Disney+ Will Lack ‘Song Of The South’ And A Segment From ‘Dumbo’

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When it launches in early November, Disney+ could have a humiliation of riches. It could have the Marvel movies, and Marvel reveals, which the studio owns. It could have Star Wars movies, and Star Wars reveals like The Mandalorian, as a result of Disney owns them, too. And, after all, it should have the numerous basic Disney animated “masterpieces,” comparable to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, 101 Dalmatians, Steamboat Willie, plus some deep cuts that haven’t been seen a lot since their launch. It simply received’t have all of them.

As lengthy suspected — and now confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter — Disney+ can be lacking a title they maybe understandably need nothing to do with: Song of the South, their 1946 animated/live-action hybrid set on a Georgian plantation shortly after the Civil War. A monster hit on the time — an even bigger money-maker than Fantasia and Pinocchio — it has since been criticized for being, nicely, shall we embrace “a bit racist.” Part of that’s as a result of it depicts a plantation stuffed with completely happy, carefree former slaves. There’s additionally the pesky animated segments that boasts a “tar baby,” about which not a lot must be mentioned.

Disney has usually been criticized, together with by “Disney Legend” Whoopi Goldberg, for attempting to whitewash its personal historical past, as if they have been pretending the studio wasn’t as soon as run by individuals who weren’t precisely racially progressive, at a time when a lot of America wasn’t both.