https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/f276eeb1-ae91-4179-ae29-1dca6af16ade Warning!: Racism, Imperialism (Disney) English with optional English subtitles, Directors: Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson, Writers: Dalton S. Reymond, Morton Grant, Maurice Rapf, Featuring: Bobby Driscoll, James Baskett, Hattie McDaniel, Ruth Warrick Synopsis: The kindly story-teller Uncle Remus tells a young boy stories about trickster Br'er Rabbit, who outwits Br'er Fox and slow-witted Br'er Bear to help little Johnny deal with his confusion over his parents' separation as well as his new life on the plantation. (See below for details and background) Content Warnings: RACISM Sex & Nudity: None Violence & Gore: Mild Profanity: None Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking: None Frightening & Intense Scenes: Mild Child abuse (off screen, but a switch is shown in hand) Sad animal Bugs (animated, happy) Minority misrepresented Background (mostly from wikipedia): In 1880, Joel Chandler Harris wrote his first book, "Uncle Remus: His Songs And Sayings" and was immediately acclaimed as one of the era's best writers, ranking with Mark Twain, Whitcomb Riley and George Washington Cable. He went on to write nine additional books and, in 1892, wrote a fictionalized life of his biography in "On The Plantation." The tales of Uncle Remus have been translated into 20 languages and immortalized on film by Walt Disney. Disney hired African-American performer and writer Clarence Muse to be consulted on the screenplay, but Muse quit when Reymond ignored Muse's suggestions to portray African-American characters in a way that would be perceived as being dignified and more than Southern stereotypes. Muse subsequently wrote letters to the editors of black publications to criticize the depiction of African-Americans in Reymond's script. Disney claimed that Muse attacked the film because Disney did not choose Muse to play the part of Uncle Remus, which Muse had lobbied for. The Disney Company has stated that, like Harris's book, the film takes place after the American Civil War and that all the African American characters in the movie are no longer slaves. The Hays Office had asked Disney to "be certain that the frontispiece of the book mentioned establishes the date in the 1870s"; however, the final film carried no such statement. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., a congressman from Harlem, branded the film an "insult to American minorities [and] everything that America as a whole stands for." The National Negro Congress set up picket lines in theaters in the big cities where the film played, with its protesters holding signs that read "Song of the South is an insult to the Negro people" and, lampooning "Jingle Bells", chanted: "Disney tells, Disney tells/lies about the South." On April 2, 1947, a group of protesters marched around Oakland, California's Paramount Theatre with picket signs reading, "We want films on Democracy not Slavery" and "Don't prejudice children's minds with films like this". The National Jewish Post scorned the fact that the film's lead was not allowed to attend its premiere in Atlanta because of his race. Criticisms in the Black press largely objected to the reinforcement of stereotypes, such as the subservient status of Black characters, costuming, the exaggerated dialect, and other archaic depictions of Black people. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:01:05 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/f276eeb1-ae91-4179-ae29-1dca6af16ade All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.