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Download The Song of The South


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2023 Mar 4, 2:15pm   453 views  19 comments

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And preserve this cancelled Feature for the future. A movie that combined animation and live action with award winning original musical performances.

https://archive.org/details/SongOfTheSouth_Disney

Disney has wiped it from everything.

Alex Haley is full of shit.

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1   Patrick   2023 Mar 4, 2:29pm  

Is there a download link there?
2   richwicks   2023 Mar 4, 4:11pm  

Patrick says

Is there a download link there?

It's on the right hand side. Just do a text search for "Download".

@Patrick - the quality of the copy is pretty awful, and I think it's from a video tape. IF you want a better quality copy, I can provide it.
3   HeadSet   2023 Mar 4, 5:06pm  

richwicks says

IF you want a better quality copy, I can provide it.

If possible, could you make that copy available to others? I loved that movie when I was a kid.
4   richwicks   2023 Mar 4, 5:29pm  

HeadSet says

richwicks says


IF you want a better quality copy, I can provide it.

If possible, could you make that copy available to others? I loved that movie when I was a kid.

@HeadSet - yes I can. It will take me a bit to set it up. I'll ping you tomorrow. That work?

The file will be around 2 GB.
5   Ceffer   2023 Mar 4, 5:35pm  

In Disney's updated version, Uncle Remus is a Tranny Uncle Reamer.
6   HeadSet   2023 Mar 4, 7:31pm  

richwicks says

HeadSet - yes I can. It will take me a bit to set it up. I'll ping you tomorrow. That work?

Perfectly! I appreciate that.
7   PeopleUnited   2023 Mar 4, 7:52pm  

When the gestapo starts coming for people with illegal downloads (it is still legal today, but probably will be a hate crime before long, banned with other seditious and unpatriotic publications such as Dr. Seuss and the Bible) it will be an interesting day at which time you will be faced with the choice, own nothing and be happy, or own your soul but lose your head. We are living in a version of 1984, rewriting history just like Winston.
8   richwicks   2023 Mar 4, 7:53pm  

HeadSet says

richwicks says


HeadSet - yes I can. It will take me a bit to set it up. I'll ping you tomorrow. That work?

Perfectly! I appreciate that.


I'll provide TWO files. One is better quality, but lower resolution, the other is higher quality, but is not restored. You can play each and decide if you want to get both or just one.

I normally archive old stuff that is "banned", and I had a copy of this at one time, and I was like "where the hell did I put it?" - and now I know why I didn't keep it around. There are no really good copies around. Eventually somebody will restore it, but not in the current climate. I know it was well received in Europe and nobody thought anything about it being "racist". Maybe that's changed.
9   komputodo   2023 Mar 4, 8:01pm  

How come nobody names their sons REMUS anymore?
10   AD   2023 Mar 4, 8:26pm  

Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
My, oh, my, what a wonderful day
Plenty of sunshine headin' my way
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay!
Mister Bluebird's on my shoulder
It's the truth, it's "actch'll"
Everything is "satisfactch'll"
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
Wonderful feeling, wonderful day!
Yes, sir
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
My, oh, my, what a wonderful day
Plenty of sunshine headin' my way
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay!
Mister Bluebird's on my shoulder
It's the truth, it's "actch'll"
Everything is "satisfactch'll"
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
Wonderful feeling, feeling this way!
Mister Bluebird's on my shoulder
It is the truth, it's "actch'll", hm?
Where is that bluebird?
Everything is "satisfactch'll"
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
Wonderful feeling, wonderful day!
11   richwicks   2023 Mar 4, 8:38pm  

HeadSet says

richwicks says


HeadSet - yes I can. It will take me a bit to set it up. I'll ping you tomorrow. That work?

Perfectly! I appreciate that.

Hey @HeadSet - I found this: https://archive.org/details/Songofthesouth4K

That's actually restored, but it's HUGE. It's 26 GB. I'll use that as the source. That's the LEAST bad version I could find. It's actually in 2K video, which is ridiculous, I'll reduce it to 1080p.
12   richwicks   2023 Mar 4, 10:46pm  

HeadSet says


richwicks says


HeadSet - yes I can. It will take me a bit to set it up. I'll ping you tomorrow. That work?

Perfectly! I appreciate that.



@HeadSet - Alright, you can pick it up at:

https://samoyed.dynu.net/~misc

RIGHT click it to save it. Place it on a USB drive, and if you have a fairly modern television, it will play on it fine. You should have a USB port somewhere on your television. I know you can plug a USB drive into a ROKU box as well, so if you have that...

It's an AI upscaled version of the film I believe. There's some errors, but it's the least worst version I can find. I just downgraded the version from https://archive.org/details/Songofthesouth4K which you can still get if you wish, but the 4K version is in .mov format (like anybody uses this anymore). I converted it to 1080p and mp4, which should work on nearly any conventional television. Just copy to a USB drive, and plug it in.

I will leave this online for 2 days - if you don't pick it up by then, you'll have to ping me. I'll remove it by then. You have 48 hours to grab it. I'll delete this post as well in 48 hours.

It's around 1.9 GB, so it may take some time to download for you, but you will not overload my server. Given what is "typical internet" today, you can probably get the full file in about 1/2 hour or less.
13   AD   2023 Mar 4, 11:50pm  

richwicks says

I know it was well received in Europe and nobody thought anything about it being "racist". Maybe that's changed.


Germany is more Woke than the USA so I expect they "culture cancelled" the movie Song of the South before Disney did.

.
14   richwicks   2023 Mar 5, 12:46am  

ad says


richwicks says


I know it was well received in Europe and nobody thought anything about it being "racist". Maybe that's changed.


Germany is more Woke than the USA so I expect they "culture cancelled" the movie Song of the South before Disney did.

.



I know a few Germans, and they are all actual Germans. I never asked them specifically about the film, but my impression is they would have thought nothing about it. Also, it's an English film, I doubt they are even aware of it. There's plenty of Germans I've talked with that have never heard of Run! Lola Run! - or Lola Rennt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_Lola_Run

That's a cult classic. I used to be a film buff, but engh, it was entirely a waste of my youth. Now when I watch a film, I see actors obviously acting, and a story I've seen in some form or another before. I no longer have the capacity for suspension of disbelief. I quit watching movies and television ages ago, and any acting, I can now see right through. I can still enjoy radio plays and books though, to some extent.

Song of the South in the United States is now seen as racist, there's no context in Europe.

The grim reality of the "Civil War" (or the War of Northern Aggression) is that when slaves were "freed", they had nowhere to go, they couldn't get work, and they starved to death. Millions died. The civil war wasn't about ending slavery, it was about taxation and tariffs. Lincoln was a big asshole and we're taught bullshit about the period. I'm not defending slavery, but the abolishment of it caused a humanitarian crisis, for black people. It was a humanitarian crisis on MANY levels. It should never have happened. Slavery would have ended in time and should have been by more gentle means. Every other nation managed it, except the United States, and it was incidental, not the goal.
15   komputodo   2023 Mar 5, 10:52am  

richwicks says

HeadSet - Alright, you can pick it up at:

https://samoyed.dynu.net/~misc

thanks
16   HeadSet   2023 Mar 5, 11:58am  

richwicks says


HeadSet says


richwicks says


HeadSet - yes I can. It will take me a bit to set it up. I'll ping you tomorrow. That work?

Perfectly! I appreciate that.



HeadSet - Alright, you can pick it up at:

https://samoyed.dynu.net/~misc

RIGHT click it to save it. Place it on a USB drive, and if you have a fairly modern television, it will play on it fine. You should have a USB port somewhere on your television. I know you can plug a USB drive into a ROKU box as well, so if you have that...

It's an AI upscaled version of the film I believe. There's some errors, but it's the least worst version I can find. I just downgraded the version from songofthesou..."=
target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://archive.org/details/Songofthesou...


I downloaded both your .mp4 and that .mov version, THANKS!!

I guess the reason the restored original is in .mov format is the restoration work was likely done using Apple's Final Cut Pro. Final Cut Pro defaults to Apples proprietary .mov (quicktime) video protocol, although it is easy enough to export to mp4 and others from Final Cut Pro.
17   richwicks   2023 Mar 5, 12:18pm  

HeadSet says

I guess the reason the restored original is in .mov format is the restoration work was likely done using Apple's Final Cut Pro. Final Cut Pro defaults to Apples proprietary .mov (quicktime) video protocol, although it is easy enough to export to mp4 and others from Final Cut Pro.


Well, I used ffmpeg to convert to mp4, which will be compatible with your television, if it has a USB port. This is the command I used:

nice ffmpeg -i "Song of the South (4K Remaster).mov" -vf scale=1080:-1 -metadata title="Song of the South" -crf 26 -acodec copy -movflags faststart "Song of the South (1946).mp4"


You might want to play with the hue a bit, it's kind of pinkish. FFMPEG is a wonderful tool but it's not really meant to be used on the command line so much, but it's extremely powerful, and everybody uses it.
18   pudil   2023 Mar 5, 1:17pm  

Just last night I was poking around the old movie’s on Disney+ (I know, it’s canceled now, but I got a year subscription for cheap).

Almost all of the old movies from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s had a content warning about how culturally insensitive they are, even though they are G rated.

Any movie pre 2010 that has non-white people in it gets this warning. It’s the most racist thing I’ve ever seen.

And then they put trans kids in hocus pocus 2. When are they going to start putting in warnings for that?
19   Karloff   2023 Mar 5, 1:21pm  

Handbrake is a multi-platform tool with an easy to use front-end for transcoding videos. Uses ffmpeg and other programs in the back-end.

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