RE: Song of the South

Gary Handman (ghandman@library.berkeley.edu)
Tue, 13 Apr 1999 08:38:13 -0700 (PDT)

There's a Japanese release of Song of the South...not, alas, available in
this country. I've been trying
to get globetrotting faculty person to score a copy for years...wonder what
"zippity-doo-dah" translates to
in Japanese.

Gary Handman
UCB

At 07:58 AM 04/13/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>This may be apocryphal, but I was always told that, because of the claims
>of racist depiction in this, the Disney lawyers insisted that it be
>withdrawn from active distribution as a film, and of course, never put out
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Gary Handman
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Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
UC Berkeley 94720-6000
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