This movie has become kind of notorious because of it's subject matter-and I was talking to my daughter and niece about this tonight. We're going to Disneyland soon and they thought it was weird that the characters on Splash Mountain are from a movie that's basically wiped from existence. (everytime we've been to Disneyland it's been closed)
I remember watching it when I was a kid and can't remember where I saw it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_the_South
I remember watching it when I was a kid and can't remember where I saw it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_the_South
Despite not having a home video release in the United States, audio from the film—both the musical soundtrack and dialogue—were made widely available to the public from the time of the film's debut up through the late 1970s. In particular, many book-and-record sets were released, alternately featuring the animated portions of the film or summaries of the film as a whole.[52] The Walt Disney Company has also allowed key portions of the film to be issued on many VHS and DVD compilations in the U.S., as well as on the long-running Walt Disney anthology television series. Most recently, "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" and some of the animated portions of the film were issued on the Alice in Wonderland 2-DVD Special Edition set. These segments are part of a 1950 Walt Disney TV special included on the DVD which promoted the then-forthcoming Alice in Wonderland film.
The full-length film has been released in its entirety on VHS tape and LaserDisc in various European and Asian countries. In the UK, it was released on PAL VHS tape first in 1982, then in 1991, and again in 2000. In Japan it appeared on NTSC VHS, and LaserDisc in 1990 with Japanese subtitles during songs (additionally, under Japanese copyright law, the film is now in the public domain).[53] A NTSC DVD was released in Taiwan for the rental market by Intercontinental Video Ltd, which has been the exclusive distributor of Walt Disney Studios since 1989. This release appears to have been created from a PAL videotape, and has a 4% faster running time because of its PAL source.[54][55] While most foreign releases of the film are literal translations of the English title, the German title, Onkel Remus' Wunderland, translates to "Uncle Remus' Wonderland", the Italian title, I Racconti Dello Zio Tom, translates to "The Stories of Uncle Tom",[56] and the Norwegian title Onkel Remus forteller translates to "Storyteller Uncle Remus".[57]
In July 2017 after being inaugurated as a Disney Legend, Whoopi Goldberg expressed a desire for Song of the South to be re-released publicly to American audiences.[58]
On March 7, 2019 Disney CEO Robert Iger announced that The Walt Disney Company would be abolishing the "Disney Vault" and releasing "all" of its classic films and television shows on a new streaming media service called Disney+. Song of the South is among the top request to be included for viewing in the new streaming service's catalog which is set to launch in late September 2019. [59]