"'Song of the South' deserves a fresh look."

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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!
RenÃ©e 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)

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Topic - "'Song of the South' deserves a fresh look." - clarkjohnsen 14:37:24 02/08/05 (11)

Everything you want to know about it - mishmashmusic 06:24:40 02/10/05 (1)

Thanks! I especially enjoyed this essay: - clarkjohnsen 08:04:38 02/10/05 (0)

I've been trying to get a copy of it... - Chris Garrett 20:13:07 02/08/05 (0)

Re: "'Song of the South' deserves a fresh look." - mwseik 16:51:56 02/08/05 (7)

The DVD is homemade. nt - clarkjohnsen 07:01:57 02/09/05 (0)

Re: "'Song of the South' deserves a fresh look." - KT88 17:21:55 02/08/05 (5)

Claims it is from a laserdisc - mishmashmusic 08:19:47 02/09/05 (4)

Could be - KT88 12:57:30 02/09/05 (2)

"ebay will not allow sales evidently." Hmm... - clarkjohnsen 14:37:28 02/09/05 (1)

Wow... - KT88 15:38:04 02/09/05 (0)

I bought a tape version from this guy over a year ago... - Mali 12:38:35 02/09/05 (0)

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