the NAACP 9 (An organization founded by white leftists, which has had a lot of crooked history - including giving Donald Sterling of all people 2 lifetime achievement awards.) made the declaration they made with ANY OF THEM HAVING SEEN THE FILM. To this day, the people who object the most about Disney releasing this film are people who have not seen this film. James Baskett received an honorary Academy Award for his portrayal of Uncle Remus, dispenser of life-lessons for Bobby Driscoll’s Johnny, who moves from Atlanta to his grandmother’s plantation. The character of Uncle Remus, originated in the collected stories of Joel Chandler Harris, epitomizes the Magical Negro trope that persists in Hollywood today. Baskett won the Oscar in March 1948, but died later that year from complications from diabetes.

I watched the film for the first time in the early 1950s. I saw it at least once more on television in the 1950s. I have never associated it with slavery. My focus was on the stories and how they were used as lessons for the children. To criticize the story for the dialect the people and animals use would be the same as criticizing books because the characters use a French, German, Irish, Scottish, etc. accent that the authors spell out phonetically. For those who haven't seen the film, which won an Oscar for Best Original Song for "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah," the movie is a combo of animation and live-action, with a story based on Joel Chandler Harris' "Uncle Remus" books. In the movie, a young boy named Johnny (played by Bobby Driscoll) gets told stories that teach him a number of lessons from former slave Uncle Remus (James Baskett).Song of the South remains the Walt Disney Company’s most divisive endeavor. The question of whether to give it a home release moved through several elite Disney heads, with 1984-2005 CEO Michael Eisner reportedly requesting that the character of Uncle Remus be ignored in the Splash Mountain ride adaptation. Disney CEO Calls Movie Antiquated and Fairly Offensive". Song of the South.net. March 16, 2010 . Retrieved March 16, 2010. Disney song compilations have the luxury of extracting Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah from that introduction, leaving a cheery little number about carefree days of sunshine and bluebirds and the other pleasures of communing with nature. Yet the rotten heart of Song of the South is the implication that such carefree days were easier to come by in the idealized world of the pre-civil war south. Things are better for everyone, the film suggests, when men like Uncle Remus accept their subservience and benefit from the largesse of white plantation owners, even when they’re ostensibly free to leave at any time.