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Probably the best of the "sing along" series by Disney. May be the only chance your kids will get to experience a snippet of the original "Song of the South" cartoon characters. The actor who plays Uncle Rehmus did a wonderful job and will never receive the credit he deserves because of a few inconsiderate critics of the content of the original movie. If some people feel the movie portrays african-americans in the South poorly, then why not ban actors, movies or TV shows that portray non-african-americans poorly like Don Knots, the 3 Stooges, Beverly Hillbillies, Abbott and Costello, The Honeymooners, Martin and Lewis, etc. "Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs" surely must be offensive to Dwarfs and Midgets and ordinary people with speech impediments by use of the cartoon character named "Dopey". If you really look hard enough, you can find something that offends someone in every movie, sitcom or character-depiction. "All in the Family" and "Movin' on up"?-----I rest my case....Read full review
This film was banned in the U.S. for what I assume has to do with racism and bigotry, which I happen to think is absolutely preposterous, since this was a wonderful film that everyone truly enjoyed. I don't know why Disney can't go back and re-release this film. You may think that someone in charge may have suppressed this film from coming back into mainstream, or that someone may have royalty rights tying things up, but whatever the reasons, you might never see this film again. The film introduces us to Uncle Remus, a man that stays down at the fishing hole and is able to know many different small creatures, like Brear Rabbit and the small singing birds. I'm so totally disappointed about the outcome of this, but there is nothing you can do but call up Disney yourself and ask them what is going on. I thought that censorship was unconstitutional. I don't think anyone could block the remaking of this film or would want to, but it's high time that we make things a bit less idiotic in our society. I spent my childhood watching this film, and since I'm an old man now, I expect this film to be passed on in video by my family to my children. I don't expect miracle, but, as I remember this film, its a child-hood story told by many people and Walt Disney. So if you never ask to see this film again on DVD, its not my fault, because, for me, I'm currently working on getting this film put back into production for everyone to enjoy from now on. I'll give this film a solid 5/5 for total total originality and smart total comedy plus total nonsense, plus everything else that small people care about. IF YOU LIKE MY REVIEWS, PLEASE DON'T HESITATE TO LET ME KNOW BY VOTING. THANKS!Read full review
Walt Disney, a man deified for his empire of fantasy and timeless, whimsical creations, is a man vilified for his personal worldview. Those characters, depictions and...yes, products...not friendly toward the postmodern movement toward a friendlier culture, have been banned. In America. Scourged with tongues and pens, stricken like Moses from every monument, carried to the darkest sub-basement of Disney Studios and put under padlock and guard. These villains, these things We The People would rather not know about, are portraits of "the way we were". We The People, in looking at them, often see Dorian Gray looking back. We can't accept that We are the problem. So, we ban art, no matter its message. Disney Public Enemy Number One, consigned to flames of woe within the Mouse's donjon, is Walt's 1946 offering, Song of the South. Based upon the large battery of folk tales by Joel Chandler Harris, Song of the South is set, indeed, in the Deep South itself, a period piece very much pre-Civil War. The slaves we meet are not in rebellion. They are very much down with their servitude. Indeed, they come off as the happiest people on God's Green Earth. And, none is more selfactualized than the great storyteller himself, "Uncle Remus" (James Baskett). Remus, through the trials and tribs of two small children, provides perspective via the morality plays of his (Harris') funny animals: Br'er Rabbit and his inquisitors, Br'er Fox & Br'er Bear. It is through these stories that the children cope with, among other things, animal cruelty, then bullying and the melancholia it leaves in its wake. The animated portions, so rich in the former, "old" Disney use of color, leave us wanting more, but Song of the South, in 1946, had something more stunning to offer. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, be damned! *This film* represents the first true blending of live action and animation, 99% as dead-on in sync as its 80's stepchild. Disney even negotiates a jumping frog (animated) with the darting gaze of a very live farm dog. Baskett is fine in his role, more Bob Hoskins than Bob Hoskins, in his "interaction". His compassion for the children, his easy philosophies, all come from the heart...as do those of Hattie McDaniel (Best Supporting Actress, 1939, Gone With The Wind) who, although reprising a "Mammy"esque role, plays this one as gently understated. The truth of the matter is, it's the actors of color who "make" the show. They come across as having settled with Life, while their Caucasoid counterparts are ridden with strife and grief, always beating the breast, never quite finding their "laughing place" (Note: Is Harris' "laughing place", postmodern psychology's "happy place/safe place"?). The slaves here, are peaceful, centered, happy. And, we're here to tell them they shouldn't be. Song of the South, never released in any NTSC format nor known seen on television since this reviewer was a boy, is what it is, a postwar Disney movie with all the freedom...and the uncare...of Harry Truman's America. The Disney mythology in this case, the folk tales of a man in human bondage, would, it is true, seem a cruel mockery to some. Potential buyers must ask themselves the question, prior to purchase: "What's more important to me? What is being depicted, or the *ideas behind* what is being depicted?" The answer is crucial. So is something, anything that will accept PAL.Read full review
Quick delivery and what a great surprise that the tape were ready to watch we didn’t have to worry about rewinding them. My grands loved them all.
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My son is autistic and he just loves the sing along with Disney. Thank you so much.
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