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Disney’s Most Controversial Film (Six Degrees of Song of the South, Episode 1) — You Must Remember This

Disney’s Most Controversial Film (Six Degrees of Song of the South, Episode 1) — You Must Remember This

SHOW NOTES:  

Sources for the whole season:

Walt Disney by Neal Gabler

Disney’s Most Notorious Film: Race, Convergence, and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South By Jason Sperb

Birth of an Industry by Nicholas Sammond

Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

White Screens/Black Images by James Snead

Slow Fade to Black by Thomas Cripps

Making Movies Black by Thomas Cripps

Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood by Donald Bogle

Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films by Donald Bogle

Joel Chandler Harris: A Biography and Critical Study by Bruce R. Bickley Jr.

Sources specific to this episode:

Who’s Afraid of the Song of the South by Jim Korkis

“What’s the Historical Background of ‘Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah’?” by Debi Simons, September 10, 2018, https://www.behind-the-music.com

“10 Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Facts About Song of the South” by Stacy Conradt, November 12, 2016, http://mentalfloss.com

Diversity in Disney Films: Critical Essays by Johnson Cheu

“The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life” by Steven Watts, The Hollywood Reporter, April 22, 2019

Music:

The music used in this episode, with the exception of the intro and outro, was sourced from royalty-free music libraries and licensed music collections. The intro includes a clip from the film Casablanca. The outro song this week is “Controversy” by Prince.

Excerpts from the following songs were used throughout the episode:

Laurent Edmond Gaston Bacri & Jean-Louis Négro – Snow White & The Dwarves
Laurent Edmond Gaston Bacri & Jean-Louis Négro – Tic Tock Clock
Johnny Pearson – Disney Land
Frank Bernard Woodbridge – Creepy Corner Ghost
Jahzzar – Railroad’s Whiskey Co
Paul Martin Pritchard – Wandering Nights
Daniel Horacio Diaz – Fancy Footwalk
John Greaves – Serie Noir
Gooding, Charlie H. Bisharat & Jennifer Anne Wood – The Late War
Joel Vandroogenbroeck – Ghost Town
Joel Vandroogenbroeck – Chain Production
Marc-Olivier Nicolas Dupin – Lola Lola
Alexandre Stephane Rusian Toukaeff, Baptiste Vayer – Serene Pastoral Folk Blues
Daryl Neil Alexander Griffith – Freestylin’
Daniel Horacio Diaz – The Setup
Prince – Controversy

Credits:

This episode was written, narrated and produced by Karina Longworth.

Editor: Jared O’Connell.

Research and production assistant: Lindsey D. Schoenholtz.

Social media assistant: Brendan Whalen.

Logo design: Teddy Blanks.

Article by:Source- Karina Longworth

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