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Song of the South is a 1946 American live-action/animated musical comedy-drama film directed by Harve Foster and Wilfred Jackson, produced by Walt Disney, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is based on the Uncle Remus stories as adapted by Joel Chandler Harris, and stars James Baskett as Uncle Remus in his final film role.
Uncle Remus is the fictional title character and narrator of a collection of African American folktales compiled and adapted by Joel Chandler Harris and published in book form in 1881. Harris was a journalist in post– Reconstruction era Atlanta, and he produced seven Uncle Remus books. He did so by introducing tales that he had heard and ...
Tar-Baby. The Tar-Baby is the second of the Uncle Remus stories published in 1881; it is about a doll made of tar and turpentine used by the villainous Br'er Fox to entrap Br'er Rabbit. The more that Br'er Rabbit fights the Tar-Baby, the more entangled he becomes. The phrase "tar baby" has acquired idiomatic meanings over the years.
The Uncle Remus film, combining live action and animation and featuring "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah," premiered to criticism and protests. Disney's most controversial movie, 'Song of the South,' opened in ...
While other Disney films are getting disclaimers, cultural critics explain why the controversial Oscar-winning Uncle Remus movie should remain locked in the vault.
"Song of the South" is narrated by Uncle Remus, a plantation worker considered by many critics to be a racist stereotype. He tells stories about the adventures of animals like Br'er Rabbit, Br'er ...
Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1848 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years, Harris spent most of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at The Atlanta Constitution.
Br'er Rabbit's dream, from Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, 1881. The Br'er Rabbit stories can be traced back to trickster figures in Africa, particularly the hare that figures prominently in the storytelling traditions in West, Central, and Southern Africa. [4]