shikamaru317 said:
xD I think Song of the South is banned in the US though, so I don't think that would even be possible without them missing out on a ton of US sales. Edit: Hmmm, it's not actually banned, they've just never released it on video in the US. Now I know why the copy my 11th grade history teacher showed us had Chinese subtitles, lol. |
Yeah, my grandma ran a cinema in Atlanta and had an original reel of the film that she showed me years back. It's actually a pretty good movie that got inexorably dragged through the mud by people who either hadn't even seen it or worked under the assumption that the film was a romantic take on the antebellum South (a popular theme of the time) like Gone with the Wind when it actually takes place during Reconstruction. That's not to say it's not riddled with ole negro cliches, but compared to most offerings at the time it was rather progressive.
