Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (2024)

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. Prior to 1981, their first releases were only live-action films such as Pete's Dragon and The Love Bug. Starting in 1981 with Dumbo, they began releasing their animated films and cartoons on video as well. The Walt Disney Home Video name was kept until 2001, when the division was once again renamed Walt Disney Home Entertainment. In 1997, the company began producing DVDs, and in 2006, they started to release Blu-ray discs. The division took on its current name in 2007. It was the last major studio that still released home video products on VHS, doing so until 2007.

1st logo (1978-1984)[]

Visuals: Nearly the same as the Walt Disney Home Entertainment (1978-1981) logo, but with darker colors and the Mickey graphics shifted upward somewhat, the "WALT DiSNEY" text in the current corporate "Disney" font, and with "HOME VIDEO" in a thin, orange Handel Gothic font, all usually with a drop shadow. The entire logo is also much smaller.Variants:

• The original 1983 series of the Walt Disney Cartoon Classics videos featured a different variant of this logo. The animation plays as normal (the standard 1981 Walt Disney Home Video variant), but without any text animation, plus the music is sped up somewhat and plays in a slightly higher pitch as a result. Once the Mickey outlines become golden yellow, the screen "flips" over to another logo, which is a still shot of "WALT DiSNEY HOME VIDEO", with "The magic lives on…" over it. The Disney text is in its corporate font in golden yellow, while the other text is light blue. The only animation in this part is the "WALT DiSNEY" text, which has glitter effects all over it, and then the text flashes when the Cartoon Classics theme begins playing. The logo then fades into the intro for the video series.
• On the "Walt Disney and You" promo, a video freeze occurs towards the end of the logo (all the outlines are dark blue except for the outline facing the camera. which is light blue), and the gold text "The magic lives on... WALT DiSNEY HOME VIDEO" zooms in, along with a cartoon version of Sorcerer Mickey (as seen on the box). The promo's announcer says "Now available from Walt Disney Home Video".
• On some Italian tapes, a light blue VHS cover is seen on a wooden table, with the "WALT DiSNEY HOME VIDEO" print logo and the cartoon version of Sorcerer Mickey on it. Then it opens to reveal the logo's animation, which plays as normal.
• On international tapes, the logo does not have a drop shadow and is shifted lower, so that the text is now centered. The fanfare is also in a low tone.
• Releases of Disney Channel original programming & films from the time, such as Lots of Luck and Welcome to Pooh Corner: Too Smart for Strangers, use a special version. It is detailed on the Disney Channel Originals page.
• A Swedish variant has the 1981 logo with the text in yellow and "PRESENTERAR" in a narrow serif font inserted below.

Technique: Rotoscoped cel animation.

Audio: Same as the Walt Disney Home Entertainment logo.

Audio Variants:

• On international releases, such as tapes from the UK (eg, the 1982 UK release of Bedknobs and Broomsticks, the 1983 UK release of Song of the South), Australia, Japan, etc., the fanfare plays at a lower pitch.
• The "Walt Disney and You" promo had the end theme playing over the regular animation before the video freeze.

Availability: Seen on Disney videos from the period, almost exclusively used in the United States and Canada.

• The best way to find it is to look for a Disney video (usually VHS, but some on Betamax, and also LaserDisc and CED Videodisc) with white clamshell packaging with a small Sorcerer Mickey print logo above the film's artwork which is usually surrounded with a colored border. The color of the border varies depending on the film and the genre of the film. However, early releases with this logo use the home entertainment artwork.
• The versions on the Cartoon Classics series as well as the "Walt Disney and You" promo are rare, since that promo was only seen between 1982 and 1986.
• It also showed up on the earliest prints of the Classics releases of Dumbo, Alice in Wonderland, and The Sword in the Stone, but some later prints prior to October 1986 replace it with the first Walt Disney Classics logo from 1984.
• This doesn't appear on the VHS releases of Trenchcoat, Something Wicked This Way Comes (in fact, the only mention of Disney in any shape or form on these two releases is on the tape label), and Never Cry Wolf (likely due to the somewhat mature content of said films).
• The last tapes to use this were Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N., One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing, Unidentified Flying Oddball, and Moon Pilot.
• This logo also appears on select reprints of Disney VHS releases from this era that lacked updated tape masters, including a 1993 reprint of Treasure of Matacumbe.
• This also appears on the first batch of Spanish-language tapes released in the United States by Disney in 1985, including Dumbo, Mary Poppins, Mi amigo el dragón (Pete's Dragon), and Los Tres Caballeros (The Three Caballeros); however, Spanish-dubbed tapes released after March of the next year used the next logo--the only context in which Disney used that one in the United States.
• Outside North America, this logo appears on very early VHS, Betamax, V2000 and LaserDisc prints of Disney material, such as Australian releases from Syme Home Video (usually preceding a promo reel), including the 1982 Australian VHS of Night Crossing, the pre-cert UK releases of Cartoon Festival III, Fun and Fancy Free, Pete's Dragon and Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Swedish and Japanese releases, among others. It was used until at least July 1983 in the UK and in tandem with the next logo in Australia until 1985.
  • The Italian variant of the logo was identified by the Disney Tapes & More website as having been presented on VHS, Betamax and V2000 tapes of Pete's Dragon. However, a few pre-1983 Italian VHS releases, such as The World's Greatest Athlete, use the normal Neon Mickey logo instead.
  • Other British pre-cert releases that had or may have had this logo were Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, Fun and Fancy Free, Robert Altman's Popeye, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Cat from Outer Space, Condorman, Davy Crockett, The Black Hole, The Island at the Top of the World, The Gnome-Mobile, The Love Bug, Swiss Family Robinson, the original 1965 version of That Darn Cat!, the 1975 edit of the 1950 version of Treasure Island, Blackbeard's Ghost, Mickey's Golden Jubilee, The Million Dollar Duck, Herbie Goes Bananas, The Ugly Dachshund, Donald Duck Goes West, Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N., Never a Dull Moment, the first UK video release of Song of the South (a title that never received a video release in the US), The Boatniks, One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing, and The Small One. The website pre-cert.co.uk notes that all of these were released by Disney in the UK between roughly November 1981 and July 1983.
  • This makes an appearance on the 1987 "Absolutely Irresistible" promotion re-release of Pete's Dragon, as well as the 1989 Israeli VHS of Popeye.

2nd Logo (1983-1987)[]

Visuals: On a black background, a light flashes in the middle of the screen with a pink glow and halo around it, with particles being released around it to form a stylized tunnel effect around it. From the center, Mickey Mouse's head, styled like the one used before his shorts, zooms in with a blue aura to it before quickly turning into a neon orange/flamingo pink sign and flashing brightly as it engulfs the screen. It then transitions to a neon blue square tunnel covered in gridlines, and a rectangular frame that plays the following animation:

On a cloudy sky photo that zooms in, a still of Mickey in Steamboat Willie zooms and tilts into place with a orange glow to its edges, and then a still of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs featuring the titular characters does the same thing. It then transitions via a X-shaped split to a still of the Evil Queen holding up the Heart Box, of which it zooms into it with a sparkle effect, and then zooms out to reveal a still of Pinocchio, with the sparkle acting as the Blue Fairy's magic. It then transitions via an ping of light and a rectangular wipe effect to stills of Fantasia, Bambi, and Alice in Wonderland, in that order. It then cuts to an a shot of Disney's Zorro zooming out, doing his signature pose on his horse with a blue glow while a evening cloudy sky zooms in behind him, and then shows stills of Old Yeller, Treasure Island, and The Country Bear Jamboree, also in that order, flying in from the top, then bottom, then top respectively. It then cuts to a recreation of a scene in The Absent Minded Professor, where Professor Brainard's flying car (also with a blue glow) flies above town, and then finally to another sky photo with various Disney characters slowly moving about.

After the final clip plays, Donald Duck's face zooms in a similar way to the Mickey head at the beginning, including turning into neon, and then cuts to a black background bordered by two walls of light, with Mary Poppins floating down on her umbrella and Tinker Bell flying upwards and flashing brightly as sparkles fly around her. It then fades to a dark blue background with a light blue horizon at the bottom, and a heavily saturated picture of Cinderella Castle from Walt Disney World is seen with neon fireworks going off around it. The camera slowly zooms in at first, but then quickly through the gate as it turns into a outlined neon sign and shoots out its trails before fading to a elaborate neon vector model of Spaceship Earth, colored in orange and flamingo pink, and the camera flies right above it. From here, it fades to a black/dark red gradient background, and the blue text "WALT DiSNEY" flips in from the top the top of the screen, with a gradient effect in the text, and then "HOME VIDEO" appears below, using the same Handel Gothic font from before. The whole thing sparkles and glows a little bit.

Trivia: This is the shortened version of the US/Canada opening of the 1981-83 version of The Wonderful World of Disney back when it was called, quite simply, Walt Disney. The main difference is that "HOME VIDEO" is obviously not there on the intro.

Variants:

• Intro Variants:
  • A 1-minute long version exists. While the beginning and end are the same, although slowed down a bit, the middle portion is extended with more stills and animated clips, more tunnel designs, and more transitions with Pluto's head and a neon orange tunnel. This was used in the first showings of the TV series.
  • A variant has the extended version play for 15 seconds before it cuts to Cinderella's Castle. At the end, after "WALT DiSNEY" slides in, the word "PRESENTS" in a glowing gold Disney font flips in from the bottom.
  • For the 1980s syndicated series "Disney Magic" (with the title logo replacing the tail end of this logo after the zoom into the castle), the logo featured a few different clips and a neon flying Dumbo added, along with a short preview of the following movie.
• Home Video Logo Variants:
  • Sometimes, "presents" text will fade in below, written in the language of the country in which it was released. The font of the text also seems to depend on the country. Below is a list of the countries who use this separated by their font usage:
    • Tall, narrow font in all uppercase: Italy, Spain, Finland
    • Bold, rounded font in all lowercase: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France, The Netherlands, Germany.
    • A version with "presents" in English has appeared on tapes from Australia and the United Kingdom (and most likely New Zealand and South Africa as well). [Examples?]
  • Later on, during the zoom into the castle gates, the logo cuts to the 5th logo. This variant can be seen on some Scandinavian Disney tapes released in 1986 and 1987 (examples are the 1986 Finnish and Swedish VHS releases of The Sword in the Stone).
    • Another version of this variant, as seen on a European Spanish promotional VHS release for the Disney Channel, ends with simply the logo shining. Another version of the Spanish variant has the logo change into the 4th domestic logo, but this time it has "PRESENTA".
    • An Icelandic version exists, where the word "KYNNIR", in a large font, zooms out with "HOME VIDEO".
  • On at least a few Australian releases, the logo disappears, leaving the background for a few frames.
  • Sometimes at the end, the screen flips to the left as if the viewer were turning a page in a book. It would either flip to reveal the intro 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 (Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too) and on certain Venezuelan tapes, the latter as a bumper).
  • On Japanese VHS, LaserDisc and VHD releases, a version appears with a copyright notice saying "© Walt Disney Productions" in a handwritten variant of the Walt Disney font.
  • A version of the logo where the actual logo doesn't appear is seen on the UK pre-cert VHS releases of Night Crossing, Tron, The Last Flight of Noah's Ark, and Escape to Witch Mountain.
  • On the VHS release of Donald Duck's 50 Crazy Years, the text "DONALD DUCK'S 50 CRAZY YEARS" appears in place of the logo, in a jumbled up outlined font.
  • A variant with "SILLY SYMPHONIES" in a shinier text than usual appearing at the end of the logo has been spotted. This was seen on the UK VHS release simply titled Silly Symphonies.
  • On the Italian Cartoons Disney tapes, the logo cuts to a screen with the title of the tape and a copyright stamp.
  • Normally, this is sped up to 25 FPS to better fit the PAL format (why the 25 FPS framerate is retained for NTSC releases is unclear), but Cartoons Disney 1 showed this at its original 24 FPS framerate.
  • On some early Japanese tapes and at least one Mexican tape, a still variant appears with a "©[YEAR] WALT DISNEY PRODS." copyright stamp.
• On the 1983 pre-cert UK VHS of Night Crossing, the "WALT DiSNEY HOME VIDEO" text is not present.

Technique: Slit scan and Oxberry animation, accompanied with animated clips. Spaceship Earth was a vector CGI model animated on a Hewlett Packard desktop computer at Northrop Corporation (now Northrop Grumman). This sequence was designed by Harry Marks.

Audio: A powerful disco version of "When You Wish Upon a Star", arranged by Frank Gari. A soft phaser noise plays when "WALT DiSNEY" flies in as well. While it plays at its full length in the television series, the logo has the theme fade out when "HOME VIDEO" fades in (possibly to remove the announcer from the intro).

Audio Variants:

• On the first airings of the Walt Disney TV series, the original track was extended.
• On the 1984 UK VHS release of Goin' Quackers, when the WDHV logo itself appears at the end, Ludwig von Drake says "Walt Disney Home Video presents" and cuts to his introduction to the program.
• The second Spanish variant with the 5th logo animation has the music looping, with it fading out.
• On some tapes distributed by Abril Vídeo in Brazil, an announcer says "Abril Vídeo, apresenta!"
• On the Italian VHS release of Cartoons Disney 1, the music is in the original NTSC pitch.
• On the 1986 release of Saludos Amigos, the opening theme plays over the last few seconds.

Availability: It was (almost) exclusively used on releases outside North America.

• This can be found on tapes released in the United Kingdom, European, Asian and Latin American territories, as well as Australian, Japanese, and even South African releases.
• The first UK releases with this logo were The Apple Dumpling Gang, Candleshoe, Escape to Witch Mountain, The Incredible Journey, The Last Flight of Noah's Ark, Mary Poppins, Night Crossing, No Deposit, No Return, Return from Witch Mountain and Tron, all of which were released in the UK in October 1983 according to pre-cert.co.uk.
• Japanese VHD releases are known to have this logo.
• The only releases in the United States to use this logo was on mid-late 1986 Spanish-dubbed tapes, such as Saludos Amigos (which wouldn't see an English-language release in North America for 14 more years), Winnie Pu y el árbol de miel (Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree), and Winnie Pu y Tigger (Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too).
• The "flipping" variant appears on U.S. Spanish tapes and The Adventures of Chip 'n' Dale, and the tail end appears during a series of trailers at the end of a Spanish-subtitled Venezuelan tape of El abismo negro (The Black Hole) as a bumper.
• It also appears on the 1985 UK pre-cert VHS releases of The Roots of Goofy and Sport Goofy, respectively, as well as the first Japanese videocassette releases of Touchstone's early features.

3rd Logo (1984-1985)[]

Visuals: On a black/blue gradient background, the text "WALT DiSNEY HOME VIDEO" is seen in white, with "WALT DiSNEY" in the corporate "signature" font and "HOME VIDEO" in the Helvetica Rounded font. Underneath it is "P R E S E N T S", spaced out and in a serif font.

Trivia: The July 1985 variant is notable for being the first ever Disney-related logo or bumper to use the Bruton Music stock piece "Great Ovation", composed by Steve Gray. This would be used on the "NOW YOU CAN OWN THESE HIT TITLES" variant of the gold WDHV logo, but is most well known for playing over the lilac "Feature Presentation" bumper on many Disney releases.

Variants:

• On the 1985 Pinocchio sales pitch promotional video and the 1985 VHS release of Mousercise, this logo is seen on a black background, with the text in white. After a few seconds, the text fades out and "PRESENTS" is shown for a few seconds; the font depends on the tape, and the text is not spaced out.
• A light blue variant of this logo appears on the VHS trailer for Flight of the Navigator.
• A promotional tape has the logo in a space background, and a light/dark blue gradient background.
• Italian trailer tapes have the logo on a purple background and and "Presenta", along with the title of the tape written at the bottom in white.

Technique: A digital graphic.

Audio: None. The first time the logo fades in on the preview tape of The Sword and the Rose, an announcer says "Coming from Walt Disney Home Video in July!" accompanied by the first few notes of "Great Ovation". The logo is accompanied by music from the trailers it accompanies for the remainder of the tape.

Availability: The standard version is only seen on Disney's DTV series of music video collections released in the period. The alternative versions are seen mostly on early demo tapes.

4th Logo (1984-1986, 1999-2001)[]

Visuals: Just the text "WALT DISNEY HOME VIDEO" on a black background. After a few seconds, the text fades out, and the text "presents", in the same font, fades in.

Variants:

• 1984-1985: The text is in plain Helvetica. On the Walt Disney Limited Gold II: The World According to Goofy VHS, the font is bolder.
• 1985-1986: The text is in the same font as before, but in all caps. On The Walt Disney Comedy and Magic Revue VHS, the letter "S" is slightly bigger that the rest of the text. On the Disney's Greatest Lullabies Vol. 2 VHS, the text is smaller and slightly spaced out.
• 1986 (Coming Soon): The logo uses a slightly different version of the gradient background from the 4th logo. The text uses different weights of Helvetica Neue and reads "Coming Soon from Walt Disney Home Video".
• 1999-2001: The text is set in Helvetica Rounded Bold. The logo transitions to the The Wonderful World of Disney logo.

Technique: Still digital graphics with simple fade effects.

Audio: None. For the The Wonderful World of Disney variant, the music accompanying the rest of the trailer plays in the background as an announcer says, "Walt Disney Home Video proudly presents."

Availability: The 1984 variant, like the fourth logo, was usually either a simple replacement for the 1st logo on releases that Disney felt that logo wouldn't fit on, or used before content that was exclusive to VHS at the time. It was seen on 1984-1985 VHS releases of The Mickey Mouse Club (appearing after the 1st logo) and on the 1985 VHS release of The Walt Disney Comedy and Magic Revue. The 1999 variant appears on VHS releases of several live-action Disney films that aired on The Wonderful World of Disney; select demo releases like the 2000 Touchstone VHS of Play It to the Bone also featured this logo.

5th Logo (Late 1991-2002)[]

Visuals: The words "WALT DiSNEY HOME VIDEO", in a metallic gold color, appear on a black background and shine.Variants:

• Sometimes, a blue gradient background would be used instead. It has been seen on the VHS releases of Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, The Mighty Ducks, 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, the 1994 and 1995 versions of the Disney Family Video Sampler, and the 1994 print of Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
• A variant with a solid blue background appears on a Holiday 1992 in-store loop tape.
• One variant has the logo in silver. The lowercase text "presents" is seen below it, in the same font as the "presents" text in the 5th logo, and shines along with the logo.
  • A completely still version of the silver variant was used on 1993 VHS releases of Disney TV movies, which fades out halfway through the music. Afterwards, blue text reading "Own This BIG HIT" (preceding a trailer for Homeward Bound) or "Now Available on Videocassette" in the font used for bumpers from the time fades in as the music ends.
• At the beginning of The Spirit of Mickey, the text fades out, leaving the blue background before an iris transition to the main theme.
• On the VHS promo for The Big Green, the background is a green gradient.
• A version with "A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM" above the logo exists.
• On a 1994 promo for Disney's Bright Beginnings VHS collection (which consisted of releases of preschool-targeted shows from Jim Henson Productions and DiC and assorted videos from Spot and Eric Carle), the background is a sliding rainbow gradient, and "PRESENTS" is chyroned in below.
• There is a still variation with the text "NOW YOU CAN OWN THESE HIT TITLES..." fading in above the logo. This can be seen on 1992 re-prints such as Return to Snowy River, Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken and The Rocketeer, and uses the 1989 FP theme ("Great Ovation" from the Bruton Music library).
• There is a still variant seen at the beginning of the Jungle 2 Jungle VHS trailer.
• On TV spots for the VHS release of Tarzan, the logo is superimposed over a scene from the movie.
• A "Disney PRESENTS" variant appears in the VHS trailer for Doug's 1st Movie.
• On Gativideo-distributed Argentine tapes, the logo animates as usual, but it splits at the end. This usually happens before a bumper or a commercial.
• On a commercial for Fantasia, "Available now on LaserDisc" fades in below the logo.
• A VHS promo has the logo zoom towards the viewer.

Technique: 2D animation.

Audio: A synthesized four-note horn/string tune, which sounds somewhat like the "Great Ovation" Feature Presentation theme; also used on various bumpers from the time. None for the Gativideo variant. Was used in many bumpers domestically and internationally.

Audio Variants:

• On the 1998 US DVD release of Air Bud, the logo is silent.
• A version of this logo's music that is slowed to roughly two-thirds its usual speed was used sporadically around 1993 to 1998, on tapes like The Mighty Ducks (rental pressings only), Tiny Toy Stories, Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Honor to Us All, Pocahontas II: Journey To A New World, and the 1997 widescreen VHS of Sleeping Beauty.
• On the Australian VHS releases of Hocus Pocus (Abracadabra) and Aladdin, and some Region 4 VHS releases, the music is high pitched (possibly due to being in PAL format). This was also spotted on the UK VHS release of Dinosaur, as well as some Italian VHS tapes.
• The "Special Announcement" variant has an announcer saying "A special announcement from Walt Disney Home Video".
• On the DVD release of Recess: School's Out, the music is played at a lower volume.
• At the beginning of the home video trailer for Doug's 1st Movie, the first note of the background music is perfectly synchronized with the first "shine" of the logo.
• At the beginning of the trailer for Walt Disney Film Classics: The Fantastic Adventures Series, the trailer's music plays over the silver variant.
• On the still silver variant, the slower version of the theme is used. When the "Own This BIG HIT" text fades in, Brian Cummings says "Now you can own this big hit." The "Now Available on Videocassette" version has Brian Cummings calmly saying "Now on videocassette." as the text fades in.
• On the 1998 VHS release of The Black Cauldron, the normal music plays over the longer version, which ends earlier.

Availability: Seen on releases from the company from this time period until 2002, with it still in use in Argentina until 2006. Internationally (except in Argentina), this was mostly seen on trailers, most prominently during the 8th logo's lifespan.

• The logo's first general appearance was on TV spots for the 1991 Classics release of The Rescuers Down Under. The first VHS sighting was on the "NOW YOU CAN OWN THESE HIT TITLES..." bumper on May 27, 1992. The logo with music debuted on the September 1992 demo VHS of Newsies.
• Prior to 1995, this logo was only in use on live-action Disney releases and on advertisements of all Disney videos. A Goofy Movie was the first animated film to have this logo.
• It was seen on most (non-Classics/Masterpiece) Disney video/DVD releases of the era, including most (if not all) Gold Classic Collection DVDs. Some of these DVDs are still in print. Most 1998 and 1999 prints of Masterpiece titles have this logo instead of the Masterpiece Collection logo, or with the Masterpiece logo, as seen on later printings of The Black Cauldron.
• Among the last releases to use this logo were the DVD of Recess: School's Out (the VHS used the 2001 WDHE logo), the first wave of Walt Disney Treasures DVD sets, and the 2002 DVD of Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves.
• This logo can also be found on the 1998 printings of The Brave Little Toaster and its sequel The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars.
• This logo is intact at the beginning and end of Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves on further home video, television and streaming prints (except the Disney+ print, which has a 4:3 variant of the 2011 Walt Disney Pictures logo instead). This logo also appeared on the 2009 DVD release of Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed In at the House of Mouse (itself a reprint of the original 2001 DVD release).
• It was also seen on some Australian VHS releases (mostly of live-action material and on some promos).
• While the "NOW YOU CAN OWN THESE HIT TITLES..." screen appears on reprints of The Rocketeer, rental pressings of the tape have no logo whatsoever.
• VHS releases in Argentina from Gativideo still used this logo until 2006, while the 2001 WDHE logo is on their corresponding DVD counterparts.
• This logo makes an appearance at the end of the 2005 DVD of Jasmine's Enchanted Tales: Journey of a Princess with the show's closing theme (specifically "Arabian Nights") concluding over it. It's most likely this is a reprint of an earlier VHS which left the logo intact.
• The still variant of the silver version was the first version of the logo to be used, and can be seen on 1993 VHS releases of films such as Not Quite Human, Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss, and The Ernest Green Story. It then appeared following the trailers on the 5 Bill Nye the Science Guy tapes released between 1994 and 1995, and also appeared following the trailers on the 1995 US VHS of Gordy.
• The silver variant appears instead of the standard 8th logo during the trailer for Walt Disney Film Classics: The Fantastic Adventures Series, seen on all four tapes in that collection. It also appeared on side 4 of the 1996 Deluxe CAV LaserDisc of Toy Story, at the beginning of the bonus feature featuring the first five Pixar shorts (titled "Early Pixar Computer Animation"), including the unedited version of Knick Knack.
• Instead of appearing before a tape's trailers like the previous logos, the silver variant appeared immediately before the start of the program on the given tape.

6th logo (2001-2008)[]

Visuals: A bright flash appears with the "D" of the text "WALT DiSNEY" (in the familiar signature font) inside of it, both of which are zooming out on a blue (or black) space background. When everything is at a comfortable distance at the top of the screen, the flash forms an abstract shining star below "WALT DiSNEY", and the light spreads out to form a glowing arc. When this is finished, "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" fades in underneath the arc.

Variants:

• Sometimes, the logo would be stretched vertically, with the "WALT DiSNEY" text preserved in its original size, and the stars would be smaller.
• There is a short version of the logo which was used on several trailers and ads from August 2001-October 2007. This was also used on VHS and DVD piracy promos from 2001-2005.
• German VHS tapes have the same message from the German extended version of the Disney Videos logo scrolling upwards into the arc, this time all without rectangles and in gold, and with the FSK label replacing part of the text. After the message is done, Tinker Bell appears and touches the star, letting the rest of the logo continue before she flies offscreen. She then returns to fly into the background.
• Japanese and Spanish commercials for home video releases use a flat model of the logo on a purple or blue background.
• On a Spanish home video and DVD commercial for Beauty and the Beast (La Bella y la Bestia), the "Home Entertainment" text is omitted.
• Commercials for the home video release of Winter Wonderland have a Christmas tree behind the logo.
• On Blu-ray releases, the first variant listed above is used, the frame rate is decreased from 60fps to 23.76fps, and a motion blur effect is added to the "WALT DiSNEY" text.

Technique: CGI.

Audio:

• July 17, 2001-December 18, 2007: A whoosh, then an orchestral/choir note with some bells.
• October 17, 2006-February 5, 2008: A different orchestral theme with a woodwind section. This was first used on the 2006 Blu-ray of Glory Road, and it replaced the 2001 theme entirely with Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey Saves Santa (however, Disney's last VHS tapes, the 2007 Blu-ray of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, the 2007 DVD of Cinderella II: Dreams Come True, all 2006-Early 2010s Thai VCDs, the Singapore VCD of Cars, the Indian VCD of Ratatouille and the 2008 South Korean VHS and Indian VCD of WALL-E all used the 2001 music).

Audio Variants:

• There is a shorter version of the 2001 tune occasionally used on the short variant. A few NTSC DVD releases from December 2001-August 2002 have this audio plastered on the full-length logo.
• The German version has the same tune that was used in the German extended variant of the Disney Videos logo.
• Trailers and TV spots use the opening theme of the trailer.

Availability: It can be found on DVD, UMD, VCD, VHS and Blu-ray Disc releases from the era, some of which are still in print.

• This was first seen on the VHS release of The Book of Pooh: Stories from the Heart (although the regular WDHV logo is on the label and packaging, as well as the DVD release), and was last seen on the 2008 DVD of The Aristocats.
• The blue background version is used for animated releases while the black background version is used for live-action releases.
  • However, this isn't always the case. Live-action releases that used the blue background variant include the 2005 Kermit's 50th Anniversary DVD re-releases of four Muppet movies (including Muppet Treasure Island), the Region 2/4 DVD release of Bedknobs and Broomsticks, and the 2006 Disney Movie Club VHS release of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, as well as Bear in the Big Blue House VHS and DVD releases from 2004 and 2005. The animated products that used the black background variant were a House of Mouse single episode DVD, a trailer for the Aladdin: Platinum Edition VHS and DVD, a trailer for Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street, as well as the 2006 Disney Movie Club VHS releases of Brother Bear 2 and The Wild.
• This was seen on 2002 French VHS releases of The Great Mouse Detective (Basil, détective privé) and Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Atlantide, l'empire perdu).
• As for VHS, this logo appeared late in the format's life and can be seen on the first Platinum Editions, as well as on Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, and Baby Einstein videos released between 2002-2005; among others.
  • The last VHS releases to use this logo were the 2007 VHS releases of Cars, the Platinum Edition of The Little Mermaid, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Invincible, and the 2006/2007 demo VHS of Cinderella III: A Twist in Time, all of which were exclusively for the Disney Movie Club and thus are very hard to find.
• This logo does not appear anywhere on most Pixar releases; instead, the box art uses the print Buena Vista Home Entertainment logo, while the discs/tapes themselves cut straight to the opening previews or, in the case of the 2003 DVDs of Finding Nemo (disc 1) and A Bug's Life, the DVD menu. Ratatouille and The Pixar Short Films Collection: Vol. 1 also have this on their respective covers, but the former has the next logo while the latter has no Disney logo at all. However, the VHS releases of The Incredibles and Cars do have this, as well as the latter's original Blu-ray prints from 2007 and the 2003 UK DVD of A Bug's Life. It was also seen on the 2008 South Korean VHS of WALL-E along with the KD Media logo, despite the fact the South Korean DVD uses the next logo and no KD Media logo. The 2003 Australian 2-Disc Special Edition DVD of A Bug's Life has this logo as well.
• It also appears on the 2012 Special Edition DVD print of The Aristocats, itself a reprint of the 2008 release, and the 2013 DVD releases of the TV shows Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, TaleSpin, DuckTales, Darkwing Duck, and Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears, which are all reprints from the original 2005-2007 releases.
• This also appears on 2003-2006 releases of Studio Ghibli titles in the US which include My Neighbors the Yamadas and Porco Rosso, among others (the logo is removed on the 2010 US reprints of Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service, alongside the US Disney Blu-ray versions of all Ghibli movies they released, all of which use the next logo).
  • It appeared on some Chinese Studio Ghibli VCD releases from the time, such as Porco Rosso and Castle in the Sky, appearing after the China Audio & Video Publishing House logo and Disney warning screen. Some Ghibli films would have BVHE logos, or no Disney logos at all.
• The 2002 Region 4 DVD releases of The Aristocats and Oliver & Company also do not have this logo, despite it being on the cover; they just use the 1995 Disney Videos logo (but their VHS counterparts have this logo). This logo also makes an appearance on the 2015 DVD release of DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (itself a reprint of the original 2006 Disney Movie Club exclusive DVD release).
• It also appeared on the 2015 Region 4 DVD reprints of The Rescuers Down Under, Chicken Little, Meet the Robinsons, The Emperor's New Groove, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Lilo & Stitch, Home on the Range, Brother Bear, Treasure Planet, Robin Hood, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Rescuers, The Sword in the Stone, Hercules, and The Great Mouse Detective (presumably reprints of their original releases dating from 2001-07; this is due to an exclusive promotion at Big W, who re-released most Walt Disney films on DVD with limited edition packaging), but cuts to the previews on Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, and Cars, the menu on A Bug's Life, and the next logo is on Ratatouille.
• Despite its domestic retirement in 2008, VCDs released in Asian region continued to use this logo until late-2011. In case of Indonesian VCDs, this logo was used in tandem with the Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment logo from 2009 to 2011.
• This and the 2001 Disney DVD logo also appear on the 2013 UK DVD release of Make Mine Music, possibly because the disc master was most likely prepared for a 2006 release, but was not released until 2013 for unknown reasons.
• This logo was also spotted on the Indian VCD releases of Ratatouille and WALL-E despite the WDSHE logo used on DVD and Blu-ray releases.
• On the 2001 Platinum Edition DVD of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, this logo does not show up; it instead goes straight from the Warning Screens to the DVD menu.
• It occasionally makes appearances on other BVHE releases:
  • This appeared at the start of the Mexican VHS release of Daredevil VS. Spider-Man instead of the Buena Vista Home Entertainment logo.
  • This appeared on the French UMD for PSP release of The Sixth Sense (Sixième Sens, a Hollywood Pictures film!), and also on a Thai VCD release of Touchstone Pictures' Deja Vu (the Buena Vista Home Entertainment logo was however seen before the previews).
• The RNIB audio described VHSes of Finding Nemo and The Incredibles doesn’t have this logo, as it goes straight to the film after the warning screen.

Legacy: Much like the 1st and 5th WDHV logos, this is a popular logo among collectors.

7th logo (2007-2009)[]

Visuals: The logo starts out with clips from Disney movies and TV shows. It differs depending on the country or era the DVD was released in, but the first 3 always remain the same: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Peter Pan, and The Princess Diaries. The camera then zooms out, revealing a wall of hundreds of clips from various Disney films. More and more clips fly out, replacing some others. One by one, the words "MOVIES.", "MAGIC.", and "MORE." zoom and fade out. Then, all the clips come together to form the 2006 Disney castle. The ring gets drawn around the castle as usual, then "DiSNEY", in the famous script, fades in below. Once the logo fades out, a screen that shows the text "AVAILABLE ON DVD (or DiSNEY DVD) and DiSNEY Blu-Ray Disc (or DiSNEY Blu-Ray HI-DEF)" (with the DVD (or Disney DVD) and Disney Blu-Ray Disc (or Disney Blu-Ray) logos being shown) and all of the films featured shown below the text.

Trivia: While this is considered as a promo instead of a usual logo, the appearance and positioning (albeit different from this and the next logo below) of the "DiSNEY" text would be used to replace the "WALT DiSNEY PICTURES" text on current films starting in 2011 with The Muppets, only it would appear out of the pixie dust coming out of the castle gate, instead of simply fading in.

Variants:

• The clips may differ depending on the country or era the DVD or Blu-ray was released in.
• On most releases with the 2007 variant of this logo, a black screen briefly advertising many of the films featured in the logo appears after it ends.
• There is a still closing variant seen at the end of Snow Buddies, Space Buddies, Santa Buddies and Spooky Buddies where the logo reads "WALT DiSNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT".

Technique: CGI effects.

Audio: The overture from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (also used as the theme of the 1991 Morgan Creek logo, albeit a short version), composed by Michael Kamen. On the Pirates of the Caribbean clip, Jack Sparrow (played by Johnny Depp) says "We have our heading.", and on the Peter Pan clip, the titular character (voiced by Bobby Driscoll) says "Here we GOOOOO!" After the Peter Pan clip, Tony Rodgers says "From the magic within our hearts... to the adventure beyond the horizon... there is only one Disney." After Rodgers finishes speaking, the fanfare rises to a beautiful, triumphant state and ends with a majestic climax with an added cymbal sound.

Audio Variant: Foreign language versions of this logo exist. In them, the sound of cymbals have been completely removed and the Pirates of the Caribbean clip would either be dubbed or subbed (like in the Dutch variant).

Availability: This is considered to be more of a promo than a regular logo.

• First appeared on the DVD and Blu-ray releases of Ratatouille and appeared on a majority of releases from the late 2000s afterward until the 10th Anniversary Edition release of The Tigger Movie. Some of the releases are still in print.
• A few DVD and Blu-ray releases after Ratatouille like Cinderella II: Dreams Come True continued to use the 2001 Walt Disney Home Entertainment logo until February 5, 2008.
• It also appears on a small number of non-Disney releases from Buena Vista, like the 2009 British/Irish DVD of The Secret of Kells.
• This logo does not appear on the 2019 reissues of Ratatouille and WALL-E; they just go straight to the opening previews, despite being reprints of their original DVD and Blu-ray releases.