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One of the most popular attractions at either Magic Kingdom in the States is Splash Mountain<\/b>. (My company actually did engineering work on the one in Anaheim. Could I tell you some wild stories. But I digress.) <\/p>\n

Anyway, while Splash Mountain is popular because it’s a fun flume ride, the window dressing on the ride is the tale of Br’er Rabbit (though somewhere in the translation to the Disneyverse the apostrophe was dropped). <\/p>\n

The Disney connection there is with the Disney film you will never see on VHS, let alone on DVD. Song of the South<\/a> <\/i>was an early (1946) Disney foray into mixing live action and animation, based on the book by Joel Chandler Harris with the tales of Uncle Remus. It also has, so I am led to believe, some portrayals of blacks and race relations that are quite un-PC. Not in a mean way or a violent way — this is Disney, after all — but condescending, paternalistic, insulting to modern sensibilities. <\/p>\n

I don’t know for sure, because I’ve never seen it. And likely never will in this country. Though evidently the tape is available in the UK and Germany.<\/p>\n

So standing I line for the ride Sunday, I see one kid asking his mom what “brer” means. She doesn’t know. I also hear a couple discussing how it’s all based on, uh, the Oz <\/i>books. <\/p>\n

Disney has a valuable property here, and they can’t do anything with it. Heck, they couldn’t even re-edit and PCize the movie, because half the vocal populace would yell at them for knuckling under, the other half for not going far enough. <\/p>\n

It is a puzzlement. It is a shame. And it is a fun (bowdlerized<\/a>) ride, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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