In this sense, while it might be a memorable film for many of us, it is not exactly 'a film that has a place in film history'-in the sense of a film that marked the evolution of cinema as an art form (in fact, most film history books don't even mention it). It also fails to combine the Disney fary-tale animated stories and the period movie a-la GONE WITH THE WIND, which appear forcefully glued together. the unexplained separation of Johnny's parents, his dad's mysteriously controversial articles). However, it is also a film that suffers from a poorly written script, with secondary storylines left undeveloped ( e.g. Said that, I do agree with the idea that SONG OF THE SOUTH has its own merits, particularly in terms of animation and its combination with live action.

I think we all end up being very biased when we try to evaluate Disney movies-perhaps because they will always be inevitably connected to the nice memories of our first viewing experience as children. I'm honestly pleased he included American folk tales along with the litany of European ones represented in all his other works. This was Disney bringing a series of classic stories and novels to the big screen just as he did with virtually ALL of his early films. This was not Disney's attempt to gloss over the past in the 40's. The stories, the way people are speaking, the depiction of conditions are all directly taken from those stories. The Music Man was a happy little film about a man committing felony fraud on an entire town's population.Īs has already been stated in prior reviews, this film was based on existing content, a collection of stories - most of which were from African American families living in the south during Reconstruction. Do you honestly think that chimney sweeps in Edwardian England went around dancing and singing happily as they toiled away on the roof tops at night? Most of them were child laborers working for pennies a day. Obviously it was going to depict things in an artificially rosy light. Let's not forget, this is NOT a documentary, it was a fictional film and a musical. Amazing that this was Walt Disney's first live-action film. Here on was the first time I've actually had the opportunity to watch the film in its entirety. I grew up in the 90's watching songs like Zippity Doo Dah on Sing-Along-Song tapes but with none of the context of the actual film.

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