THIS is a BR'ER RABBIT Disney Color Transparency featuring Classic ANIMATION Art
Br'er Rabbit is the protagonist of the animated sequences of the 1946 Disney feature film Song of the South.
IThe movie is steeped in racist stereotypes and minstrel tropes.
They are intrinsic to the narrative, not passing references.
The plot revolves around Johnny, a young white boy in the Reconstruction South, who lives on his family’s plantation.
Many people, then and now, mistakenly believe the movie is set before or during the Civil War, a mistake that’s easy to make because the world is composed of white masters and Black workers.
In one song, the Black plantation workers allude to choosing to stay on the farm over risking the outside world, implying these formerly enslaved people willingly decided to work for their former oppressors.
This, of course, ignores the reality of the Reconstruction era, where employment was not readily available anywhere for Black people and many, as a matter of survival, remained on plantations in systems that were still slavery in all but name.
When the movie premiered in 1946, it was met with immediate pushback, including protests and picketing all over the nation.
“You begin to wonder if Disney doesn’t think Lincoln was wrong in signing the Emancipation Proclamation,” one review in the New Yorker read.
Influential Hollywood columnist Jimmie Fidler said the movie “should be immediately withdrawn and the entire Hollywood industry share the cost because it will mean a black eye for all of the industry.”
Although it was released several more times over the decades as part of Disney’s lucrative theater re-release strategy, “Song of the South” has stayed in the vault since 1986.
But that hasn’t stopped the company from utilizing its intellectual property in a way that whitewashes its history.
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Item in VINTAGE FAIR / Good CONDITION but is over 30 years old and has age wear.
TRANSPARENCY is 4 X 5 inches
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