# Walt Disney's "SONG OF THE SOUTH"-Forbidden to be Shown?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walt-disneys-song-of-the-south-forbidden-to-be-shown/149796>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** movies, disney-hulu\
**Created:** [January 20, 2003, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walt-disneys-song-of-the-south-forbidden-to-be-shown/149796 "2003-01-20T14:18:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walt-disneys-song-of-the-south-forbidden-to-be-shown/149796/61 "2003-03-14T00:57:35Z")

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The voice of the Big Bad Wolf was redubbed. In the original, he had a Yiddish accent. In the redubbed version, he was a Fuller Brush salesman, without the Yiddish accent.

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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walt-disneys-song-of-the-south-forbidden-to-be-shown/149796/62 "2005-02-24T20:37:09Z")

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It looks like it [may be coming out on DVD](http://www.jimhillmedia.com/mb/articles/showarticle.php?ID=1313)! :eek: 🆒 Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Indeed.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walt-disneys-song-of-the-south-forbidden-to-be-shown/149796/63 "2020-10-24T21:19:57Z")

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Bumped.

> **[Classic Disney films now have stronger advisories warning of racist content |...](https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/16/media/disney-racist-warning-scli-intl/index.html)**
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> Disney+ subscribers who log on to watch classic films like "Lady and the Tramp" or "Peter Pan" now see stronger advisory messages warning of racist content.

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**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walt-disneys-song-of-the-south-forbidden-to-be-shown/149796/64 "2020-10-26T18:37:22Z")

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> [@80sHairMetalMaven](#):
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> I think that’s how it was done, but since IANAFE,I don’t know. More than likely they used ‘green screen’ and shot the actors against a green backdrop and added the colored background in later.
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> IDBB

Disney had a camera with a prism that allowed them to remove yellow, so for some of their movies they used a yellow screen.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walt-disneys-song-of-the-south-forbidden-to-be-shown/149796/65 "2020-10-26T18:41:18Z")

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Use of a Green Screen is something that came in with TV’s “ChromaKey” technology. Before that they used Blue Screens, and even earlier, yellow or orange screen (When King Kong broke through te gates in 1933, there was a sheet illuminated with orange light behind those huge doors). It was only important to have a color that could be easily identified and removed.

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