do you know why Disney will not bring the song of the south out of the disny valte?

Answer 1

Contrary to what your previous answerer told you, Song of the South has not been banned in the U.S. The Walt Disney Company has simply decided not to release it because of its racial overtones.

To learn all about Song of the South and the Disney company's future intentions, visit:

www.songofthesouth.net/home.html

Click on the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) to learn all you ever needed to know about Song of the South. Believe it or not, the re-release of Song of the South was discussed at Disney's annual shareholders meeting just a few weeks ago on March 13th in New Orleans.

I think most Americans would like to see it released on DVD. It's a great movie! And regardless of the fact that it may bring up reminders of a dark period of U.S. history, it helps remind us of just how far we've come in the last 150 years.

C'mon Disney! Release Song of the South!

Answer 2

Read this Orlando Sentinel Article:

Disney weighs `Song of the South' rerelease
Orlando Sentinel (FINAL) - March 26, 2007 - p A2, A SECTION, BEHIND THE NEWS
By Travis Reed, the Associated Press
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 at 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 blacks on Southern plantations.


The film's 60th anniversary passed last year without a whisper of official rerelease, but President and CEO Bob Iger recently said the company was reconsidering.

The film's reissue would surely spark debate, but it could also sell big. Nearly 115,000 people have signed an online petition urging Disney to make the movie available.

Iger was answering a shareholder's inquiry at Disney's annual meeting in New Orleans. This month the Disney chief made a rerelease sound more possible.

"The question of Song of the South comes up periodically; in fact, it was raised at last year's annual meeting . . . ," Iger said. "And since that time, we've decided to take a look at it again because we've had numerous requests about bringing it out. Our concern was that a film that was made so many decades ago being brought out today perhaps could be either misinterpreted or that it would be somewhat challenging in terms of providing the appropriate context."

Song of the South, which is both animated and live action, tells the story of a white boy, Johnny, who goes to live on his grandparents' Georgia plantation. Johnny is charmed by Uncle Remus -- a popular black servant -- and his fables of Brer Rabbit, Brer Bear and Brer Fox, which are actual black folk tales.

Copyright 2007, Orlando Sentinel Communications. All Rights Reserved.

Answer 3

As of now the film has yet to be released to the US as a VHS or a DVD, because Disney executives feel it could be thought as racist by some.
"...Not a decision that is made forever, I imagine this is going to continue to come up, but for now we simply don't have plans to bring it back ... -Iger (a Disney Executive) about the release of Song of the South

Answer 4

It became a remarkable action picture, I observed it while i became little on the flicks, i'm uncertain if it became the 1st action picture I went to, it became the two that or flipper, i assume some everybody is comfortable with reference to the racial overtones, yet I do wish i ought to own it.