Song of the South: Restored Version Choose the file below if you have streaming issues
Song of the South: Reduced Bandwidth 1080P Version
Note: This is another one of Bro’s picks. It turned out everyone wanted to see this. Since I did The Wicker Man for Bro, this is just a general post.
ANOTHER Note: I will be at a wedding on the 11th of December, and the last GlibFlick of 2025 is on Christmas Day. I will not be posting either of those days.
OK boys and girls, here it is. Song of the South. We will be watching tonight’s film on Archive.com for reasons that will become apparent. In the 1980s, Disney pulled this film and you may never see it as a DVD or what-have-you in the states. At least not during my lifetime. Also, because nobody can see it in America, it fell victim to the “racism” shibboleth. Online comments by people who have never so much as viewed the whole thing in context grow in anger daily at the existence of such a film. Even worse, you get scholarly articles about how it should be rereleased to “teach us about the evils of racism.” Mind you this film is based on the myths and legend of the Black South, including B’rer Rabbit and B’rer Bear. Is it racist to celebrate those myths?
Trivia! As the Disney company has never released the film on home video in the USA, the film will go into public domain in 2041 and Disney will lose copyright to the film if it does not re-release it – in theaters, on home video, or via streaming. — Courtesy IMDB
Here is a rebuttal to all the progressive B.S. around this film from Saint_Pat, a commenter on IMDB. It is better than anything I could have written:
I am really annoyed by Disney’s decision to withhold Song of the South from release. They seem to think that by banning this film they could appease the charge of spreading racism. In fact, by banning this film they have given the false impression that Song of the South is a racist film that would corrupt children.
As a previous viewer pointed out, the film does NOT depict slavery. It takes place in the years following the civil war. Yes, it shows blacks as servants of whites, but this did indeed occur didn’t it? Nor does it depict blacks as entirely submissive servants to whites. Look at the way Uncle Remus defies Johnny’s mother by covering for him. Uncle Remus has his own subtle ways of rebelling against his white employers. What’s more, Uncle Remus is not a racist caricature. He is a kind and smart man with a lot of common sense.
The film even takes on race relations in the friendship Johnny strikes up with Uncle Remus and a black boy. We end of disapproving of Johnny’s mother’s narrow minded attitude toward their relationship. This is probably the closest the non-political Disney studios could come to making a liberal film.
It’s incredible therefore that it is the NAACP that protested this film whenever it was released instead of the KKK. The NAACP reminds me more of little Johnny’s white prejudiced mother than campaigners for racial equality.
Thank you, Saint_Pat! He kept going with his excellent writeup, you can read the whole thing on IMDB. With that said, it is time to watch.
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! The version I initially found is 4K, cleaned and restored probably from Europe. It is a huge file and will take a lot of bandwidth to stream and it is an insanely big (23G) download. Common Tater found a smaller file size that should be easier to stream should you be bandwidth challenged. Both versions are on Archive.com.
If you hate the movie tonight, talk about the cold, and how your dog’s poop froze to the grass. I know you all will anyway, and I love it. No rules on Thursdays!
Any boobs?
No. GlibFlick Up All Night will return in January.
Not in that era of Disney under the Disney nameplate.
The 640 X 480 at archive.org is fine too.
I am old enough to have seen this movie before it was evil.
It was beloved! The song was a big hit.
I did as well, probably about 9 years old at the time.
I’m sure it was at the Leola Theater in Minneapolis.
I remember seeing it in the theater and loving it as well. “Don’t throw me in the briar patch.” is still used by my family.
First movie I ever remember seeing as L’il creech. And I use the “don’t throw me in the briar patch” too but hardly anyone knows what I’m talking about.
There must be some cut-off where it became literally the worst because I (mid-50s) have no memory of it otherwise.
Me and my sister (Gen X, late 40s) appear to be the last generation to have had a chance to have seen this in the theater, and I remember it being on VHS. The girlfriend never had seen it, so when I saw it was on archive.org I downloaded it for her.
She was disappointed that it was a mediocre movie, as I told her it would be. The real hit is Zippidity Doo Day and the Br’er bits.
All I remember is Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah.
I’m pretty sure I read the story of Br’er Rabbit and the briar patch.
I’ll watch this either tomorrow or Saturday.
R.J., thanks for doing these.
And I salute you and your Stoic posts!
I will need many Stoics as I am going to San Fran for my niece’s wedding. I wished to never go back there.
Hopes and prayers.
I went west in the late 90s and I hated it so much there I left after 11 months.
And I gotta be in NYC for my sons wedding in the summer. I will take SF though, dad was born there, still have friends.
Same number of bums and whatnot though, so it is kinda a wash.
Same here. I saw it when I was a kid and thought it was fun.
I think we watched it in my gradeschool.
Sorry to start off on an OT, but as this came from the last thread: UCS, 4×20 wrote a good piece on reloading here https://www.glibertarians.com/2023/05/the-more-you-spend-the-more-you-save/
And Suth’s six part series starts here
https://www.glibertarians2018.link/2018/08/02/beginning-reloading/
That said, those Lee Loaders are one of the best ways to start, and each one contains all the information needed to get started on using that set. It will discuss loads, bullet weights, etc. I highly recommend them and try to keep on in every centerfire caliber I own.
Thank you.
Since I don’t reload anymore I may have some reloading manuals left over. I’ll check the garage tomorrow and let you know. The contents of the different ones are similar as far as data goes but nice to have a couple or more for comparative reasons.
RCBS sells a reloading package with most of the essential equipment but like anything else you’ll expand your requirements as time goes by.
I just put in an order for This Book and This Book.
I figure it’s a good start.
I had the Lyman book, maybe just the shotgun reloading one. I reloaded shotgun when I was doing a lot of skeet/trap before I went to metallic.
You chose well. Back when I worked any reloading books that came through the door would be sold within a couple days.
Here’s a couple good general introductions and more.
https://www.amazon.com/Shooters-Bible-Guide-Handloading-Comprehensive/dp/1632202875
😀👍
Gun shows are educational, meet like minded people
https://gunshowtrader.com/gunshows/new-york-gun-shows/
They’re all on the wrong end of the state…
😭
lol mostly WNY and even one on LI
Nothing around Albany
Buffalo is not a day trip…
Saw one at the Fairgrounds but even that is a bit of a trek.
OK boys and girls, here it is. Song of the South.
Woo-hoo!
Diving in soon
I could not get past the raging anger in the first link at the idea of blacks and whites getting along instead of the fear and mistrust and anger that the writer obviously would prefer and which would indeed prevail for many decades.
It’s unreal.
And I did not try hard to find those examples.
I’ve never seen this nor been exposed to any opinion other than “it’s the most racisty racist thing ever”.
That article is like paint-by-numbers Concern!
blech
Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah
Many mahalos Sensei that you linked that version.
With this crowd I was afearing a remake showing the Antifa during the insurrections following St Floyd’s death.
I seem to have a reputation.
I play many things, mostly when people aren’t looking.
To keep everyone at ease, there will be movie posts on the Thursdays R.J. takes well deserved breaks. To terrify everyone, I’m filling in.
It will be Nephtastic!
😱
Mazes and Monsters?
No. I am one of those who will lean into the Christmas season. I try to think the best of my fellow man, regardless of what the news and statistics tell me I should think. This is a season that helps me lean into some optimism.
But they will be free to stream movies, and if the linked streamers pull them down, I can host them.
That sounds like Nephotism, and we cannot allow that!
Draft Day! The least realistic movie ever. Ohio NFL teams select draft picks using a random number generator, not by discussing silly things like talent and character.
Thanks for rockin’ these, R.J.
Thanks to Richard for my sweeeet Glibby buttons!
And thanks to TPTB and y’all for this afternoon, kinda an oddly serendipitous moment, Walgo released right as lunch in my car was ending. Brought a fun smile.
My next Walgovian entry will be about groups of employees I work with and alongside. I’m *very* curious as to what Derp sees, but IIRC he’s got a few more days of orientation.
Thanks for the thank you.
Bethannica found a good choice for the 18th at least. And I have some short subjects to go with it.
14 pieces of flair!
Ethnologists missed a chance to study African folk tales adapted by American slaves. Or maybe they did, but I never heard of any.
“Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was little more than an amanuensis for the local blacks—that his works were really the products, not of white Georgia, but of black Georgia. Writing afterward as a white man, he swiftly subsided into the fifth rank”
…H.L. Mencken
Oh well.
Can you simplify that? I’m befuddled. Might be tired.
No. It’s over educated prog speak from the distant past.
I liked it. It’s not racist.
Thanks RJ! Thanks Bro!
Not watching tonight but I have long suspected the narrative I have been fed my entire life was not accurate, like, you know, almost every other narrative.
Day 2 of the coldening, La jolla cove has frozen over, leaving the seals for easy food. A trip to Baskin robbins secured a stash of peppermint ice cream which will hold us for a while.We on the other side of Grinch mountain and find a caustic drizzle on our windshields and a damp sleep on moist bedclothes. I built a fire from a headboard, maybe that will last til morning
Boy you would not like Oklahoma winter.
There’s nothing to stop the wind…
It’s over 40 in DFW right now, and a frigid 29 in Edmund OK.
🎶 But the wind goes right through you / It’s no place for the old
Unseasonably cold here in NJ and a low of 18 tomorrow AM.
Try northern Michigan, 3 years,
Ill take the frozen surf
14 heading to 9 tonight here.
pOlAr vOrTeX!
Because we need a fancy new scary term to describe bog-standard weather.
/builds Toxteth an Irish Coffee
I tell my kids “they calk it a Polar Vortex now because it sounds scarier than the old name – a ‘norther’ “.
I was working in the 35 degree rain today.
Do not recommend.
More like this around here:
“There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands’ necks. Anything can happen.”
Well Frank settled down out in the Valley and he hung his wild years on a nail that he drove through his wife’s forehead
He sold used office furniture out there on San Fernando Road and assumed a $30,000 loan at 15¼%, put a down payment on a little two-bedroom place
His wife was a spent piece of used jet trash: made good Bloody Marys, kept her mouth shut most of the time, had a little chihuahua named Carlos that had some kind of skin disease and was totally blind.
They had a thoroughly modern kitchen, self-cleaning oven, the whole bit. Frank drove a little Sedan. They were so happy
One night, Frank was on his way home from work, stopped at the liquor store. Picked up a couple Mickey’s Big Mouths, drank ’em in the car on his way to the Shell station. He got a gallon of gas in a can. Drove home, doused everything in the house, torched it, parked across the street, laughing, watching it burn, all Halloween orange and chimney red
Then Frank put on a top 40-station, got on the Hollywood Freeway, and headed north
Never could stand that dog.
nice Chandler, Toxteth
We had some “Little Golden Books” as children and one of them was B’rer Bear, B’rer rabbit and the tar baby.
Same.
Little Black Sambo was a favorite but I can’t remember the story at all any more
Did you ever eat at the restaurant?
We had that one as well, but my dad wouldn’t let us read it. Not because it was racist, but because it was already collectible. He stashed it away somewhere.
I did at some point, I remember.
https://oldlarestaurants.com/sambos/
The tiger runs so fast it turns into ghee.
Our end of year tournament is this weekend and are concerned about moisture, at 55 we get dew and we might slip or even get wet, pray for us
Don’t slip and fall. Results could be traumatic and long lasting.
/Seasoned Slipper and Faller
No kidding, flling is frightening now
Falling
“Have you fallen?” is like question #2 or #3 every time I visit the doc lately.
After a few dozen of these I actually *did* fall recently but it wasn’t because I was dizzy or some shit, it was because I took a stupid shortcut behind a window-washer and slipped in wet grass.
That was 3 or 4 months ago and I think I broke something in my right hand and it still hurts. 😠
Also, Nathan Rabin’s link is hilarious because he’s from Wisconsin and so probably never had many interactions with southern folk. Having come from MN to Houston in the mid-90s, I had a co-worker who grew up in Louisiana and go ahead and tell me no black people (or some white people from that region) talk like that and I will call bullshit. Hell, last time I was in Shreveport, which was only a couple years ago, I heard several Uncle Remus-like dialects. It’s a regional thing more than a color thing, but these assholes live in their urban bubbles and look down on people with accents in general as stupid.
I had an Intro to City Planning class in 1988 and the prof – a black guy – for some mysterious reason one day played a tape of some dude speechifying and asked us to identify the “race” of the speaker. It was a southern white guy who sounded exactly like the impression of us Nawtherner’s (this was in Buffalo) had of any black guy.
From that point on it was obvious to me that culture & “race” are not the same thing.
I spent a full year playing Michigan golf, Im allowed to complain,
/ nice weather