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You Must Remember This

Sneak Peek: Six Degrees of "Song of the South"

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.715.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

This season, we explore the most controversial film in the history of Disney Animation. With the launch of Disney Plus, the company's entire library could be made available for streaming. The one film promised to remain locked away is "Song of the South," the 1946 animation/live-action hybrid set on a post-Civil War plantation. What is "Song of the South?" Why did Disney make it even amidst protests? And why have they held the actual film from release for the past thirty-plus years, while finding other ways to profit off of it? Join us, won’t you? As we uncover this hidden film in the Disney vault. New episodes of “You Must Remember This” will be released every Tuesday. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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With a launch of Disney Plus, the entire Disney library could be made available for streaming.

0:37.0

The one film that Disney has promised will remain locked away is Song of the South.

0:44.0

A hybrid animation live-action film made in 1946.

0:50.0

The film is a musical about a little white boy and the kindly, elderly black man who teaches him life lessons on a plantation

0:59.0

in post-civil war Georgia.

1:10.0

It was theatrically re-released as recently as 1986 and served as the basis for the theme park ride Splash Mountain.

1:22.0

But the film has never been made available in the US on home video.

1:27.0

What is Song of the South?

1:29.0

Why did Disney make it even amidst protests in 1946?

1:33.0

And why have they held the actual film from release for the past 30 plus years while finding other ways to profit off of it?

1:44.0

This is Karina Longworth, host of You Must Remember This, the podcast dedicated to exploring the secrets and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's film.

1:57.0

In the first century, in past seasons, we've dug deep into subjects as diverse as the stories of the two immigrant actors who created the roles of Dracula and Frankenstein in the 1930s.

2:11.0

The obscure actress girlfriends of Howard Hughes and Charles Manson's connections in Hollywood.

2:18.0

We have a new season coming October 22nd.

2:23.0

This time, we'll explore the most controversial film in the history of Disney animation, Song of the South.

2:37.0

We'll explore the film's appropriation of the tropes of minstrel shows,

2:41.0

Disney's casting of the Oscar-winning Gone With The Windstar, Hadi McDaniel, to help legitimize black caricatures,

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