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Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment began its life in 1978 through MCA DiscoVision as "Walt Disney Home Entertainment". In 1980, Disney content was made available on videocassette under its own division known as "Walt Disney Home Video". Prior to 1981, their first releases were only live action films such as Pete's Dragon and The Love Bug.
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- 1st Logo (December 1978-September 16, 1986)
- 2nd Logo (International Variant) (Early 1983-March 1987)
- 3rd Logo (Australia and New Zealand Variant) (April 1982-1992)
- 4th Logo (December 3, 1984-July 16, 1985)
- 5th Logo (September 23, 1986-November 6, 2001)
- 6th Logo (International Variant)(April 1987-December 1988)
- 7th Logo (September 26, 1995-May 6, 2003)
- 8th Logo (Korean Variant) (1992-2000s)
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment began its life in 1978, through releases they distributed via MCA DiscoVision, as "Walt Disney Home Entertainment". Disney began to prioritize videocassette releases in 1980 following the decline in popularity of DiscoVision, and changed their subsidiary name to "Walt Disney Home Video". Prior to 1981, their f...
Nickname: "Neon Mickey"
Logo: Here are the two standard variants of this logo:
•December 1978-July 1984, 1985: On a black background, we see a large light blue outline of Mickey Mouse's silhouette appearing and then panning forward, leaving a trail of multiple outlines while rotating counterclockwise on its pivot. The outlines then start to change one-by-one to dark blue. As the text "Walt Disney" (in the original Disney signature script, as used on The Wonderful World of Disney) sketches on the screen in yellow, the Mickey outlines one-by-one change to red. The outlines again one-by-one change to golden yellow (which quickly changes to light yellow) as the words "Home Entertainment", in yellow, zoom up and settle underneath. Last but not least, the Mickey outlines one-by-one change to green.
•November 1981-September 1986,: Nearly the same as the 1978 version, but with darker colors and Mickey graphics shifted upwards, the "WALT DiSNEY" text in the current corporate "Disney" font, and with "HOME VIDEO" in a Handel Gothic-like font in orange.
Trivia: The rotating "Neon Mickey" is a silhouetted image of the animatronic Mickey conductor that was used in the former Walt Disney World and later Tokyo Disneyland attraction "The Mickey Mouse Revue".
Variants:
Nicknames: "Walt Disco Home Video," "The Wonderful World of Disney Home Video"
Logo: A flash occurs. The face of Mickey Mouse in his then current drawing style zooms in, which quickly turns neon, then we see brief clips from Disney films and shorts such as Steamboat Willie, Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi, Alice in Wonderland, Zorro, Old Yeller, Treasure Island, The Country Bear Jamboree, and The Absent Minded Professor. Donald Duck's neon head zooms in, then a wall of light appears, Mary Poppins floats down with her parasol, then Tinkerbell flies up with sparkles forming. We see a picture of a neon castle with fireworks in the background. We zoom into it, then we zoom in to a vector-like rendition of Epcot. Afterward, we go to a black/dark red gradient background. The "WALT DiSNEY" text zooms up from the top, then "HOME VIDEO", also in blue, appears below, cheaply inserted. The whole thing sparkles and glows a little bit.
Variants:
•Sometimes, the screen flips down like if you were turning a page in a book. Either it would flip to reveal the into to the program (like on the 1985 UK VHS of The Adventures of Chip 'N' Dale), or it just flips to a black screen (like on the 1986 US Spanish-language VHS of Winnie Pu y Tigger and on certain Venezuelan tapes, the latter as a clip-on).
•Sometimes, "presents", in lowercase or uppercase, will fade in below, written in the language of the country in which it was released. The font of the text will also depend on the country. Italian tapes used "PRESENTA" in a bold, narrow font. Spanish tapes also used "PRESENTA", but in a cheaper narrow font. Finnish tapes used "ESITTÄÄ" in the same font as the Spanish version. There is another font that is bold, friendlier, more Disney-like. It is used in Swedish tapes ("presentera"), Danish tapes ("præsenterer"), French tapes ("présente") and German tapes ("präsentier"). The font for the latter is smaller. There is also another version with the word "PRESENTERIANIS" in a bold sans-serif font. It is currently unknown what that language is, and has appeared on a bootleg tape with what appears to be an Spanish-Italian mixed language. A version including "presents" in English is seen on tapes from Australia and the United Kingdom (and most likely New Zealand and South Africa as well).
•On some tapes, "HOME VIDEO" is omitted.
Logo: Against a white background, we see the usual Walt Disney Home Video text from before in blue, with "HOME VIDEO" in a Century Gothic-esque font. "distributed by" appears below in very small print. It then cuts to one of the two Roadshow Home Video logos used during the 1980s. For tapes that were released from 1982-86, the "Aussie Light Trails" logo is used; tapes from 1986-92 used "The Other V of Doom".
FX/SFX: None.
Music/Sounds: None.
Availability: Seen at the end of most Aussie and New Zealand PAL tapes of Disney material distributed through Roadshow Home Video (Young Again instead uses the Disney Premiere Cinema logo). The last known release to use it was Goodbye, Miss 4th of July.
Logo: Against a black/blue background is the "WALT DiSNEY HOME VIDEO" text, and underneath it is "PRESENTS", spaced out and in a serif font.
Variant: On a black background, the above WDHV text in white is seen for a few seconds, and then it fades out and "PRESENTS" is shown for a few seconds; the font depends on the tape, and the text is not spaced out.
FX/SFX: None.
Music/Sounds: None.
Nickname: "Sorcerer Mickey"
Logo: On a black background, we see Mickey Mouse dressed in his Sorcerer’s Apprentice outfit from Fantasia, standing on a blue spotlight in the background. The camera slowly begins zooming up to his hand as the stars and crescent moon on his hat flash one-by-one, and then a magic spark flashes and appears above Mickey’s hand. We zoom past Mickey as the spark begins swirling around and begins to write "WALT DiSNEY" in the corporate Disney font in red. As we zoom out, the words "HOME VIDEO", also in red and in the same font as before, zoom out and settle underneath "WALT DiSNEY".
Variants:
•The logo "shines". The text may vary from a magenta color (which seems more common) to a regular red color (as in picture #1) or a vermilion color (as in the "ALSO FROM" variant picture).
•Sometimes, this logo is shown without Mickey, leaving a blank space until the spark writes out the words. This was seen on the 1990 VHS of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and on a Japanese VHS of Treasure Island.
•Sometimes, "presents" in white, or in all-caps "PRESENTS" in 3D red, fades in below. The "presents" version has it fading in with spark effects, while the "PRESENTS" variant has it simply fading in without sparks. On some rare occasions, this is seen blacked out or covered with a gray box on some tapes. The former variant appears on early tapes with this logo, as well as on Wonderworks episodes and several tapes of The Adventures of Spot. The 'PRESENTS' variant appears with a different font on the UK rental VHS of The Hunted. On the UK VHS of The Ghost of Cypress Swamp and the 1988 rental VHS of Pinocchio, "PRESENTS" appeared in a light blue, bold and round font.
Logo: We see clips from the 1983 opening of the Disney Channel, Walt Disney anthology series and Disney films, including Fantasia, Peter Pan, Mary Poppins, The Black Cauldron, Sleeping Beauty, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Black Hole, Dumbo, Condorman, Return to Oz, and Tron. After a brief clip of Sorcerer Mickey from Fantasia, we fade into the WDHV logo on a space background, with the logo in blue/purple gradient. The logo shines and zooms out after.
Variant: Most tapes would have this logo ending with the 3rd domestic logo, starting with the spark animation.
FX/SFX: The archive footage, the logo shining and zooming out.
Music/Sounds: A synthesized instrumental version of "Casey Jr.", from Dumbo.
Nicknames: "Gold Walt Disney Home Video", "The Gold Text"
Logo: On a black background, we see the golden words: "
with "WALT DiSNEY" in the corporate "signature" font. The words shine.
Trivia: This is an enhanced version of the 1986 Walt Disney Home Video print logo. Prior to 1995, the logo was only used on 1990s live-action Disney films and on advertisements for Disney videos. A Goofy Movie was the first animated film to have this logo.
Variants:
•Sometimes, a gradient blue background would be used instead. It has been seen on the video releases of Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, Hocus Pocus, Cool Runnings, The Three Musketeers, Squanto: A Warrior's Tale, A Goofy Movie, The Santa Clause, James and the Giant Peach, Air Bud, The Spirit of Mickey, a trailer for Tom and Huck, and the 1994 print of Disney's Sing Along Songs: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
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Nicknames: "The Korean Castle", "Magic Kingdom", "Disney Logo of Korea"
Logo: Just the second half of the then-current movie logo, but with a few differences. Instead of "PICTURES", we see the words "Walt Disney Home Video" in Korean fading in below the company name. The circular line does not even form.
Trivia: This logo is the South Korean equivalent of the 1991 WDHV logo.
FX/SFX: The second half of the then-current movie logo, minus the ball of light drawing the line.
Music/Sounds: None.
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Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. Background: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment began its life in 1978 through MCA DiscoVision as "Walt Disney Home Entertainment". In 1980, Disney content was made available on videocassette under its own division known as "Walt Disney Home Video".
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Logo: On a black to dark blue gradient background, the words "Feature Presentation", in a white to light blue gradient color, seperately zoom in from the top and bottom of the screen, respectively, and meet in the middle. After a second, the logo shines. FX/SFX: The words flying, the shining, and connecting.
5.12007–present. Walt Disney Home Entertainment (first era) 1978–1984. This version has a silhouette of Mickey Mouse in the background, which is known as "Neon Mickey" to many video collectors. 1978–1979. File:Disney HE logo.gif. This was used for titles released by MCA DiscoVision from 1978 to 1979. Walt Disney Home Video. 1980–1986. 1984–2001.
Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. (doing business as Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment) is the home entertainment distribution arm of the Walt Disney Company. The division handles the distribution of Disney's films, television series, and other audiovisual content across several home media formats, such as Ultra HD Blu-ray , Blu-ray ...
