This morning someone sang: "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah." Another person continued with: "Zip-A-Dee-A." Then I chimed in with: "My oh my, what a wonderful day."I learned that the song came a 1946 Walt Disney filmed called Song of the South. The film is based on the Uncle Remus cycle of stories. The live actors provide a sentimental frame story, in which Uncle Remus relates the folk tales of the adventures of Brer Rabbit and his friends. These anthropomorphic animal characters appear in animation. The film inspired the Disney theme park attraction Splash Mountain.
The film has never been released in its entirety on home video in the U.S., because of content which Disney executives believe would be construed by some as racist toward black people.
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