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'''Walt Disney Classics''' was a brand name of [[Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment|Walt Disney Home Video]], created in 1984 to release features from the Disney Animated Features canon on video. The first release from the line was ''Robin Hood'', and more soon followed, including ''Pinocchio'', ''Dumbo'', ''The Sword in the Stone'', ''Alice in Wonderland'' and others, to great success. In 1990, following the box office success of ''The Little Mermaid'', the Classics line released it to video, and began releasing a mix of older animated films and more recent Disney animated films. In 1994, after the video release of ''The Fox and the Hound'', the Classics series was discontinued and replaced with a newer series, the [[Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection]]. Tapes released in the Classics series are often referred to as the "Black Diamond Classics" by VHS collectors, in reference to the black diamond logo on the spine of each release. Although the Classics series was discontinued, the international versions (which included the select live-action/traditionally animated hybrid films as well) remained active in their respective international countries until the 2010s.

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'''Logo:''' On a {{color|blue}} background, the text "{{color|red|WALT DiSNEY HOME VIDEO}}" (with "{{color|red|WALT DiSNEY}}" in its famous “signature” font), in {{color|red}}, swirls in from the upper-left corner of the screen, rotating clockwise as it does so, passes by quite close to the screen, then flips and begins cycling to the lower-left corner. A few seconds after the "{{color|red|WALT DiSNEY HOME VIDEO}}" the white text, “THE CLASSICS”, in a neon-style Binner D font, also comes from the upper-left side of the screen and begins slowly spinning, too, nearly following the same path as the WDHV text does. As this happens, the background begins to slowly “morph” into a large, blurry diamond shape on a black background. A large Prussian blue diamond then zooms in from the center of the screen at a slightly fast pace, before stopping at a huge size. As the diamond zooms up, “THE CLASSICS” flips over to the top of the diamond and settles there, while "WALT DiSNEY HOME VIDEO" lands on the bottom of the diamond. A white, neon-style diamond outline zooms out and plasters itself onto the edges of the diamond, in which the logo resembles a neon sign.

====2nd Logo (October 4, 1988-September 21, 1994, February 28, 1996, 2003)====

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'''Logo:''' We start with the opening animation of the 1986 Walt Disney Home Video logo, with Mickey Mouse dressed in his Sorcerer’s Apprentice outfit from ''Fantasia'', standing on a {{color|blue}} spotlight on a black background. The camera slowly begins zooming up to his hand as the stars and crescent moon on his blue hat flash one-by-one, and then a white starburst flashes and a magic spark flies out from it, appearing 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, except it is metallic white. As we zoom out, the background begins to change to dark blue, and a black diamond with metallic edges fades in from a far point and begins to slowly zoom in, as “CLASSICS”, also in metallic white and in the Binner D font with two letters at both ends in a bigger size, begins zooming out from the bottom of the screen, before that and “WALT DiSNEY” settle on the diamond, which has zoomed up to a comfortable distance. The edges begin to glow white as the shadow of the "WALT DiSNEY CLASSICS" text drops on the diamond, and then a magic comet swishes into view from the bottom left of the screen, circles behind the diamond, then flies out from the top right and passes in front of the diamond before flying offscreen, leaving a trail of pixie dust that changes the "WALT DiSNEY CLASSICS" text to {{color|gold}}, and adds a purple tint (flamingo pink in the 1989 variant) to the diamond’s edges. The logo "shines".