A Look at a Rarity: An In-Store Trailer Reel, c. Fall 1992

See that treasure above? I got my hands on it today...

WDHV '92

Since a certain Disney animated film just hit Blu-ray recently, I figured I'd look at a series of title cards Walt Disney Home Video used in the early 1990s...

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.

Another '88 Classics Logo Spotting

Thanks to fellow Disney VHS collector MrServoRetro, we now know of another Disney VHS tape that contains the 1988 Walt Disney Classics logo...

Classics Confusion

The Classics line is full of questions, more so than any other line reserved for Disney animated features in the company's home video history…

Title Confusion

Recently, Warner Bros. released Edge of Tomorrow on home media. It's a film that you may have missed in the theaters, because the marketing campaign that the studio put together for it wasn't very good. I remember looking at the trailers and saying, "Generic sci-fi action film." The marketing campaign failed to emphasize certain elements, such as the film's dark sense of humor or Emily Blunt's character. Tom Cruise fights aliens…

Rainbow Vista Stuff

In 1978, a familiar face happened to turn 50 years old…

Why No Title Card?

Walt Disney Home Video has had a rather weird habit of editing the opening title cards out of feature films, and in fact they still somewhat do this to this day. Yes, this kind of ties in with their recent egregious logo plastering (basically, replacing the original logo with a more current one), but as far back as the good ol' days, you didn't get all of Disney's films in 100% complete form. I mean, yes, it's only a logo… But the absence of the logo means you're missing a tiny portion of the complete film.

Jumpy Tapes

Disney VHS tapes from Argentina will be the focus of this piece…

Custom Classics Covers

So recently, I've been making custom Disney VHS covers. Covers of films that never existed, I decided to somewhat add to the alternate histories I've posted and am currently writing. If you saw my last update, you'll know started with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and what a mid-80s era video release of it could've looked like…

A Current Side-Project

It's been a while folks, but I began working on a new project today: Custom Disney VHS covers to go alongside an upcoming alternate WDHV history piece!

Here's a preview of a 1984 VHS of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs that kicked off the Classics line in an alternate timeline…

More to come, more to come…

UPDATE: July 15, 2014

Close to completion…

'Twas a lot of fun!

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

A

WALT DISNEY

HOME VIDEO

WHAT-IF?