Have y'all seen it? I'm limiting the poll to just that question, but please comment about what you thought of it, or what you think of the lack-of-release, or other thoughts you might have.
While the movie is not great, it is interesting because Disney refuses to release it on Disney+ or elsewhere. Why? It's totally racist. They have Dumbo on Disney+ despite the racist sterotyped crows signing about 'when elephants fly', and this is worse because it depicts actual black people (as well as all the animated animals) as being happy with slavery, and needing white supervision. Several thoughtful people have opined that the reason Splash Mountain closed was because it was based on Song of the South, and Disney could no longer justify its charaters entertaining kids in a post-George-Floyd world.
Here are some links for more information. Note: While groups certainly boycotted this film, I don't know if there's evidence of blacklisting. Maybe? Dunno.
. The script was so abnormally reprehensible that the Production Code Administration -- the enforcers of the Hays Code, the self-censorship of Hollywood movies -- strongly encouraged changing entire parts of the script. For example, the PCA suggested that the script switch terms like “old darkie” to “old man” and “Marse Jawn” to “Mister John”. One of the PCA requests that was blatantly ignored, however, was the idea of making sure that viewers understood that the film took place after the Civil War -- thus making it crystal clear that the Black people on the plantation were sharecroppers, not slaves. Disney, in making no effort to implement this crucial change, started the film on the road to the criticism that led to its eventual blacklisting.
Between increasing financial difficulties and his spiteful desire to experiment more with live-action, Disney needed new streams of revenue. He also wanted his own epic, a potential money machine on the same scale as 1939's Gone With the Wind, a movie that, when adjusted for inflation, is still the most successful film of all time.
The movie has been released on video and laserdisc in many other countries, but never in the United States. In December of 2001, Song of the South was withdrawn worldwide.
... it is essentially impossible to watch portions of the film and not get a glimpse of something a lot more malevolent and uncomfortable, as when Johnny’s grandmother playfully tells Remus she’s not mad at him for telling his stories, or when Johnny’s mother constantly gets in Remus’ face for interacting with her son.
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