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THE BOOTLEG FILES: “SONG OF THE SOUTH”

By | September 2003

Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the funky world of rare, classic and hard-to-find films which can only be obtained via bootleg video channels. This week, it’s Disney’s happy and tuneful slavery musical–“Song of the South”!

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