Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786300276550 Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Live, NTSC ISBN: 6300276554 Label: Walt Disney Video Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Walt Disney Video Release Date: December 16, 1994 Running Time: 26 minutes Studio: Walt Disney Video Sales Rank: 1603
Amazon.com: Purchasers of Disney's "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah," the second volume of the company's Sing Along Songs series, may discover that not everything is as "satisfactchull" as it could be with this tape--it all depends on why you're buying it. If you've sought out the video because of a sentimental devotion to the musical the title tune is taken from, Song of the South, then you're bound to be disappointed. Disney's undying efforts to make nice have spilled into this segment (the first of a nine-song package), and all is sanitized so that the original film's disconcerting depictions of then-de rigueur racial inequality cause no modern-day discomfort. But that's not to say the scene of Uncle Remis strolling a hummingbird- and butterfly-lined road and singing his song isn't a sure-fire mood-lifter, or that it doesn't succeed in its mission, which is to jog joyful childhood memories. And it is the only way to see any of the film on video; Disney has no plans to ever release the controversial film. In fact each of this collection's numbers (all ingrained collectively on a generation now raising its own kids), aims to knead adult viewers' nostalgic sides (presumably part of a strategy to perpetuate Disney die-hards). Especially effective are Cinderella's "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo," the Davy Crockett series' "The Ballad of Davy Crockett," and Snow White's "Whistle While You Work." --Tammy La Gorce
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Song of the South
As much as I loved watching this Disney Sing-A-Long video, when I use to own it, I wouldn't mind seeing and/or hearing Disney's CEO; Robert Iger and the Walt Disney Company talk about releasing the movie ... Read More
Rating: - Disney's Sing-A-Long Songs - Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
I don't know what all the fuss is about! I am not a politically correct person. I am a grandmother trying to show my grandsons what wonderful songs came out of such great movies produced by Disney. All ... Read More
Rating: - Song of the South: a GREAT Disney film
I'm heartened by all the reviews I read that are practically begging Disney TO BRING BACK Song of the South. It is one of the
cheeriest, most uplifting old films we have, despite the hyper-myopic views ... Read More
Rating: - Song of the South-Zip A Dee Doo Dah
All I heard on the reviews was stuff about Song of the South being banned. Nobody got down to the songs. Those are supposed to be confiscated (the reviews about Song of the South being banned). Here are the songs: ... Read More
Rating: - Show respect?
If it is required that a movie show respect to people of any color then why not also ban every movie that has ever shown white people in a bad light?
This movie shows how it really was at one time in our history, ... Read More
- Song of the South