We talked with the creator of 'You Must Remember This' — one of the best podcasts on Hollywood history — about her new season, all about Disney's racist 1946 film 'Song of the South'
, which tells the long-forgotten stories of old Hollywood. As Longworth recounts in the first episode of this six-part season, which premiered on Tuesday, despite many of the film’s defenders claiming it was a “product of its time,” the film garnered backlash from many black activists immediately after its release.
Such criticism, however, did not deter Disney from re-releasing the film four times between 1956 and 1986. Although it was never released on home video format, the company continues to capitalize off some of the content in the film to this day, most notably by including its signature song “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” in sing-alongcompilations and by using it as the inspiration for its iconic theme park attraction Splash Mountain, which opened in 1989.
You make the point that the film wasn’t as much “a product of the times” as its defenders claim — given that, why do you think it was made in the first place? In the 1940s, Disney assumed the people protesting were disingenuous and a small portion of the ticket-buying populace. Disney was coming off this period where the animators had gone on strike, and [Walt] had become extremely paranoid about Communism. He assumed Afircan-Americans had been brainwashed by Communists, so he didn’t take that kind of protest seriously, and he didn’t think it spoke for his ticket-buyers, who I think he assumed were mostly white.
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