One of my favorite childhood memories and one of Disney's masterpieces, far better than anything they are making today. Unfortunately, it is hard to find because Disney was forced to withdraw it... Why ?! Because movie is accused for racism and bad stereotypes. Movie was not directly forbidden, but whatever agency was in charge for this kind of stuff those days, they let Disney know that showing warm family atmosphere between slaves and their owners is unacceptable and can not be tolerated. I understand fights against discrimination and for equality and tolerance, but they really push it too far and destroy many beautiful things of great value by sticking to their principals. I mean... Disney did not come up with this story in 20th century with intention to offend black race. This movie is based on book that is written in year 1800. Should they raise author from the dead to change his novel, just because society circumstances are changed 150 years after ?! If this movie is offensive to black population because of slavery, then lets banish slaves from movies about ancient Greece or Rome, lets change the history. Ridiculous. This movie is not offensive discrimination, this movie is one of most emotional and beautiful masterpieces made for kids in history of animation.

I'm 30 years old, and before today I had never even heard of Song of the South. After learning of it I knew that I had to see it, and judge it for myself. Well, I did, and I thought it was a pretty good movie. Is it the best Disney has to offer? In my opinion, no, but had I been allowed to see it as a child I might have viewed it more highly than I do as an adult. For the life of me I can't understand why Disney banned it. Because it portrays slaves as happy? Because it portrays them at all? It's a kids movie, and one that was made when segregation was still prevalent for that matter. Frankly, I'm surprised a movie like this got made at all in 1946. With everybody up in arms over political correctness these days, I feel Song of the South hasn't got a chance of getting an updated release, and it's a shame. My four year old watched part of it with me, and he thought the animated scenes with Br're Rabbit were hilarious. I'd love to see a version of this movie cleaned up and restored as the version I saw was pretty dark, and some parts were hard to make out. It baffles me how James Baskett could win an honorary Oscar for his role as Remus, and Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah could win for original song, and then Disney pretend that this movie never even existed. How does this happen? It's a disgrace that more children aren't given the chance to see Song of the South. I hope one day that changes, but for now I'm not going to hold my breath, and just be glad I was fortunate enough to see it at all.

This is a very good movie. In all honesty I think that if James Baskett (Uncle Remus) felt in any way this movie was racist then he would have never accepted the role (just my opinion). And he was so wonderful as the story-teller Uncle Remus! Uncle Remus is really is a wholesome character, with good morals and a wonderful teacher.Segregation was alive and well during the time of this film - and what is so good about the film - it shows how people of different races and backgrounds can come together. There *might be* an underlying and deeper message to this film - we can desegregate ourselves and live in peace with one another.On a lighter note - there is a fun yet meaningful cartoon withing the live-action picture. Plus this film contains one of Disney's most popular and famous songs 'Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" 8/10

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.