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Don't have any pictures of it, but the Disneyland Resort's WonderGround Gallery also is currently selling a painting featuring Brer Rabbit. It's an amalgam of visuals from both the 1955 Fun Map and the intro to the Disneyland television show.
 
LittleBuford

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TomboyJanet said:
However In the film Remus is NOT a slave as I have said, he is a sharecropper. He is free to leave as you can see he almost does but changes his mind. The truth is that no matter where you went as a black man it was a difficult life at that time period. I think they handled it the best they possibly could
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If audiences in 1946 found aspects of the film cringeworthy and problematic, the bolded clearly isn’t true. You can look into the film’s production history if you’re interested in learning about Disney’s various missteps, which included ignoring the recommendations of a black adviser to make the black characters less servile as well as failing to clarify the film’s chronology, confusion over which was rife from the outset.
 
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LittleBuford said:
If audiences in 1946 found aspects of the film cringeworthy and problematic, the bolded clearly isn’t true. You can look into the film’s production history if you’re interested in learning about Disney’s various missteps, which included ignoring the recommendations of a black adviser to make the black characters less servile as well as failing to clarify the film’s chronology, confusion over which was rife from the outset.
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I don't know how problematic they found it, it was successful enough to make a ride out of, as well as many childrens books including one my dad used to read me as a child. That sentimentalism may possibly influence my decision but It just kinda sucks because I really miss my dad and this is kinda like another thing we shared that's dying. My dad always just told me that it was a southern accent and since I've never been to the south outside of Disney World and the version of it in Cypress Gardens (now Legoland), I just assumed that's how it was.

There is still a lot I don't know about the behind the scenes of the original movie, but I feel like the characters could be used in a different way
 
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TomboyJanet said:
I don't know how problematic they found it, it was successful enough to make a ride out of, as well as many childrens books including one my dad used to read me as a child. That sentimentalism may possibly influence my decision but It just kinda sucks because I really miss my dad and this is kinda like another thing we shared that's dying. My dad always just told me that it was a southern accent and since I've never been to the south outside of Disney World and the version of it in Cypress Gardens (now Legoland), I just assumed that's how it was.

There is still a lot I don't know about the behind the scenes of the original movie, but I feel like the characters could be used in a different way
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I don’t think liking the stories makes someone racist. I myself watched the film multiple times growing up and thoroughly enjoyed it. The only point I’m trying to make is that the film has come with baggage from the outset, and Disney has apparently given up on trying to work around this troubled legacy.
 
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