Sadly, on April 15, Maurice Rapf passed away at the age of 88. Rapf, along with Dalton Reymond and Morton Grant, were the creators of Song of the South‘s screenplay. Rapf was a well-known screenwriter, co-founder of the Writer’s Guild of America, and professor emeritus of Dartmouth College’s film studies department. He will be missed. (Thanks to Mark Kratzner for the report.)