Song of the South is a feature film produced by
Walt Disney Productions, released on
November 15,
1946 by
RKO Radio Pictures and based on the
Uncle Remus cycle of stories by
Joel Chandler Harris. It was one of
Walt Disney's earliest feature films to combine live action footage with
animation and was the first Disney feature film in which live
actors were hired for lead roles. 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 is often the subject of controversy, because of content which is considered by some to be
racially insensitive towards
African-Americans. It has never been officially released on
DVD or
home video in the
USA, and is thus subject to much rumor and speculation.