Breggen Disney has chosen not to release this film for good reason. For the most part the animated sections are very endearing and free of racism but the rest of the film is certainly not. I can't believe how people can't see that this is racist. Probably because they are at least somewhat racists themselves even if they don't realize it.The film portrays slavery in an almost positive light, which is an obvious rewriting of history and an injustice. It also depicts black people as mostly unintelligent lick-spittles who desire nothing more than to serve their masters well and who are endearingly stupid and jolly. Black slaves sometimes acted like that as a disguise to help protect them from their enslavers' hatred and wrath, not because they actually were like that. It was an act they put on out of necessity for survival. The film also perpetuates the racist archetype of the "magical n*gger or negro". If you don't know what that is or why it is a bad thing to perpetuate you should google it.I somehow managed to see this film as a child when I was very young, I think in Disney World itself, and I honestly feel that it gave me a biased view of black people for the first few years of my life. It is a film that can very powerfully affect children. I would have thought that most adults could watch it and see it for its shortcomings without being negatively influenced by it in their attitudes but after reading some of the above comments I am not too sure about that anymore.Not showing this film to young children under the trusted auspices of the Disney brand, which is exactly what would happen if it was released, is an act of decency, not an act of political correctness run amok as many of the apparently ignorant and racist people reviewing this film would have you believe.There is no doubt that this is NOT a film that should be viewed by young children as entertainment and that is probably why Disney doesn't release it except for academic study by adults...thank God.

colaof I'm 30 years old, and before today I had never even heard of Song of the South. After learning of it I knew that I had to see it, and judge it for myself. Well, I did, and I thought it was a pretty good movie. Is it the best Disney has to offer? In my opinion, no, but had I been allowed to see it as a child I might have viewed it more highly than I do as an adult. For the life of me I can't understand why Disney banned it. Because it portrays slaves as happy? Because it portrays them at all? It's a kids movie, and one that was made when segregation was still prevalent for that matter. Frankly, I'm surprised a movie like this got made at all in 1946. With everybody up in arms over political correctness these days, I feel Song of the South hasn't got a chance of getting an updated release, and it's a shame. My four year old watched part of it with me, and he thought the animated scenes with Br're Rabbit were hilarious. I'd love to see a version of this movie cleaned up and restored as the version I saw was pretty dark, and some parts were hard to make out. It baffles me how James Baskett could win an honorary Oscar for his role as Remus, and Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah could win for original song, and then Disney pretend that this movie never even existed. How does this happen? It's a disgrace that more children aren't given the chance to see Song of the South. I hope one day that changes, but for now I'm not going to hold my breath, and just be glad I was fortunate enough to see it at all.

deacon_blues-3 The excellence of every aspect of this film is beyond dispute. It's melding of animation and live action is brilliant, nearly 20 years prior to "Mary Poppins," which always gets such fawning recognition from all the critics for this very thing.The child acting is also impeccable. Ginny is a stunningly beautiful child (who, by the way, never was able to measure up to her childhood good looks as an adult, and died of complications from rheumatoid arthritis and respiratory failure, already a decrepit crone at the age of 57), and a fine child actress. The tragic Billy Driscoll, who died very young, is also impressive, as he always was as a child star. James Basket is so charming and admirable as the iconic Uncle Remus. He instills wisdom, dignity, and integrity in his portrayal. To see his performance as merely a racist caricature is to deny historical reality.Yes, the idyllic nostalgia with which post-civil-war plantation life is portrayed may stick in the craw of many a civil-rights revisionist who would rather we forget such times ever existed; but it is also admirable that the relationships between the plantation owners and the former slaves are presented with familial equality. White children play with black children, Uncle Remus and Aunt Tempy are allowed to respectfully criticize the decisions of their white employers, and former slaves are presented with all the dignity that those newly freed but still dependent people historically possessed.To brand this film as racist is to indulge in racial paranoia and a deluded denial of actual history. To say that poor, uneducated, but wise and dignified people such as Remus and Tempy never existed or are stereotypes that must be forever banned from public consideration shows an unhealthy and obsessed insecurity that is both tyrannical and stifling to authentic creativity.

The_Rook The sad truth is this movie is part of our American History and yet because of labeling for no legitimate reason the movie is not sanctioned by those like the NAACP. The irony is movies that are offensive to other Americans are granted free license for distribution because there is a double standard.Song of the South is merely a tale like many fairy tales told prior to the 1960s. This tale is told from a perspective of the South that is closer to the truth of our culture at that time than some want to reflect on. As a child I saw this movie and it did not skewer my ideas about any people in the movie at all. It was the animals and the music that are the true entertainment. I hope some day everyone of every color will appreciate that and stop censoring anything they don't think reflects them as perfection throughout history.