It is being widely reported that Disney’s new streaming service “Disney+” will not include their Academy Award winning and controversial movie Song of the South, contrary to Disney CEO Robert Iger’s quote that Disney+ would “house the entire Disney motion picture library.”

Ironically, the new streaming service is set to launch on November 12th, the anniversary of Song of the South’s worldwide premier in 1946.

It has also been reported that Disney will be censoring another piece of company history as well: the crows from Dumbo (1941). If so, this would join several other films from the 1940s that Disney has decided to edit over the years, including scenes and elements from Fantasia (1940), Make Mine Music (1946), and Melody Time (1948).

Disney Legend Whoopi Goldberg was interviewed at the D23 Expo in July 2017, and had this to say about both films:

“I’m trying to find a way to get people to start having a conversation about bringing Song of the South back, so we can talk about what it was, and where it came from and why it came out. I want people to start putting the crows, you know, in the merchandising. Because those crows sing the song in Dumbo that everybody remembers. So I want to… I want to highlight all the little stuff people sort of maybe miss in movies.”

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