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Posted by unclejr on 03/12/06 10:32
Bernie Woodham wrote:
> Here is the full question/answer quote as posted on www.songofthesouth.net:
>
> "My name is Howard Cromer. I live in Cypress, I'm a Disney shareholder. I'm
> actually delivering a message from my son, 10. He wants to know in recent
> years, in the midst of all your re-releases of your videos, why you haven't
> released Song of the South on your Disney Classics?" [Applause] "And, he
> wonders why. Frank Wells told me many years ago that it would be coming out.
> Well obviously Frank Wells isn't around anymore, so we still wonder why. And
> by the way, Mr. Iger, he thinks it was a very good choice when they made you
> CEO of Disney." [Applause]
>
>
> Iger: "Thank you very much. You may change your mind when I answer your
> question, though. Um... we've discussed this a lot. We believe it's actually
> an opportunity from a financial perspective to put Song of the South out. I
> screened it fairly recently because I hadn't seen it since I was a child,
> and I have to tell you after I watched it, even considering the context that
> it was made, I had some concerns about it because of what it depicted. And
> thought it's quite possible that people wouldn't consider it in the context
> that it was made, and there were some... [long pause] depictions that I
> mentioned earlier in the film that I think would be bothersome to a lot of
> people. And so, owing to the sensitivity that exists in our culture,
> balancing it with the desire to, uh, maybe increase our earnings a bit, but
> never putting that in front of what we thought were our ethics and our
> integrity, we made the decision not to re-release it. Not a decision that is
> made forever, I imagine this is gonna continue to come up, but for now we
> simply don't have plans to bring it back because of the sensitivities that I
> mentioned. Sorry."
Thanks, Bernie. I completely forgot to look at Christian's site for
any information on this.
-Junior
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