02.24.2005 02:24
Disney to re-release 'Song of the South'?
From "Song
of the South" to go on sale in '06, via Metafilter, Disney's
Buena Vista Home Entertainment is planning to re-release 'Song of
the South' in the Fall of 2006, for the film's 60th
anniversary.
Great news. I remember this film from when I was a kid, and loved the Joel Chandler Harris stories told by Uncle Remus.
The film tells the Brer Rabbit tales The Briar Patch, The Tar Baby and Brer Rabbit's Laughing Place, and has the well known song 'Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah'.
Songofthesouth.net is a wonderful site with much information about Harris, Uncle Remus, the stories and the film. This was the first Disney film with flesh-and-blood players. Walt said:
Mr Bluebird on Uncle Remus' shoulder, at songofthesouth.net
Great news. I remember this film from when I was a kid, and loved the Joel Chandler Harris stories told by Uncle Remus.
The film tells the Brer Rabbit tales The Briar Patch, The Tar Baby and Brer Rabbit's Laughing Place, and has the well known song 'Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah'.
Songofthesouth.net is a wonderful site with much information about Harris, Uncle Remus, the stories and the film. This was the first Disney film with flesh-and-blood players. Walt said:
There is something endlessly appealing and satisfying in Joel Chandler Harris' droll fables of animals who behave like humans, and in the character who narrates them. ...Source: RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., via Background [Walt Disney on the Appeal of the Theme] at songofthesouth.net.
It is their timeless and living appeal; their magnificent pictoral quality; their rich and tolerant humor; their homely philosophy and cheerfulness, which made the Remus legends the top choice for our first production with flesh-and-blood players.
Mr Bluebird on Uncle Remus' shoulder, at songofthesouth.net