kazzman Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 "The Song of the South" onto video. Disney May Finally Release 'Song of the South' on Video The Kansas City Star, which has been running a daily feature saluting past Oscar winners in the run-up to the awards show on Feb. 27, today (Tuesday) selected Disney's 1947 film Song of the South, which won the best song Oscar ("Zip-a-Dee-Doo-dah") and a special Oscar for its star, James Baskett. It is the only Disney animated film never to have been released on home video in the U.S., largely because it was condemned during the civil rights era by the NAACP for "the impression it gives of an idyllic master-slave relationship." A website devoted to the film, www.songofthesouth.net, has collected over 60,000 names on a petition to encourage Disney to release the film, and Disney Studios Chairman Dick Cook is being quoted as acknowledging that it has received more requests for a DVD release of the movie than any other film. Cook noted that a similar complaint about racial issues was addressed when the studio released World War II material in the Walt Disney Treasures DVD series "through introductions that place the material in context." Cook said that he was "confident" that a similar solution could be found for Song of the South. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sodoff Baldrick Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 By that logic, Gone with the Wind should have been banned, too, you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazzman Posted February 2, 2005 Author Share Posted February 2, 2005 QUOTE (Sodoff Baldrick @ Feb 2 2005, 08:30 AM) By that logic, Gone with the Wind should have been banned, too, you think? All those kinds of movies should have then... Bit of Trivia... Did anybody know that such films as "Gone With The Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz" were illegally made because there was a law before WWII that outlawed movies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTrinity Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 It's about damn time! I have a dvd-r of a Japanese release that is ok, but, I want to see it again so badly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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