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Any body under 70 might not know this film but I loved it as a 6 year old.

In the 80s deemed to be racist so no copies .

But thanks to you tube you can watch it.


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I am under 70 yet can clearly remember seeing this curate's egg of a film. Wonderful in some ways and deeply, casually racist in others. It's a shame about the good bits but it has to be consigned to history and never be revived.
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Is that where the tar baby came from?
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11-02-2020, 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by biffo ->
Is that where the tar baby came from?
Yes.

But in 1946 was it racist or was it misconstrued later.



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Thank you

I suppose Biffo the Bear may be a bit dodgy too
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11-02-2020, 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by galty ->
Any body under 70 might not know this film but I loved it as a 6 year old.

In the 80s deemed to be racist so no copies .

But thanks to you tube you can watch it.


Zip it e doo dah


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdKW6_MEUqk
I loved that film, pretty certain I had the video years ago too. You can still buy it on DVD.
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12-02-2020, 12:42 PM
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There was one small scene I recall that illustrates the casual racism - all the children, including the slaves' little boy, are running through the woods. They all jump over a fallen tree trunk except the clumsy slave boy who trips and falls flat on his face.
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That is only racism if you are looking for racism.
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12-02-2020, 08:17 PM
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I saw the movie when I was very young, certainly the movie was racist. It was made in the day when racism was considered normal. The movie reflected the time and should be preserved as lesson on just how rotten our culture was.

My grandfather was born, as a son of the master, on a slave plantation. I was raised in the certainty that all things white were superior to all things black, and that teaching was in the home, the community, the church and the school.(all of which were segregated) I remember nothing mean nor spiteful about it, it was just the way it was. I started learning the error of our ways when I began to enter into the adult world and started thinking for myself.

We were more ignorant then than now, hopefully, with time, we will continue to progress, even though there are growing groups who would like to drag us back.
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Read this....

Q. Is the movie set before or after the Civil War?

A. After. Just as the original Uncle Remus stories written by Joel Chandler Harris, Song of the South is set in a time period after the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. This is evident by the fact that in the movie Uncle Remus is able to freely leave the plantation. It's possible Walt Disney assumed that people already knew this fact, and may have felt that stating the date was unnecessary. Nevertheless, it has remained a cause for confusion.



and this...

Q. What is so "racist" about this movie?

A. The general objections lie in the depiction of African-Americans within the live action sequences of the film, such as stereotyping. Some also mistakenly believe the movie depicts slavery, and consequently believe that Disney tried to "sugarcoat" slavery. In the 1940's, the NAACP charged the film with giving the impression of "an idyllic master-slave relationship." Some people also find the Tar Baby animated sequence to be objectionable. For more in-depth discussion on the issues surrounding this film, please read my defense on the matter.

Taken from this...

http://www.songofthesouth.net/faq/index.html


In fact read all of the article.
It was never banned, it was Disney who didn't re-release it in America. I still don't think it's racial.
 

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