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146: Disney’s Most Controversial Film (Six Degrees of Song of the South, Episode 1)

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Song of the South Is a Real Movie

Song of the south is a real movie. It was the only disney film with a black main character in the company's history, until the release of the princess and the frog in two thousand nine. Though this movie was re released theatrically four times after its initial mer in 19 forty six, it has never been released on any home video format in the united states. Even in the 19 forties, there were black and white americans who were concerned that walt disney was not the right person to make a film about plantation life in reconstruction era georgia. And when the movie was released many white film critics commented on the film's retrograde and racest depictions of

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