Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

History
TBD

“Neon Mickey” releases (1980-1986)

 * List of Walt Disney Home Video "Neon Mickey" releases

Walt Disney Cartoon Classics (1983-1996)

 * List of Walt Disney Cartoon Classics video releases

Walt Disney Classics (1984-1994)
Disney launched the Black Diamond Classics line in 1984 to release their animated films on home video under this line. Before resigning, then-current Disney CEO, Ron Miller, had plans to release their animated classics on home video. The older Disney executives still believed that releasing their animated films on home video would be a little bit risky, despite having released Dumbo, Alice in Wonderland, Fun and Fancy Free, and The Three Caballeros on home video around the early 1980s. The "untouchable" Disney Classics would usually be re-released in theaters around 7-10 years. And the executives thought that if they had the film on videocassette already, they would not go to the movie theater to see it anymore. Plus, it would gamble away from future theatrical revenue.

But by 1984, Walt Disney Home Video was getting increasingly popular, so they decided to release Robin Hood on home video to begin their new Classics line. It was chosen because Robin Hood wasn't one of the more popular Disney animated classics at the time, as evidenced by a 1982 theatrical reissue not doing well at the box office, so it wouldn't be too much of a risk to release it on home video. Robin Hood was released with a suggested retail price of $79.95 on VHS and Betamax and $34.95 on Laserdisc. The tape was also part of Disney's wrap and ready-to-give promotion, since it was released a few weeks before Christmas Day. The release of Robin Hood was a small success, eventually becoming one of the best-selling home video titles in 1984.


 * List of Walt Disney Classics video releases
 * List of Walt Disney Classics demo tapes

Disney's Sing-Along Songs (1986-2006)

 * List of Disney's Sing-Along Songs video releases

Walt Disney Mini-Classics (1988-1994)
Disney launched the Mini-Classics line in May 1988 to release their animated featurettes on home video in the line. Around that time, the company had come up with jumbo packages of releases for the little folks to view during upcoming vacations and summer breaks. With Disney, it was more than price or wrapping--the distinctive and inimitable animation.
 * List of Walt Disney Mini-Classics video releases

Walt Disney Film Classics (1992-1998)
Walt Disney Film Classics was a video line of family live-action films that ran under the Walt Disney Home Video label from 1992 to 1998. Until 1993, it was originally known as the Walt Disney Studio Film Collection. During fall 1994, it was known as the Walt Disney Family Film Collection. It became known as the Walt Disney Film Classics in 1997.


 * List of Walt Disney Film Classics video releases

Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1992-2006)

 * List of Disney's Beauty and the Beast video releases

Disney's Favorite Stories (1994-1996)
Three months and a week after Disney discontinued the Mini-Classics series, they launched a similar series of featurettes on January 10, 1994, called Favorite Stories. Although each featurette runs about 25-40 minutes, this series only included fairytale featurettes and fairytale short subjects and does not include the Winnie the Pooh featurettes, as those were released in the Winnie the Pooh banner.
 * List of Disney's Favorite Stories video releases

Disney's Winnie the Pooh (1994-2005)

 * List of Disney's Winnie the Pooh video releases

Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection (1994-1999)

 * List of Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection video releases

Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection (2000-2001)

 * List of Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection video releases

Disney en Español

 * List of Disney en Español releases

Holiday promotions

 * List of Disney Christmas promotional releases
 * List of Disney Easter promotional releases
 * List of Disney Halloween promotional releases
 * List of Disney Valentine's Day promotional releases

Budget releases

 * List of Disney budget-priced releases

Demo tapes

 * List of Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment demo tapes

September 1986
These releases open with the Video Dealer Announcement and the Sorcerer Mickey WDHV logo, and are the first to do so. The WDW "The Magic That Moves The World" commercial appears at the end of these releases.

November 1986
Excluding One Magic Christmas, these releases open with video trailers for the Classics release of Sleeping Beauty and Flight of the Navigator before the standard Video Dealer Announcement & Sorcerer Mickey WDHV logo.

December 1986
These releases open with video trailers for the Classics release of Sleeping Beauty and Flight of the Navigator before the standard Video Dealer Announcement & Sorcerer Mickey WDHV logo.

January 1987
Excluding Flight of the Navigator, these releases open with video trailers for the Classics release of Sleeping Beauty and Flight of the Navigator before the standard Video Dealer Announcement & Sorcerer Mickey WDHV logo.

April 1987
These titles were released a month after the Disney Store was launched.

"Gold Walt Disney Home Video" releases (1992-2001)
This also includes waves of sell-through video releases not part of Disney's budget lines (which have their own page), whether or not they had the gold Disney logo.

October 1992
Titles re-issued at this time with ink-labels had slightly updated text on the labels.

February 1993
All releases in this batch had only the green warnings and the Sorcerer Mickey logo, with no previews.

August 1993
Alongside the video release of Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, a wave of various Disney TV movie VHS releases was released exclusively for the rental market. These tapes open with a silver version of the gold WDHV logo that crossfades into the tape's first bumper.

September 1994
These sell-thru titles commemorated the video releases of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Rental exclusives
These titles/releases were free to use with rental of any Disney video release.

Promotional tapes
TBD

Location

 * Burbank, California (1980-present)
 * Mississauga, Ontario [Canadian operations through a joint venture with Astral Video] (198?-200?)