Walt Disney Classics: Difference between revisions

*On a rare promo sales tape for the 1984 VHS release of ''Robin Hood'', the start of the tape features a golden vault door zooming in from the middle, taking up the entire screen as it does. The vault door's handle then rotates around and the door opens, revealing a blue background. The rest of the logo plays as usual, albeit reused animation of Tinkerbell from the 50th Anniversary Walt Disney Pictures logo comes in to transition to a different, shinier diamond frame with clips of various Disney animated films in them.

*One scene of the aforementioned tape also has the last few seconds of the logo where the diamond zooms in, but the background is black instead of blue. The glowing blue outline of the diamond from the background fades in after the logo is fully formed. This appears to be of a prototype version.

'''FX/SFX:''' The swirling text, the background change, the zooming diamonds.  It appears to be computer-generated graphics with chroma-keyed photos for "THE CLASSICS" and the white diamond at the end.

*At the beginning of the aforementioned ''Robin Hood'' promo sales tape, the music is in a slightly higher pitch. This also had a whoosh growing louder as the door zoomed in, and the sound of metal locks moving and a small snippet of the beginning at the tune before the logo started.

* On a rare Disney promo sales tape from 1985 promoting the VHS release of ''Pinocchio'', an announcer says, "The Disney Classics: Landmark animation made available for the first time from Walt Disney Home Video!"

'''Availability:''' Rare, as it was only used for a short period of time. Seen on 1984-1987 VHS and LaserDisc prints of Disney animated features including the original video releases of ''Pinocchio'' and ''Robin Hood''. Usually, it is in clamshell packaging (originally in big, black, heavy clamshells with the artwork printed directly onto the case, but switching over to the lightweight, white clamshells with removable inserts we are familiar with today in 1986), with the cover featuring a black flap on the lower right corner reading "The Original Animated Classic!", and often has the diamond print logo on the spine (without WDHV text) and on the videotape label (with WDHV text). The last video to officially use this logo was ''Lady and the Tramp''. This logo has also been spotted on some post-1987 prints, including a 1993 reprint of ''The Sword in the Stone'', and the mid-1988 demo tape of ''Cinderella''. On black clamshell tapes of ''Dumbo'', as well as very early prints of the black clamshell release of ''The Sword in the Stone'' and earlier prints of the mid-1986 slipcover release of ''Alice in Wonderland'', the 1981 WDHV Neon Mickey logo is seen (the latter had the 1984 Classics logo replace the Neon Mickey logo on prints from circa late April 1986). Although the logo is seen on the cover, Australian releases do not use this logo; they use the 1986 "Sorcerer Mickey" logo or the 6th logo.

'''Editor's Note:''' A very primitive logo with cheesy computer effects, but still memorable amongst Disney fans and VHS collectors, and considered endearing because of its cheesiness. This logo also appears to have "THE CLASSICS" and the outline photographed and chroma-keyed from real neon signs, and it was actually a real sign which was seen on display in stores, albeit of the print logo. For the 4th variant (the prototype variant), the use of "National Trust" during its scene fits rather well with the animation, so could this be the original theme?

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