Song of the South
1946 theatrical release poster.
Directed by	Harve Foster (live action) Wilfred Jackson (animation)
Produced by	Walt Disney
Written by	Dalton S. Wilfred Jackson ( January 24 1906 &ndash August 7 1988) was an American Animator, Arranger, Composer Walter Elias Disney (December 5 1901 – December 15 1966 was a multiple Academy Award -winning American Film producer, director, Screenwriter Reymond Morton Grant Maurice Rapf Bill Peet Ralph Wright George Stallings Joel Chandler Harris (original stories)
Starring	Ruth Warrick Bobby Driscoll James Baskett Luana Patten Lucile Watson Hattie McDaniel
Music by	Daniele Amfitheatrof Paul J. Smith (score) Edward Plumb (orchestration)
Cinematography	Gregg Toland
Editing by	William M. Morgan
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
Release date(s)	November 12, 1946 (U. Bill Peet ( January 29, 1915 &ndash May 11, 2002) was an American children's book illustrator and a story writer for Disney Ralph Wright ( May 17, 1906 - December 30, 1983) Wright was a Disney Animator and Story / Storyboard George Tweedy Stallings ( November 17, 1867 – May 13, 1929) was an American manager and (briefly player in Major Joel Chandler Harris ( December 9, 1848 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist born in Eatonton, Georgia who wrote Dame Ruth Elizabeth Warrick ( June 29, 1915 – January 15, 2005), DM, OSJ, Regend of Cathedral of St Bobby Driscoll ( March 3 1937 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa – March 30 1968 in New York City) was an Academy James Baskett ( February 16, 1904 – July 9, 1948) was an Oscar winning American actor known for his portrayal of Uncle Luana Patten ( July 6, 1938 - May 1, 1996) was an American Actress. Lucile Watson ( 27 May 1879 – 24 June 1962) was an Oscar -nominated Canadian actress Hattie McDaniel ( June 10, 1895 – October 26, 1952) was an American Actress and the first black performer to win an Daniele (Alexandrovich Amfitheatrof (Даниил Александрович Амфитеатров October 29, 1901 &ndash June 4, 1983) Paul J Smith ( October 30, 1906 Calumet Michigan - January 25, 1985) was an American music composer Edward H Plumb (1905 - 1958 (also credited as Edward Plumb and Ed Plumb), born in Streator Illinois, was a film composer best known for his work at Gregg Toland, ASC ( May 29, 1904 - September 26, 1948) was a highly influential American Cinematographer noted for his innovative William Morgan ( 1774 &ndash 1826 ? was a resident of Batavia, New York whose disappearance ignited a powerful anti-Freemason movement in the Events 764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days The year 1946 in film involved some significant events Events Top grossing films (U S. release)
Running time	94 minutes
Language	English
Budget	US$2,125,000[1]
Gross revenue	US$3,300,000[2]
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Song of the South is a feature film produced by Walt Disney, released on November 12, 1946 by RKO Radio Pictures and based on the Uncle Remus cycle of stories by Joel Chandler Harris. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Walter Elias Disney (December 5 1901 – December 15 1966 was a multiple Academy Award -winning American Film producer, director, Screenwriter Events 764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Uncle Remus is a Fictional character, the title character and fictional narrator of a collection of African American folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Joel Chandler Harris ( December 9, 1848 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist born in Eatonton, Georgia who wrote It was Walt Disney's first live-action film, though it also contains major segments of animation. Walter Elias Disney (December 5 1901 – December 15 1966 was a multiple Academy Award -winning American Film producer, director, Screenwriter The bouncing ball animation (below consists of these 6 frames The live actors provide a sentimental frame story, in which Uncle Remus relates the folk tales of the adventures of Br'er Rabbit and his friends. A frame story (also frame tale, frame narrative, etc is a narrative technique whereby an introductory main story is composed at least in part for the purpose of History The concept of folklore developed as part of the 19th century ideology of Romantic nationalism, leading to the reshaping of oral traditions to serve modern ideological Br'er Rabbit (also spelled Bre'r Rabbit or Brer Rabbit or Buh Rabbit) is a central figure in the Uncle Remus stories of the Southern United These anthropomorphic animal characters appear in animation. Anthropomorphism is the attribution of uniquely Human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings natural and supernatural phenomena material states and objects The film has never been released on home video in the USA^[3] because of content which Disney executives believe would be construed by some as racially insensitive towards Blacks and is thus subject to much rumor, although it does exist on home video in the UK where the phrase "Dirty niggers!" has been overdubbed. Home video is a blanket term used for pre-recorded media that is either sold or hired for home entertainment The United States of America —commonly referred to as the List of racism-related topics|Racism by country Racism, by its simplest definition is the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The hit song from the film was "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah", which won the 1947 Academy Award for Best Song and is frequently used as part of Disney's montage themes. " Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah " is a song from the Disney 1946 Live action and Animated Movie Song of the South The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture In Music montage (literally "putting together" or sound collage ("gluing together" is a technique where Sound objects or compositions The film inspired the Disney theme park ride Splash Mountain. WikipediaHow to fix bunched-up edit links --> Splash Mountain is a log flume attraction at three Walt Disney Parks based on characters stories and

Contents 1 Content 1.1 Plot 1.2 Animation 1.3 Songs 2 History and production 2.1 Writing 2.2 Casting 2.3 Direction 3 Release 4 Response 4.1 Accusations of racism 4.2 Academy Award recognition 5 Releases and availability 6 Pop culture references 7 References 8 External links

Content

Plot

The setting is the Deep South, shortly after the American Civil War. The Deep South is a descriptive category of cultural and geographic subregions in the American South. Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South Seven-year-old Johnny is excited about what he believes to be a vacation at his grandmother's Georgia plantation with his parents, John Sr. Fundamentally a plantation is usually a large Farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country on which Cotton, Tobacco and Sally. When they arrive at the plantation, he discovers that his parents are separating and he is to live in the country with his mother and grandmother while his father returns to Atlanta to continue his controversial editorship in the city's newspaper. Johnny, distraught because his father has never left him or his mother before, leaves that night under cover of darkness and sets off for Atlanta with only a bindle. Bindle (from German das Bündel = bundle bale) is a term used to describe the bag sack or carrying device stereotypically As Johnny sneaks away from the plantation, he is attracted by the voice of Uncle Remus, telling tales "in his old-timey way" of a character named Br'er Rabbit. " Old Time " and " Old Timey " (often not capitalized) are terms used to describe Stereotyped images and representations of the late 19th Br'er Rabbit (also spelled Bre'r Rabbit or Brer Rabbit or Buh Rabbit) is a central figure in the Uncle Remus stories of the Southern United Curious, Johnny hides behind a nearby tree to spy on the group of people sitting around the fire. By this time, word has gotten out that Johnny is gone and the servants, who are sent out to find him, ask if Uncle Remus has seen the boy. Uncle Remus replies that he's with him. Shortly afterwards, he catches up with Johnny who sits crying on a nearby log. He befriends the young boy and offers him some food for the journey, taking him back to his cabin.

As Uncle Remus cooks, he mentions Br'er Rabbit again and the boy, curious, asks him to tell him more. After Uncle Remus tells a tale about Br'er Rabbit's attempt to run away from home, Johnny takes the advice and changes his mind about leaving the plantation, letting Uncle Remus take him back to his mother. Johnny makes friends with Toby, a little black boy who lives on the plantation, and Ginny Favers, a poor white neighbor. However, Ginny's two older brothers, Joe and Jake (who are meant to resemble Br'er Fox or a "Cracker" and Br'er Bear "a big Bubba" from Uncle Remus's stories, for one is slick and fast-talking, while the other is big and a little slow), are not friendly at all. They constantly bully Ginny and Johnny. When Ginny gives Johnny a puppy, her brothers want to drown it. A puppy or pup is a juvenile Dog, generally less than one year of age that has not reached sexual maturity A fight breaks out among the three boys. Heartbroken because his mother won't let him keep the puppy, Johnny takes the dog to Uncle Remus and tells him of his troubles. Uncle Remus takes the dog in and delights Johnny and his friends with the fable of Br'er Rabbit and the Tar Baby, stressing that people shouldn't go messing around with something they have no business with in the first place. Tar-Baby was a doll made of Tar and Turpentine, used to entrap Br'er Rabbit in the second of the Uncle Remus stories

Johnny heeds the advice of how Br'er Rabbit used reverse psychology on Br'er Fox and begs the Favers boys not to tell their mother about the dog, which is precisely what they do, only to get a good spanking for it. Reverse psychology is a persuasion technique that involves the false advocacy of a belief or behavior contrary to the belief or behavior that is actually being advocated Br'er Fox is a Fictional character from the Uncle Remus folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris. Enraged, the boys vow revenge. They go to the plantation and tell Johnny's mother, who is upset that Uncle Remus kept the dog despite her order (which was unknown to Uncle Remus). She orders the old man not to tell any more stories to her son. The day of Johnny's birthday arrives, and Johnny picks up Ginny to take her to his party. Ginny's mother has used her wedding dress to make her a beautiful dress for the party. On the way there, however, Joe and Jake pick another fight. Ginny gets pushed, and ends up in a mud puddle. With her dress ruined, Ginny refuses to go to the party. Johnny doesn't want to go either, especially since his father won't be there. Uncle Remus discovers the two dejected children and cheers them by telling the story of Br'er Rabbit and his "Laughing Place".

When Uncle Remus returns to the plantation with the children, Sally meets them on the way and is angry at Johnny for not having attended his own birthday party. Ginny mentions that Uncle Remus told them a story and Sally draws the line, warning him not to spend any more time with Johnny. Uncle Remus, saddened by the misunderstanding of his good intentions, packs his bags and leaves for Atlanta. Seeing Uncle Remus leaving from a distance, Johnny rushes to intercept him, taking a shortcut through the pasture, where he is attacked and seriously injured by the resident bull. While Johnny hovers between life and death, his father returns and reconciles with Sally. But Johnny calls for Uncle Remus, who had returned in all the commotion. Uncle Remus begins telling a tale of Br'er Rabbit and the Laughing Place, and the boy miraculously survives.

Animation

There are three animated segments in the movie:

• "Brer Rabbit Runs Away": about 8 minutes, including the song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah".
• "The Tar Baby": about 12 minutes, interrupted with a short live action scene about two thirds of the way into the cartoon, including the song "How Do You Do?"
• "Brer Rabbit's Laughing place": about 5 minutes and the only segment that doesn't use Uncle Remus as an intro to its main story, including the song "Everybody's Got a Laughing place"

Also most of the last couple of minutes of the movie contains animation, as most of the cartoon characters show up in a live-action world to meet the live-action characters, and in the last seconds of the movie the real world is turned into an animated one.

Songs

Songs featured in the film include:

• "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah"
• "Song of the South"
• "Uncle Remus Said"
• "Everybody's Got a Laughing Place"
• "How Do You Do?"
• "Sooner or Later"
• "Who Wants to Live Like That?"
• "Let the Rain Pour Down"
• "All I Want"

The song "Look at the Sun" is marketed as one of the songs from the movie, though it is not actually in the film. " Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah " is a song from the Disney 1946 Live action and Animated Movie Song of the South

There are only five minutes of the movie without any music.

History and production

Walt Disney had long wanted to make a film based on the Uncle Remus storybook, but it wasn't until the mid-1940s that he had found a way to give the stories an adequate film equivalent, in scope and fidelity. "I always felt that Uncle Remus should be played by a living person," Disney is quoted as saying, "as should also the young boy to whom Harris' old Negro philosopher relates his vivid stories of the Briar Patch. Several tests in previous pictures, especially in The Three Caballeros, were encouraging in the way living action and animation could be dovetailed. The Three Caballeros is a 1944 Animated feature film produced by Walt Disney and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. Finally, months ago, we 'took our foot in hand,' in the words of Uncle Remus, and jumped into our most venturesome but also more pleasurable undertaking. "^[4]

Disney first began to negotiate with Harris' family for the rights in 1939, and by late summer of that year he already had one of his storyboard artists summarize the more promising tales and draw up four boards' worth of story sketches. ^[2] In November of 1940, Disney visited the Harris' home in Atlanta. He told Variety that he wanted to "get an authentic feeling of Uncle Remus country so we can do as faithful a job as possible to these stories. Variety is a weekly entertainment trade newspaper founded in New York in 1905 by Sime Silverman "^[2] Roy Oliver Disney had misgivings about the project, doubting that it was "big enough in caliber and natural draft" to warrant a budget over $1 million and more than twenty-five minutes of animation, but in June 1944, Walt hired southern-born writer Dalton Reymond to write the screenplay, and he met frequently with King Vidor, whom he was trying to interest in directing the live-action sequences. Roy Oliver Disney ( June 24, 1893 &ndash December 20, 1971) was with his younger brother Walt Disney, co-founder of what is now King Wallis Vidor ( February 8, 1894 &ndash November 1, 1982) was an acclaimed American Film director whose career ^[2]

Production started under the title Uncle Remus. ^[2][5] Filming began in December 1944 in Phoenix, where the studio had constructed a plantation and cotton fields for outdoor scenes, and Walt Disney left for the location to oversee what he called "atmospheric shots. "^[2]

Writing

Dalton Reymond wrote a treatment for the film. ^[5] Because Reymond was not a professional screenwriter, Maurice Rapf, who had been writing live-action features at the time, was asked by the Walt Disney Company to work with Reymond to turn the treatment into a shootable screenplay. ^[5] According to Neal Gabler, one of the reasons Disney had hired Rapf to work with Reymond was to temper what Disney feared would be Reymond's white southern slant. Neal Gabler is a professor journalist author and political commentator

Rapf was a minority, a Jew, and an outspoken left-winger, and he himself feared that the film would inevitably be Uncle Tomish. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ Uncle Tom is a Pejorative for a black person who is perceived by others as behaving in a subservient manner to White American authority figures or "That's exactly why I want you to work on it," Walt told him, "because I know that you don't think I should make the movie. You're against Uncle Tomism, and you're a radical. "^[2]

Rapf initially hesitated, but when he found out that most of the film would be live-action and that he could make extensive changes, he accepted the offer. ^[5] Rapf worked on Uncle Remus for about seven weeks. When he got into a personal dispute with Reymond, Rapf was taken off the project. ^[5] According to Rapf, Walt Disney "ended every conference by saying 'Well, I think we've really licked it now. Then he'd call you the next morning and say, 'I've got a new idea. ' And he'd have one. Sometimes the ideas were good, sometimes they were terrible, but you could never really satisfy him. "^[2] Morton Grant was assigned to the project. ^[5] Disney sent out the script for comment both within the studio and outside the studio. ^[2]

Casting

Song of the South was the first live action dramatic film made by Disney. ^[6] James Baskett got the job of portraying Uncle Remus after answering an ad to provide the voice of a talking butterfly. James Baskett ( February 16, 1904 – July 9, 1948) was an Oscar winning American actor known for his portrayal of Uncle "I thought that, maybe, they'd try me out to furnish the voice for one of Uncle Remus' animals," Baskett is quoted as saying. Upon review of his voice, Disney wanted to meet Baskett personally, and had him tested for the role of Uncle Remus. Not only did Baskett get the part of the butterfly's voice, but also the voice of Br'er Fox and the live-action role of Uncle Remus as well. ^[7] Additionally, Baskett filled in as the voice of Br'er Rabbit for Johnny Lee in the "Laughing Place" scene after Lee was called away to do promotion for the picture. ^[6] Walt Disney liked Baskett, and told his sister, Ruth Disney, that Baskett was "the best, actor, I believe, to be discovered in years. " Long after the film's release, Walt stayed in contact with Baskett. ^[2] Disney also campaigned for Baskett to be given an Academy Award for his performance, saying that he had worked "almost wholly without direction" and had devised the characterization of Remus himself. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. Thanks to Disney's efforts, Baskett won an honorary Oscar in 1948. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. ^[5][2] After Baskett's death, his widow wrote Disney and told him that he had been a "friend indeed and [we] certainly have been in need. "^[2]

Also cast in the production were child actors Bobby Driscoll, Luana Patten and Glenn Leedy. Bobby Driscoll ( March 3 1937 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa – March 30 1968 in New York City) was an Academy Luana Patten ( July 6, 1938 - May 1, 1996) was an American Actress. Driscoll was the first actor to be under a personal contract with the Disney studio. ^[8] Patten was a professional model since age 3, and caught the attention of Disney when she appeared on the cover of "Woman's Home Companion" magazine. ^[9] Leedy was discovered on the playground of the Booker T. Washington school in Phoenix, AZ by a talent scout from the Disney studio. Phoenix (ˈfiːˌnɪks O'odham Skikik, Yavapai Wasinka, Western Apache Fiinigis, Navajo Hoozdo, ^[10] Ruth Warrick and Erik Rolf, cast as Johnny's mother and father, had actually been married during filming, but divorced in 1946. Dame Ruth Elizabeth Warrick ( June 29, 1915 – January 15, 2005), DM, OSJ, Regend of Cathedral of St ^[11][12] Hattie McDaniel also appeared in the role of Aunt Tempy. Hattie McDaniel ( June 10, 1895 – October 26, 1952) was an American Actress and the first black performer to win an

Direction

The animated segments of the film were directed by Wilfred Jackson, while the live-action segments were directed by Harve Foster. Wilfred Jackson ( January 24 1906 &ndash August 7 1988) was an American Animator, Arranger, Composer ^[2] On the final day of shooting, Jackson discovered that the scene in which Uncle Remus sings the film's signature song, "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah," had not been properly blocked. According to Jackson, "We all sat there in a circle with the dollars running out, and nobody came up with anything. Then Walt suggested that they shoot Baskett in close-up, cover the lights with cardboard save for a sliver of blue sky behind his head, and then remove the cardboard from the lights when he began singing so that he would seem to be entering a bright new world of animation. Like Walt's idea for Bambi on ice, it made for one of the most memorable scenes in the film. "^[2]

The live action scenes were filmed not at the Disney studios but at the Samuel Goldwyn Studio. Samuel Goldwyn Studio was the name that Samuel Goldwyn used to refer to the Pickford-Fairbanks Studios lot and the offices and stages that his company Goldwyn Pictures

Release

The film was completed and premiered on November 12, 1946 in Atlanta, Georgia. James Baskett was unable to attend the film's premiere in Atlanta, Georgia because he would not have been allowed to participate in any of the festivities in what was then a racially segregated city. ^[13] The film grossed $3. 3 million at the box office. ^[2]

As had been done earlier with Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney produced a Sunday strip titled Uncle Remus & His Tales of Brer Rabbit to give the film pre-release publicity. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American film based on the eponymous German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. See also Comic strip A Sunday strip is a Newspaper Comic strip format where comic strips are printed in the Sunday newspaper usually in a The strip was launched by King Features on October 14, 1945, more than a year before the film was released. King Features Syndicate, a Print syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation, distributes about 150 Comic strips newspaper columns, Unlike the Snow White comic strip, which only adapted the movie, Uncle Remus ran for decades, telling one story after another about the characters, some based on the legends and others new, until it ended on December 31, 1972. A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist ^[14]

Response

Although the film was a financial success, some critics were less responsive to the film. Bosley Crowther wrote in The New York Times, "More and more, Walt Disney's craftsmen have been loading their feature films with so-called 'live action' in place of their animated whimsies of the past, and by just those proportions has the magic of these Disney films decreased," citing the ratio of live action to animation at two to one, concluding that is "approximately the ratio of its mediocrity to its charm. "^[2] However, the film also received positive notice. Time magazine called the film "topnotch Disney. "^[5] In 2003, the Online Film Critics Society ranked the film as the 67th greatest animated film of all time. The Online Film Critics Society ( OFCS) is a professional association for Film critics as well as Film Journalists Scholars, and ^[15]

Accusations of racism

Even early in the film's production, there was concern that the material would encounter controversy. As the writing of the screenplay was getting under way, Disney publicist Vern Caldwell wrote to producer Perce Pearce that "The negro situation is a dangerous one. Between the negro haters and the negro lovers there are many chances to run afoul of situations that could run the gamut all the way from the nasty to the controversial. "^[2]

When the film was first released, the NAACP acknowledged "the remarkable artistic merit" of the film, but decried the supposed "impression it gives of an idyllic master-slave relationship" (even though the film was set after the American Civil War). The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually abbreviated as NAACP, is one of the oldest and most influential Civil rights organizations ^[5]

In 2007, Movies. com listed the film as the fifth most controversial film of all time. ^[16]

Academy Award recognition

The score by Daniele Amfitheatrof, Paul J. Smith, and Charles Wolcott was nominated in the "Scoring of a Musical Picture" category, and Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah won the award for Best Song at the 20th Academy Awards on March 20, 1948. Daniele (Alexandrovich Amfitheatrof (Даниил Александрович Амфитеатров October 29, 1901 &ndash June 4, 1983) Paul J Smith ( October 30, 1906 Calumet Michigan - January 25, 1985) was an American music composer Charles Wolcott ( September 29, 1906 in Flint, United States – 1987 in Haifa, Israel) served as a member of the " Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah " is a song from the Disney 1946 Live action and Animated Movie Song of the South "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. ^[17] A special Academy Award was given "To James Baskett for his able and heart-warming characterization of Uncle Remus, friend and story teller to the children of the world in Walt Disney's 'Song of the South. '"

Releases and availability

Although the film has been re-released several times (most recently in 1986), the Disney corporation has avoided making it directly available on home video or DVD in the United States because the frame story was deemed controversial by studio management, despite Uncle Remus being the hero of the story. Home video is a blanket term used for pre-recorded media that is either sold or hired for home entertainment Film critic Roger Ebert, who normally disdains any attempt to keep films from any audience, has supported the non-release position, claiming that most Disney films become a part of the consciousness of American children, who take films more literally than do adults. Roger Joseph Ebert (iːbɝt born June 18, 1942) is an American film critic and Screenwriter. However, he favors allowing film students to have access to the film. ^[18] In the U. S. , only excerpts from the animated segments have ever appeared in Disney's DVDs (such as the 2004 two-disc release of Alice in Wonderland (1951), television shows, and the popular log-flume attraction Splash Mountain is based upon the same animated portions). Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 Animated feature film produced by Walt Disney and originally premiered in London England on July 26 WikipediaHow to fix bunched-up edit links --> Splash Mountain is a log flume attraction at three Walt Disney Parks based on characters stories and

Despite rumors of a forthcoming DVD release, Disney CEO Robert Iger stated on March 10, 2006 at a Disney Shareholder Meeting that it had been decided that the company would not re-release it for the time being. Robert A "Bob" Iger (born February 10 1951) is the head of The Walt Disney Company. ^[19] At the annual shareholders meeting in March 2007, Iger announced that the company was reconsidering the decision, and have decided to look into the possibility of releasing the film. ^[20] In May 2007, it was again reported that the Disney company has chosen not to release the film. ^[21] However, rumors to the contrary continue to surface. ^[22]

The film has been released on video in various European and Asian countries — in the UK it was released on PAL VHS tape, and in Japan (where under Japanese copyright law it is in the public domain)^[23] it appeared on NTSC VHS, BETA and laserdisc with subtitles, while a NTSC laserdisc was bootleged in Hong Kong from the UK PAL videotape. PAL, short for Phase Alternating Line, is a colour -encoding system used in Broadcast television systems in large parts of the world Japanese copyright laws consist of two parts "Author's Rights" and "Neighboring Rights" and as such "copyright" is a convenient collective term rather NTSC ( National Television System Committee) is the Analog television system used in the United States, Canada, Japan, Mexico The Laserdisc (LD is an obsolete Home video disc format and was the first commercial Optical disc storage medium PAL, short for Phase Alternating Line, is a colour -encoding system used in Broadcast television systems in large parts of the world While most foreign releases of the film are direct translations of the English title (Canción del Sur in Spanish, Mélodie du Sud in French, Melodie Van Het Zuiden in Dutch, and A Canção do Sul in Portuguese), the German title Onkel Remus' Wunderland translates to "Uncle Remus' Wonderland", and the Italian title I Racconti Dello Zio Tom translates to "The Stories of Uncle Tom. "^[24]

Despite the film's lack of home video release directly to consumers in the United States, audio from the film—both the musical soundtrack and dialogue—were made widely available to the public from the time of the film's debut up through the late 1970s. In particular, many Book-and-Record sets were released, alternately featuring the animated portions of the film or summaries of the film as a whole. Book-and-Record sets are a form of Edutainment (educational entertainment for children consisting of a picture storybook (often in Comic book format with drawings ^[25] Additionally, bootleg copies of the film in NTSC format, converted either from the UK PAL videotape (which runs slightly faster) or from a Dutch version based on the laserdisc, with subtitles made by amateurs, are widely available and have been sold in the United States at retail outlets and on online auctions with no legal action being taken by the Disney corporation. 'Copyright infringement' (or copyright violation) is the unauthorized use of material that is covered by Copyright law in a manner that violates NTSC ( National Television System Committee) is the Analog television system used in the United States, Canada, Japan, Mexico PAL, short for Phase Alternating Line, is a colour -encoding system used in Broadcast television systems in large parts of the world

Pop culture references

There have been several references to the film in popular culture. Among them were Fletch Lives (1989), Splash (film) (1984), and Starsky & Hutch (2004). Splash is a 1984 Fantasy film and Romantic comedy film directed by Ron Howard and written by Lowell Ganz and A TV Funhouse cartoon from a season 31 episode of NBC's long-running sketch show Saturday Night Live parodied many things related to Walt Disney and The Walt Disney Company. Saturday TV Funhouse is the title of a recurring Skit on NBC 's Saturday Night Live featuring cartoons created by longtime Saturday Night Live ( SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute American Sketch comedy / Variety show based in New York City Walter Elias Disney (December 5 1901 – December 15 1966 was a multiple Academy Award -winning American Film producer, director, Screenwriter In the cartoon, two kids watch an "uncut" version of Song of the South showing Uncle Remus singing the dubbed lines "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-yay / Negroes are inferior in every way" and "Whites are much cleaner, that's what I say. " Actual footage from the movie was used. ^[26] The movie had previously been lampooned during SNL's 25th season, by Tracy Morgan in a fake advertisement for "Uncle Jemima's Pure Mash Liquor. Tracy Morgan (born November 10 1968) is an American actor and comedian perhaps best known for his role on the Sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live "^[27]. An episode of the BBC radio series I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again used the film as the basis of a sketch, with David Hatch reading the story in an RP (i. I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again (often abbreviated ISIRTA was a BBC Radio comedy programme that originated from the Cambridge University Sir David Hatch ( 7 May, 1939 &ndash 13 June, 2007) was involved in production and management at BBC Radio, where he held many executive Received Pronunciation ( RP) is a form of Pronunciation of the English language (specifically British English) which has long been perceived as e the South of England) accent. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland He claims that this how people speak in Bognor, which is as far south as he's ever been. Bognor Regis is a Seaside resort town and Civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England.

References

External links

• Song of the South at the Internet Movie Database
• Song of the South at the TCM Movie Database
• Song of the South's release history from Snopes.com

Turner Classic Movies ( TCM) is a cable television channel featuring commercial -free classic movies mostly from the Turner Entertainment and Warner Snopes (ˈsnoʊps also known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a Web site that is the most widely-known resource for validating or debunking Urban legends

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