Song of the South is a feature film produced by 
Walt Disney Productions, released on 
November 15, 
1946 by 
RKO Radio Pictures and based on the 
Uncle Remus cycle of stories by 
Joel Chandler Harris. It was one of 
Walt Disney's earliest feature films to combine live action footage with 
animation and was the first Disney feature film in which live 
actors were hired for lead roles. The live actors provide a sentimental frame-story, in which Uncle Remus relates the 
folk tales of the adventures of 
Brer Rabbit and his friends; these anthropomorphic animal characters appear in animation. The film is often the subject of controversy, because of content which is considered by some to be 
racially insensitive towards 
African-Americans. It has never been officially released on 
DVD or 
home video in the 
USA, and is thus subject to much rumor and speculation.