 
|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
|
|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
208.58.2.83
Of the dozens of feature-length animated films produced by the Walt Disney Studios since the 1930s, only one has never been released on home video in the United States: "Song of the South."
Read the article, then read my letter to the Globe..................................................................
Born in the Briarpatch!
"Song of the South" happened to be the first movie I was ever taken
to see and it made a powerful impression. First, I didn't even know
what a movie was! But my parents had promised me something very
special. Second, the film broke and the audience clapped and
stomped and shouted but I wasn't scared. And third, I left the
theatre knowing that a little boy such as myself could have older,
wiser friends than his parents. In fact the color thing hardly
registered with me; what grabbed my attention was how vain and
distracted the boy's own (white) parents were, how down-to-earth and warm
the (black) fieldhands were. Consequently whatever "racial
prejudice" I saw in the film was -- anti-white!Renée Graham says "Song of the South" was never issued here on
video, which is true, but it was out on VHS in Europe and on
laserdisc in Japan (I own one of those and it looks great). What a
shame that for entirely chimerical reasons we are deprived
of one of the finest cartoon films Disney ever made. Every boy and
girl and for that matter every grown-up should be able to see what
it means to be, like Brer Rabbit, born in the briarpatch.Clark Johnsen
- http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2005/02/08/south_deserves_a_fresh_look/ (Open in New Window)
Follow Ups:
is right here http://www.songofthesouth.net
.
when I was running theatres some years back, we had some real Disney nuts who told me about SOTS and the fact that you can't get it here due to the racial overtones. I remember asking a few people going to Japan to pick me up a copy and you see bootlegs on Ebay all of the time, but I never pulled the trigger.Chris
Although it's not released by Disney, a new DVD is out, if I did this right, there should be a link at the end of this. A wonderful movie.John
z
These are not "new" DVD's in the release or mastering sense. They are simply copies from the original on VHS video tape. Quality is OK, but only for VHS and would be considered poor for DVD standards. The film was a great success and I also saw it in a theater as a child. The most notable song, Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah was a number one hit in 1946 or 1947, when the movie was released. Definately an uplifting movie after a terrible war. Yes, it used stereotypes as part of it's "charm", but that was another time and the movie certainly took us to another place.
-Bill
If so and done right, quality should be fine as long as the laserdisc is HQ.I bet Disney would put this down pretty quick if they got wind of it...
from Japan or elsewhere I suppose. I don't know that it was ever released here on LD, but perhaps it was. I do know that it is difficult to find in any format. ebay will not allow sales evidently. I bought mine from a fellow in CA who had an Indian accent. He makes dubs of weddings, family films and videos to DVD and also sells these. It looked like any VHS as far as quality goes to me, but the original film is so old that it may appear that way in any form; I don't know and just felt lucky to find it at all.
-Bill
.
- http://search.ebay.com/song-of-the-south_W0QQfkrZ1QQfromZR8QQsatitleZQ22songQ20ofQ20theQ20southQ22 (Open in New Window)
They must have blown a hole in whatever legal paper was stopping them as there were zero available when i bought my copy and it was actually rather difficult to locate. That would explain all of the items using the term "rare" to describe it. Obviously, the adjective no longer suits...
-Bill
and it was everything he says about it. Excellent.I believe Disney did release it on videotape, but later withdrew it when the political correctness police arrived at Disney. Their objections were not so much with the live action portions of the film, but with the animated sections. However, they are okay with anyone with any common sense and remain hilarious to this day. The live action storyline is, well, strictly for kids, and pretty boring for adults.
BTW, based on his tape version, I would suspect his DVD product is also excellent.
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
Top of Page ]
[ Contact Us ]
[ Support/Wish List ]
[ Copyright © 2024, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]
