Even though Song of the South inspired Disneyland’s iconic Splash Mountain, and “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” won an Oscar for best original song in 1947, Disney has tried to distance itself from the film’s ...
Disney is leaving some controversial parts of its past behind. "Song of the South" is set in the region during the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era, and although the film initially received accolades ...
Disney+ will be the new streaming home for the vast majority of Disney titles, but one film will not be featured on the service: Song of the South, a 1946 animated musical set in the years following ...
Tim Burton’s remake of the Walt Disney cartoon classic, Dumbo, is coming down the track towards theaters. And although early reviews and box office predictions have been mixed, we’ll say this about ...
It has only been a few days since Disney+ launched, and some of the 10 million subscribers have found some classic movies have not been edited to remove scenes that are either considered racist or ...
Dumbo, made in 1941, famously features a group of singing crows that depicted racist caricatures of African American accents. The main crow is named Jim Crow, in reference to the Jim Crow laws that ...
In “Jim Crow” and his fellow crows in “Dumbo,” I see something more meaningful than an “outdated cultural depiction.” Perhaps intended, the subtle message of “Dumbo” mocked Jim Crow laws in depicting ...