Walt Disney Home Video

The "Sorcerer Mickey" logo animation

**Walt Disney Home Video**, later known as **Disney Videos** and **Walt Disney Home Entertainment**, is a distributation company known the releasing The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh on the home video. It was first founded in 1978.

## History

Walt Disney Home Video 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. The Walt Disney Home Video name was kept until 2001, when it was once again named "**Walt Disney Home Entertainment**". Starting in the late 1990s, the company began producing DVDs, and in 2006, they started to release Blu-ray discs. Since 2007, it is known as "**Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment**".

## Known logos

### "Sorcerer Mickey" logo

The first Walt Disney Home Video to be used when releasing The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh on home video is the "Sorcerer Mickey" logo. It lasted from September 23, 1986 to November 6, 2001 in the US and to 1994 in the UK. It is seen in all of the original volumes of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, in both US and UK, as well as the 4 US-released holiday-themed volumes and the US versions of the Playtime, Learning and Friendship volumes when they were first released.

#### Logo animation

On a black background, we see Mickey Mouse dressed in his Sorcerer’s Apprentice outfit from *Fantasia*, standing on a blue spotlight. The camera slowly begins zooming up to his hand as the stars and crescent moon on his 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. As we zoom out, the words "HOME VIDEO", in the same font as before, zoom out from the bottom of the screen and settle underneath "WALT DiSNEY". The logo "shines".

The music for this logo's animation is a low-key, gradually rising synth theme with a held-out synthesized B-flat tuba note at the beginning, believed to be inspired by "Life Is for Living" by Barclay James Harvest. In its early years, the music was more synthesized.

#### Home video releases that use this logo

##### US

###### Original collection

* Volume 1: The Great Honey Pot Robbery
* Volume 2: The Wishing Bear
* Volume 3: Newfound Friends
* Volume 4: There's No Camp Like Home
* Volume 5: Wind Some, Lose Some
* Volume 6: All's Well That Ends Well
* Volume 7: King of the Beasties
* Volume 8: The Sky's the Limit
* Volume 9: Everything's Coming Up Roses
* Volume 10: Pooh to the Rescue

###### Playtime

* Cowboy Pooh
* Detective Tigger
* Pooh Party
* Fun 'n Games
* Happy Pooh Day

###### Learning

* Making Friends
* Sharing and Caring
* Helping Others
* Growing Up
* Working Together

###### Friendship

* Clever Little Piglet
* Pooh Wishes
* Tigger-ific Tales
* Imagine That, Christopher Robin!
* Three Cheers For Eeyore & Rabbit

###### Holiday-themed volumes

* Winnie the Pooh, and Christmas Too
* Winnie the Pooh: Un-Valentine's Day
* Winnie the Pooh: Frankenpooh
* Winnie the Pooh: Spookable Pooh

##### UK

###### Original collection

* The Great Honey Pot Robbery
* Birds of a Feather
* Hundred Acre Hero
* Up, Up and Away
* Bubbles and Troubles
* The Masked Marauders
* Wild West Winnie
* Pooh Bear's Big Surprise
* The Great River Rescue
* Goodbye, Mr. Pooh

### "Disney Videos" logo

The second Walt Disney Home Video to be used when releasing The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh on home video is the "Disney Videos" logo. It was used from late 1994 to June 14, 2005. This logo is only used in the UK. It is seen in the UK versions of the Playtime, Learning and Friendship volumes as well as 2 UK-released holiday-themed volumes when they were first released.

#### Logo animation

On a purple background, three black balls fall from the top of the screen and bounce off the bottom. Two of the balls form the ears of Mickey Mouse and one ball forms the head. A right-slanted yellow rectangle and a white square also fall from above. The yellow rectangle slants left and settles on the left, while the white square slants right and settles on the right. The balls in the Mickey Mouse logo bounce onto the white square. The text "DiSNEY", in the corporate font and written in red, zooms out and settles on the yellow rectangle. Below, a rectangular green banner with the white word "VIDEOS" unfolds to the right.

The music for this logo's animation is a very short orchestral rendition of "When You Wish Upon a Star" ending with an orchestral hit.

#### Home video releases that use this logo

##### UK

###### Playtime

* Detective Tigger
* Pooh Party
* Fun 'n Games
* Happy Pooh Day/Cowboy Pooh (2-VHS bundle)

###### Growing Up

* Sharing and Caring
* Helping Others
* Making Friends
* Growing Up/Working Together (2-VHS bundle)

###### Friendship

* Clever Little Piglet
* Pooh Wishes
* Tigger-ific Tales
* Imagine That, Christopher Robin!
* Three Cheers For Eeyore & Rabbit

###### Holiday-themed volumes

* Winnie the Pooh, and Christmas Too
* Winnie the Pooh: Spookable Fun (UK equivalent of the 2 US only volumes Winnie the Pooh: Frankenpooh and Winnie the Pooh: Spookable Pooh)

### "Disney In Space" logo

The third Walt Disney Home Video to be used when releasing The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh on home video is the "Disney in Space" logo. It was used from July 17, 2001 to February 5, 2008. It is seen in the Magical World of Winnie the Pooh volumes when they were first released.

#### Logo animation

We see a bright flash with the "D" of the text "WALT DiSNEY" (in the familiar signature font), 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.

The music for this logo's animation is just a whoosh, then an orchestral/choir note with some bells.

#### Home video releases that use this logo

##### Magical World of Winnie the Pooh

* All For One And One For All
* Little Things Mean A Lot (UK only)
* It's Playtime With Pooh
* A Great Day Of Discovery
* Friends Forever
* Love and Friendship
* Share Your World (UK only)
* Growing Up With Pooh (UK only)

## Trivia

* When it was first founded, Walt Disney Home Video used its first logo: The "Neon Mickey" logo.
* Walt Disney Home Video's current logo is the "Disney Castle" logo.
* Walt Disney Home Video has to release any future home video releases of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, although the book that the series is based on entered public dormain in 2021.