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Uncle Remus is the fictional title character and narrator of a collection of African American folktales compiled and adapted by Joel Chandler Harris and published in book form in 1881. Harris was a journalist in post– Reconstruction era Atlanta , and he produced seven Uncle Remus books.
Uncle Remus/Tar Baby; Elmer Elephant; Lady and the Tramp (Little Golden Book, 1988, Teddy Slater Margulies, illustrations by Ron Dias & Bill Langley) Scamp; Donald the Explorer; Mrs. Cackle's Corn; Winnie the Pooh and the Missing Bullhorn (Little Golden Book, 1990, Michael Teitelbaum, illustrations by Russell Schroeder & Don Williams) Pigs Is Pigs
The Uncle Remus film, combining live action and animation and featuring "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah," premiered to criticism and protests. Disney's most controversial movie, 'Song of the South,' opened in ...
The Tar-Baby is the second of the Uncle Remus stories published in 1881; it is about a doll made of tar and turpentine used by the villainous Br'er Fox to entrap Br'er Rabbit. The more that Br'er Rabbit fights the Tar-Baby, the more entangled he becomes. The phrase "tar baby" has acquired idiomatic meanings over the years.
The Silly Symphony Sunday strip ended on October 7, 1945, and was replaced by Uncle Remus and His Tales of Br'er Rabbit. Three of the Silly Symphony stories inspired long-running features in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories. Original Bucky Bug stories first appeared in issue #39 (Dec 1943) and appeared every month for seven years, wrapping up ...
Br'er Fox was voiced by James Baskett, who also portrayed the live-action character Uncle Remus in the film, while Brer Bear was voiced by Nick Stewart. In contrast to the earlier illustrations of Frederick S. Church, A. B. Frost, and E. W. Kemble, the Disney animators depict the characters in a more slapstick, cartoony style. [2]
The Uncle Remus strip began as a "preview" of the Walt Disney Productions film Song of the South, which premiered a year later, on November 12, 1946. [3] Disney had previously released comic strip adaptations of its animated feature films as part of the Silly Symphony Sunday strip, starting with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937–38), and ...
A golliwog in the form of a child's soft toy Florence Kate Upton's Golliwogg in formal minstrel attire in The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg in 1895. The golliwog, also spelled golliwogg or shortened to golly, is a doll-like character, created by cartoonist and author Florence Kate Upton, which appeared in children's books in the late 19th century, usually depicted as a type of ...