Walt Disney Home Entertainment/Video

Walt Disney Home Entertainment (originally Walt Disney Home Video) is The Walt Disney's Company's video division that was made to release Disney media on VHS, Beta, and other formats later on in the years.

The company first started licensing episodes of Disneyland to MCA Discovision for release in their videodisc line in December 16, 1978. Videodiscs weren't the new wave at the time due to expensiveness of the discs. There were experiments with Fotomat in 1979. During the company's experimentations with MCA, they created a logo for their releases.

On a black background, a bright blue outline of Mickey Mouse quickly zooms up towards the viewer leaving 5 outline trails behind it. They rotate to the left and keep spinning, while the outlines one by one change color to purple, red, yellow, and green as "Walt Disney" is written in Walt's signature font and the Times words,"Home Entertainment" zoom up and settle below as the logo fades away.

Also, they experimented with FBI warnings. They were on a blue background, firts there was the FBI screen with the law next to it (this policy stayed on all Disney videos) on a blue background, then a blue screen saying,"Licensed for Home Private Exhibition Only-" and so forth.

In 1980, Jim Jimirro started Walt Disney Home Video and served as the first president of that division. The early 1980s also led the start of the Disney Channel and other products. The first releases of the company came out in October 1980. They were Mary Poppins, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Apple Dumpling Gang, Pete's Dragon, The Black Hole, The Love Bug, and Escape to Witch Mountain and were released on VHS and Beta.

While keeping the old logo, the division went on to release several more titles for the 1981-82 season and so forth to the 1982-83 season. 1981 bought rental prints of Dumbo and Alice in Wonderland making them the first Disney animated features released on video, finally being made for sale in 1982. Around this time, the company experimented with a variant of the FBI screen with a red background other than the blue one. Tapes in 1982 contained a promo at the end.

In 1983, Disney introduced the Cartoon Classics. These tapes (holding 45-60 minutes of cartoons) began with a revised Walt Disney Home Video logo, cut-off with the slogan,"The Magic Lives On." This revised look of the WDHV logo lead up to new variant with the same new graphics but the words "Walt Disney" in the company font and "HOME VIDEO" in a Pepsi-esque font, this logo stayed until the mid-to-late 1980s.

The Cartoon Classics series used a rare FBI screen saying,"Duplication in Whole or Part of this Cassette is Prohibited." The series spanned 14 volumes going up to 1986. Between this time, a new series of Cartoon Classics called the Limited Gold Editions was released in 1984, and the Limited Gold Editions II in 1985. After discontinuing the new lines in 1987, the last Cartoon Classics batch and the Walt Disney Mini-Classics ran up until the early 1990s.

1984 bought hope for the home video division, the line "Walt Disney Classics" or "The Classics" was created to release animated features on home video due to a large demand. A re-release of Dumbo started the line