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hey, for anyone who loves Splash Mountain but has never gotten the opportunity to see the inspiration behind the ride, buy the Alice in Wonderland Masterpiece Edition DVD. I have seen the movie Song of the South (only through a downloaded copy from the internet since I was not even born yet when it came out) and I've got to say that after seeing the 3 cartoons in the movie, the whole idea of Splash Mountain makes SO much more sense.

Today I happened to be looking at the special features of my Alice in Wonderland DVD, and one of the features on Disc 2 titled One Hour in Wonderland suprised me. The feature is a recording of one of Walt Disney's 1950 shows for TV (in black and white) where this famous ventriloquist (i don't know his name...i forgot) and his puppets travel to the Disney studio. There is a Christmas party going on there (it was Christmastime when the show aired in 1950) and some Disney stars are there. Walt is there, Katherine Beaumont (voice of Alice), Bobby Driscoll (from Song of the South, So Dear to My Heart), the Disney daughters, and so on. Anyways, Walt says that he has a suprise and he unveils the magic mirror from Snow White.

Walt asks the mirror to show them things, and the mirror shows some cartoons, The Firehouse 5 Plus Two, and stuff like that. Bobby Driscoll asks the mirror to show him a tale from Uncle Remus (fitting, right). then the mirror shows a segment from Song of the South. The segment includes Uncle Remus singing Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah (the whole sequence), which flows into the first cartoon in the movie which is the Rabbit Trap cartoon.

Now this cartoon inspires only 3 things from the ride Splash Mountain (Brer Rabbit leaving home, Chikapin Hill, and Brer Bear in a rope trap), but I encourage anyone who wants to see it to see it. It really makes you mad that Song of the South was labeled "unfit" for America, and it gave me hope that it will come out this year (as is rumored). So check it out cuz it's world class animation and actually pretty funny!