A Case of... 'Lady and the Tramp' European VHS Tapes

Today, I received a copy of the 1990 French VHS of Lady and the Tramp / La Belle et le Clochard...

The Case of 'The Jungle Book' Demo Tape and Other Things...

Two years ago, my Disney VHS collector friend Aubrey got a copy of the demo VHS of The Jungle Book. The one that was made to promote the film's Classics release, the video debut of the 1967 classic...

Why The Classics?

What is it us Disney videocassette collectors love so much about this line?

Updated Custom Disney VHS Covers Post

Last year, I began designing covers for Disney animated films. Covers that would make them fit alongside the Walt Disney Classics series that Walt Disney Home Video launched in 1984, the very line that brought many of the animated classics to home media for the first time...

Today's Oddity

From the 1991 Italian VHS release of The Rescuers comes this... Thing...


Yes, a weird version of the 1986 Walt Disney Home Video logo, where the text is set against a moving rainbow background... Oh, and "HOME VIDEO" is chopped off, too! It's set to an instrumental take on the 'Mickey Mouse Club March', and we get to see it twice, too!

Like really, this is all kinds of bizarre right here. I'm not sure if this ever showed up anywhere else outside of Italy, though I'd doubt it. Nonetheless, a very cool find.

Mystery Solved! … and What The Heck Was That?

Hello all, hope you all had a fine Christmas or holiday, and I hope your year is off to a great start! Though this surfaced the day after Christmas, I finally got around to watching it last night and boy was it a real surprise… And head scratcher!

The Dumbo Anomalies

Walt Disney's Dumbo was theatrically re-released four times prior to its home video debut in 1981. Its first theatrical re-release was in 1949, which was the first part of a double-bill with the 42-minute Saludos Amigos. Then Walt Disney showed an edited version of the film on the Disneyland television series in 1955, but the film was still theatrically re-released after that. One notable re-release was in 1976, as the film was on a double-bill with Australian live-action Disney production Ride a Wild Pony. (The film had been released in its home country a year earlier.)

International Disney VHS Tapes

No Diamonds Across The Atlantic

In the UK, the Walt Disney Classics logo was never used for preceding the feature presentation of Disney's animated classics on video. The 1984 logo? Nope. The 1988 one? Nada… Same goes for pretty much all European tapes.

But wait, it did appear a couple of times!

The Classics Logo... Examined!

A couple of days ago, this very logo turned 25 years old... The Walt Disney Classics logo.

Spark Sounds

Is the music that was used in the famous Walt Disney Home Video that appeared on several videotapes between 1986 and 2001 part of something else?

A Walt Disney Home Video What-If? - Ep. 1: The Classics

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WALT DISNEY

HOME VIDEO

WHAT-IF?