Breggen Disney has chosen not to release this film for good reason. For the most part the animated sections are very endearing and free of racism but the rest of the film is certainly not. I can't believe how people can't see that this is racist. Probably because they are at least somewhat racists themselves even if they don't realize it.The film portrays slavery in an almost positive light, which is an obvious rewriting of history and an injustice. It also depicts black people as mostly unintelligent lick-spittles who desire nothing more than to serve their masters well and who are endearingly stupid and jolly. Black slaves sometimes acted like that as a disguise to help protect them from their enslavers' hatred and wrath, not because they actually were like that. It was an act they put on out of necessity for survival. The film also perpetuates the racist archetype of the "magical n*gger or negro". If you don't know what that is or why it is a bad thing to perpetuate you should google it.I somehow managed to see this film as a child when I was very young, I think in Disney World itself, and I honestly feel that it gave me a biased view of black people for the first few years of my life. It is a film that can very powerfully affect children. I would have thought that most adults could watch it and see it for its shortcomings without being negatively influenced by it in their attitudes but after reading some of the above comments I am not too sure about that anymore.Not showing this film to young children under the trusted auspices of the Disney brand, which is exactly what would happen if it was released, is an act of decency, not an act of political correctness run amok as many of the apparently ignorant and racist people reviewing this film would have you believe.There is no doubt that this is NOT a film that should be viewed by young children as entertainment and that is probably why Disney doesn't release it except for academic study by adults...thank God.

deacon_blues-3 The excellence of every aspect of this film is beyond dispute. It's melding of animation and live action is brilliant, nearly 20 years prior to "Mary Poppins," which always gets such fawning recognition from all the critics for this very thing.The child acting is also impeccable. Ginny is a stunningly beautiful child (who, by the way, never was able to measure up to her childhood good looks as an adult, and died of complications from rheumatoid arthritis and respiratory failure, already a decrepit crone at the age of 57), and a fine child actress. The tragic Billy Driscoll, who died very young, is also impressive, as he always was as a child star. James Basket is so charming and admirable as the iconic Uncle Remus. He instills wisdom, dignity, and integrity in his portrayal. To see his performance as merely a racist caricature is to deny historical reality.Yes, the idyllic nostalgia with which post-civil-war plantation life is portrayed may stick in the craw of many a civil-rights revisionist who would rather we forget such times ever existed; but it is also admirable that the relationships between the plantation owners and the former slaves are presented with familial equality. White children play with black children, Uncle Remus and Aunt Tempy are allowed to respectfully criticize the decisions of their white employers, and former slaves are presented with all the dignity that those newly freed but still dependent people historically possessed.To brand this film as racist is to indulge in racial paranoia and a deluded denial of actual history. To say that poor, uneducated, but wise and dignified people such as Remus and Tempy never existed or are stereotypes that must be forever banned from public consideration shows an unhealthy and obsessed insecurity that is both tyrannical and stifling to authentic creativity.

The_Rook The sad truth is this movie is part of our American History and yet because of labeling for no legitimate reason the movie is not sanctioned by those like the NAACP. The irony is movies that are offensive to other Americans are granted free license for distribution because there is a double standard.Song of the South is merely a tale like many fairy tales told prior to the 1960s. This tale is told from a perspective of the South that is closer to the truth of our culture at that time than some want to reflect on. As a child I saw this movie and it did not skewer my ideas about any people in the movie at all. It was the animals and the music that are the true entertainment. I hope some day everyone of every color will appreciate that and stop censoring anything they don't think reflects them as perfection throughout history.

bdhman77 It is an All-Too-American thing for people to just run their mouths and say anything & everything & pretend they know everything when in fact they never even are in a position to write an informed comment about something. Too all of you people who saying this film CONTAINS SLAVERY, even those of you who are writing positive reviews, please answer the following questions for you: (1)How on earth is it 95% of people on this fictitious plantation on this fantasy children's films are Black, and the only white folks on the plantation are 3 women and 3 children? One is an elderly woman I night add, and over at least 100 black folks! If it did "CONTAIN SLAVERY" like some of you think it does, it would make sense to have some Strong White guys with a whip walking around watching everyone don't ya think? (2)Why did Uncle Remus get up and leave the plantation and no one stopped him? The Fact is, just like Joel Chandler Harris' book "Uncle Remus: His Songs & Saying: Folklore of the Ols Planation" written in 1880, THE STORY TAKES PLACE AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, SO NONE OF THE BLACK CHARACTERS IN THIS FILM ARE SLAVES, but share-croppers & domestic-helpers. PLEASE GET THAT CORRECT! I'm not gonna spoil anything else about this film other than to say this is a very very culturally historic film for the following reasons: (1) African-American folklore was brought to the silver screen and presented as American- Folklore.(2) The Hero of this Plantation film set during the reconstructions era IS A BLACK MAN, AND THE NORMAL SMART FOLKS ARE BLACK FOLKS IN THE FILM.(3) It was a racially integrated film, were one of the protagonist of the film, little Johnny two best friends are Uncle Remus, and Toby.(4) Live actions animation(5) The voices of African-American actors being used for cartoon characters give the animation scenes an ALL-BLACK experience. And The Gullah accents really gives it essence, unique culturally & remains loyal to exactly how Mr. Handler Harris himself heard stories being told to him. (6) The Film, if you can just put your personal agenda's aside for one second, and just look at the film for what it was -- you'll have no choice but to come to this conclusion that African-Americans ARE THE SOUTH, AND THE SOUTH IS African-Americans culturally in every sense possible. African Americans REALLY DID IT ALL, THEY DID IT ALL, and everything is culturally rich about the South, is because of African-Americans.(7) The First Two African Americans to win an Academy Award were playing in this film opposite of each other.(8) Disney was so outraged at the racism that existed within the Academy Of Arts & Sciences at the time, that they didn't even nominate James Basket for an Oscar for his role as Ucle Remus, that HE USED THE POWER & MIGHT OF HIS COMPANY & LOBBIED VERY HARD TO MAKE SURE JAMES BASKET GETS AN Oscar FOR HIS PORTRAYAL OF UNCLE REMUS WHICH HAPPENS IN 1948, James Basket receives an Oscar for playing Uncle Remus in Song Of the South.I hope Diseny takes the advice of their African-American Legend Animator Flyod Norman and not only releases this film on DVD-Blu-Ray, but I think they need to do a re-make with Bill Cosby playing Uncle Remus while he is still alive.