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Disney's Sing-A-Long Songs - Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah [VHS]

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I agree with the other customers who think the original movie should never have been taken off the market. There are so MANY movies out that children should never see, but not this one. This movie shows how a little white boy CAN be friends with a black person. How a black man CAN be a positive influence on a white child. There's so much hate in this world that you would think that Disney would want to promote any kind of positive relationship between different types of people they could.

It's a shame that Walt spent so much of his energy making bold leaps forward when the current incarnation of his company spends so much of it making bold setbacks.

Disney, the corporation, has seen it fit to erase portions from our history books, as witnessed with Pocahontas, and deprive children of all ages an imaginative and entertaining document of our past. And for what? In hopes of forgetting a disgraceful moment in our countrys collective past? Ironic that they would appear to be halting relations rather than continuing to improve them. This is an intelligent look at conflicts that existed within our nation long ago and should be made available to the public for its immense importance on social class during a time when our nation was just getting its legs and figuring out who we were and who we wanted to become. The Song of the South, is an honest representation of a time and place. The movie is handled with delightful alacrity towards its subject matter and possesses a charm unmatched by anything the company has released in it's new age.

Children are often better judges than we, as witnessed in the movie. So, do as Walt did and let us all be your audience, once again, Disney, and not just wrongly embarrassed old fools. But, for the time being, I ask you, stay out of my local library, please. I wouldn't want you erasing away their editions of, Mark Twain, or, Harriet Beecher Stowe.

song of the south movie i cant believe that walt disney stop printing this movie it is a great movie about a little boy
that makes friends with a older black man uncle remos and he tells him the greatest stories . i would like for this movie to
put back on the market. they should have never took this classic
out of the stores if people dont like it they dont have to buy it.but what about the ones who want it.

What is going on inside those tiny pea brains at Disney (Eisner, that can only mean you). When you compare the great classic SONG OF THE SOUTH to the violence going on in movies, the sex, the vulgarity, the garbage that movie patrons see every year, something is terribly wrong. When Disney thinks they are being politically correct by disowning SONG OF THE SOUTH, remember they were also the studio that brought out PRIEST (about a gay priest), ALADDIN (portraying Arabs as stereotypes), and violent movies like THE PROGRAM, RANSOM, THE ROCK, CON AIR, etc. And what of GONE WITH THE WIND and it's non-brutal treatment of negroes (Scarlett was about the only Southerner who had a problem, and that was only with Mammy and Prissy). And what of BIRTH OF A NATION? The ultimate racist classic of all time. But it is considered a classic, and studied in all film classes (I studied it when I was attending class). Let's face it. When we see the Ku Klux Klan trying to rescue an all-white town from these ape-like (they acted like apes) negroes, and the audience is supposed to cheer, somehow, especially in today's modern age, something is lost in the translation. But neither BIRTH OF A NATION or GONE WITH THE WIND are banned. They've tried to ban 'Huckleberry Finn' from schools, but have always failed (for good reason). Mark Twain's book is no worse than the tales of Uncle Remus in SONG OF THE SOUTH, and just as fun. I suppose with any great movie or great book, we can always disect it, and discover something negative about it. But with SONG OF THE SOUTH there is very little to find fault with. Perhaps the film is a little too cheery. Maybe there isn't enough brutality in it (like GONE WITH THE WIND or the infamous BIRTH OF A NATION). Maybe Disney should re-edit the film and make certain that there are a few moments where Uncle Remus is whipped by his masters, or maybe we can see more prejudice amongst the townspeople. Maybe B'rer Rabbit or B'rer Fox can offer some disparaging remarks towards Negroes. Then maybe, just maybe, Disney should ban the film. But the film stands on its own. SONG OF THE SOUTH stands tall. And it has every right to be seen as often as the classic GONE WITH THE WIND, or even the twisted BIRTH OF A NATION.

I don't understand -- what's so controversial about the original movie? Friendship between blacks and whites? People with goodness in them? Give me a break. We can show murder, rape, violence, evil, but this movie is controversial? I think Disney must either be out of their minds, OR they're planning some big and expensive release of the movie. I bought a pirated copy, and I thoroughly enjoy watching it along with my two little girls. They'll watch that over violent and evil movies any day!

I became nostalgic reading all these wishful reviews and thought I'd like to do something positive, (see Collectibles, above) and had to see this movie again, so I looked and looked until I found a digitally mastered copy. Now my children (and yours!) can have a bit of their heritage back!
It truly is a shame that Disney today makes so much values-trashing junk, and is denying their great cultural history by banning a warm, wonderful classic such as this. Dear Walt is spinning!
Watch it and weep...and laugh, and sing! (and tell your friends!)

... I loved this movie as a child and wish that Disney would take back their decision to ban it. It is a part of our history and childhood. I would love to have it so that my children can watch it as I did. There are other movies that should never be seen instead of Song of the South. Why do they want to pick out one of the best children's classics to ban.

I am truly saddend to know that the only way I might ever own Song of the South is to purchase a pirated copy. I remember seeing this movie when I was a child. I remember my father reading me the tales of Briar Rabbit and friends- what memories! I now have a little girl, and want her to share the same memories that I treasure, but because people want to play judge and jury this can not happen, at least not now. I hope that this will change in my lifetime.

For all of you folks who, like me, first saw "Song of the South" as a child, and want to own the movie, it is available through Amazon.com/UK. It is in European format, so you have to take it to a professional video service and have it copied into US format. I now have a cherished copy, and my 3 year old grandson and I are singing "Zippedy Do Da" together!!

How sad that such a great movie for children has been banned in this country. I can think of so so many other movies that are horrible for children to see.

Maybe Disney could release it with a 'R' rating so at least we could buy it, but this like many other things have been thrown on the "burning books" in the name of purifying our past...something like the germans did in 1938 I think.