"with Uncle Remus, and his tales of Brer Rabbit" • Set in the deep South during the era of Reconstruction, seven-year-old Johnny is looking forward to a vacation at his family's plantation. Johnny is distraught to learn that his parents will be living apart and he must spend his time with his mother and grandmother and has never been apart from his father before. In the night, Johnny decides to sneak out to Atlanta where his father has gone and soon comes across his Uncle Remus who begins telling him the stories of Brer Rabbit and how a few adventures of his relate to Johnny's life. presenting Ruth Warrick, Bobby Driscoll, James Baskett [with his honorary Oscar®], Luana Patten; and Lucile Watson, Hattie McDaniel, Eric Rolf, Glenn Leedy, Mary Field, Anita Brown, George Nokes, Gene Holland, "Nicodeus" Stewart, and Johnny Lee. Animation Director: Wilfred Jackson • Photoplay Director: Harve Foster. Screenplay by Dalton Reymond, Morton Grant, and Maurice Rapf; Original Story by Reymond; Based on the Tales of Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris. Music Director: Charles Wolcott • Score by Daniele Amfitheatrof for photoplay, and Paul J. Smith for animation • 9 songwriters, including the Oscar®-winning "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" - Remus' song that opens up the animation. from Walt Disney Productions; Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. Photographed in Technicolor Approved [No. 11163]/rated G [starting from the 1971 theatrical reissue]. Copyright MCMXLVI Walt Disney Productions All rights reserved.