Jim looks at why the Disney film might have missed the cut for Disney+
November 12, 2019, marked the 73rd anniversary of Song of the South's world premiere at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, Georgia. That date also marked the premiere of the Disney+ streaming video service that supposedly was going to open the vaults to previously unavailable Disney movies.
Not surprisingly, Song of the South (1946) will not be one of them even though the streaming service has included the disclaimer "This program is presented as originally created. It may contain outdated cultural depictions" on some of the other films it is showing.
Because I wrote a book titled Who's Afraid of the Song of the South that covers the making of the film and the controversy surrounding it, I have been contacted by different outlets recently to talk about the film and why Disney+ did not include it in its offerings, especially with Karina Longworth's six-part podcast Six Degrees of Song of the South that was broadcast last November that attracted a lot of attention.
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