Song of the South (part one) – This Aged Great!

Uncle Remus is a racist character made by racist white writer Joel Harris. The term Uncle is a term for a slave that you let be around your children. Brer is Joel racist form of Brother. Brother rabbit and fox. The Uncle Remus book is just viewed as completely racist. Its not a history of african americans or their stories.

Wow I love your channel ! But it’s given me main character syndrome, as it seems to exclusively cover only the movies and shows from my childhood specifically movies I watched between ages 10-14 wow! Thank you

Why are you guys laughing?

It's not "brier" rabbit, it's "br'er" rabbit – a contraction of "brother".

Apparently every actor who performed a named or credited character on this movie has passed away.

So there is nobody left alive to discuss this movie that was part of its production.

That is a stark reminder of how the three to four generations that participated in this movie are almost gone now.

The youngest portrayed in this film were part of the silent generation. Less than 1% of the 19 million Americans that were part of that generation are alive today.

As for the greatest generation, much of the principle cast; less than 0.2% are alive today.

The lost generation, the older cast members, are all gone.

The young boy, Johnny, was played by Bobby Driscoll who died homeless and penniless 22 years after this film was released.

Uncle Remus was played by James Basket, who was only 41 when he portrayed Uncle Remus. He passed away three years later at 44.

Did you even watch this movie? Or are you just mispronouncing characters' names on purpose.

Br’er not Briar.

I LOVED this movie as a kid and as a child, I was completely oblivious to "race" stuff 🙏. I only remember Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit and the rest! And especially the songs! Disney apparently yanked the movie decades ago because I looked for it….which is SUCH A SHAME 🙏❤😀

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There's a whole restaurant chain in Chicago (and maybe other places?) called Uncle Remus lol

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought Bill Cosby, (umm, yeah) bought this film from Disney, and had it destroyed, for being so fucking racist. I’d watch it for the Technicolor cinematography, and that Disney was a racist.

The slaves WERE torn from their family homes. By their former countrymen. No American ever TOOK a black African. Africans took them from their families and sold them to the highest bidder. White men ended that bs or it would still be happening.

For the people hating this movie, have you seen it or are you just a sheep following whet you heard? The songs and stop are great. Watch it or STFU. It’s better than what come from gangster rap and what it says.

4:54 Quote of the Day

If you’re under 4’7, have a gimmick, and don’t talk until he likes you 😭 oh lord

Love this story nothing wrong with it disneys best work

The reason the father works at the newspaper is because the original author of the uncle Rema stories published them in the Atlanta Journal and constitution newspaper. He would take the stories from his friends who were former slaves and published their oral history kind of like Aesop's fables. All of the stories had a lesson. So I think the father's character was an homage to the original guy who brought the stories to the white people in the newspaper.

Ahhh, the good Ole days.

Jeez I feel so guilty about having sung this song so much as a child. Damn sing-along vhs tale with songs from a bunch of disney movies. I didn’t even see the whole film. I used to always like that stupid song. Yuck

The "a long time ago" is more likely a reference of the Garden of Eden mixed with African creation stories.

lol "No Hard Feelings"

It's really too bad how problematic the film is. James Baskett was a great actor, and he brings such warmth in this performance.

9:20 you're a monster

in this particular instance I think the past might not, in fact, have been doing its best

I’m not saying this isn’t racist, I think that the general read on this is correct. However, when I was a kid, I always took this as pre-slavery times. The mythic past, once upon a time.