Disney's Remaining Films

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by BillieCassin

Apparently, a few years back Iger held a private screening to review it (if I recall, he hadn't ever actually seen it), and decided that it stays in the vault. I do give the guy credit for at least checking it out as a possibility, though.

It is a shame, it does have historical value - but I shu' nuff can't see no way 'round it.

And....he turned out to be one of those dopes who still think Remus was a "slave".
I can take OTHER clueless Disney pop-misinterpretations, but we've lived for more than 12 Years with that one...
(The time period is never mentioned, not once, but it's been privately said to be postwar Sharecropper Reconstruction, which would account for how Remus could take all that flak for not working so much.)

At this point, he thinks it's "idealism" not to release the disk, and publicly jokes about the fans hounding him about it at the stockholders' meetings.
But since he announced his retirement for '15, South fans have kept the "Iger Retirement-watch", as he seems to be one of the only few white people at the company that still keep that dopey urban legend going.

[RBBrittain]

Originally Posted by EricJ

And....he turned out to be one of those dopes who still think Remus was a "slave".
I can take OTHER clueless Disney pop-misinterpretations, but we've lived for more than 12 Years with that one...
(The time period is never mentioned, not once, but it's been privately said to be postwar Sharecropper Reconstruction, which would account for how Remus could take all that flak for not working so much.)

At this point, he thinks it's "idealism" not to release the disk, and publicly jokes about the fans hounding him about it at the stockholders' meetings.
But since he announced his retirement for '15, South fans have kept the "Iger Retirement-watch", as he seems to be one of the only few white people at the company that still keep that dopey urban legend going.

I don't think Remus himself is the problem; I understand it's the live-action sequences based on the old Southern "Dunning school" view of Reconstruction, which modern-day historians totally reject under the assumption (IMO not correct, though there is some truth to it) that it was just a cover for the Jim Crow era which followed.