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Title: Only available as an historical document? Maybe not...
Post by: Josh on March 27, 2007, 03:27:57 PM

Quote from: Sun-Sentinel (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/orl-bk-disneysouth032407,0,1977832.story?coll=sfla-news-florida)

Walt Disney Co.'s 1946 film "Song of the South" was historic. It was Disney's first big live-action picture and produced one of the company's most famous songs -- the Oscar-winning "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah." It also carries the story line of the Splash Mountain rides at its theme parks.

But the movie remains hidden in the Disney archives -- never released on video in the United States and criticized as racist for its depiction of Southern plantation blacks. The film's 60th anniversary passed last year without a whisper of official rerelease, which is unusual for Disney, but President and CEO Bob Iger recently said the company was reconsidering.
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Remus and other black characters' dialogue is full of "ain't nevers," "ain't nobodys," "you tells," and "dem days's."