151: Splash Mountain (Six Degrees of Song of the South, Episode 6)

151: Splash Mountain (Six Degrees of Song of the South, Episode 6)

151: Splash Mountain (Six Degrees of Song of the South, Episode 6)

You Must Remember This - November 26, 2019 - 48:50

After two more successful theatrical releases, in 1980 and 1986, Disney decided to put Song of the South in the “Disney Vault” and never released it on home video or theatrically in the US ever again. And yet, at the same time, the company was developing a theme park ride around Song of the South’s characters and its most memorable song -- but without Uncle Remus, or any signifiers of the complicated racial and historical dynamics the film, however clumsily portrayed.

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