Jiminy Cricket

Now while the film was the first one to introduce the 1992 WDC logo, the DVS follows the veins of the first version with the 1989 logo. DVS meaning Descriptive Video Services, which were tapes made for the blind and the deaf to describe the events happening right on screen. For this one, not only is the 1989 WDC logo’s on here, but so is cut short version of the 1986 WDHV logo too, making this one of the rare instances we see both logos back to back together in the same opening. As such, that’s what makes this opening a rarity and special one at that too to say the least

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The third version wasn’t that different from the second version. It still opened the same as that one, but the closing was slightly different. They took out the silent BV logo, but left everything else intact. I guess that’s one way to fix the editing mistake from the other one, but not exactly how I would go about things. I probably would’ve left the silent one in and take out the other one as a better way to segue way into the previews. It just doesn’t feel right the way they do it here. But, beggars can’t be choosers: https://youtu.be/-r9V3MapWCY?feature=...

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The closing on the other hand’s quite unusual. Well #1, this is actually the first time since “Dumbo” back in 1985 that a title has closing contents after the film, which was a whopping 6 1/2 years ago. Crazy realization right there. Also, the most important facts. The Buena Vista logo actually plays twice in this case. First in silent mode like the first version with no previews, then it reappears again to segue way into the previews. This was definitely an editing mistake because they meant to have it only once, and not as a segue way into the previews. Also, you noticed “videocassette” is misspelled as two words instead of one. Someone definitely goofed up on this version. The previews were also just copy and paste from their previous theatrical trailers, but with any mention of them in theaters being removed all together making them look like VHS trailers. Not to mention the logos before the trailers were just the 1986 WDHV logo, but with the announcements of “Coming to Home Video”, “Coming on Videocassette This Summer”, and “Coming This Fall to Home Video” covering up the entire bottom half of the logo. Looking like they were put together at the eleventh hour. So, why is it that this closing is like this? Well, although it’s never been confirmed, some believe that there was never intended to be a closing to this film. Usually, if there would be a closing, you would’ve seen the “Special Previews After Our Feature” logo in the opening making viewers aware of what was coming up in the end. But, that logo isn’t on here, and yet a closing still appears on this title. The assumption’s that they changed their minds and put one together at the last minute. Hence, that would explain the appearance of the BV logo twice, the misspelling on one of the words, the logos plastered together, and the trailers that already existed being reworked slightly into VHS trailers. A quick way to get it done, but also rushed as well. Also worth noting’s the “Coming to Home Video”/“Coming to Videocassette This Summer” has an alternate music cue for the 1986 WDHV logo itself. This has led people to believe if these music cues were part of a soundtrack before the logo came to fruition or not because this is the only time we hear this version of the logo’s music played. We may never know the answer, but whether we’re talking about this music cue or whether the closing’s rushed or not, you can be the judge and see for yourself

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Not long after, another version with previews was made. It had one trailer at the beginning of the film and two at the end. This opening’s also historic because this featured another first for titles and other tapes going forward. This would be the first time that the lilac Feature Presentation logo was introduced. Now some of the films last year had a feature presentation logo, but it was a rather different looking one than the one we all know best. That one was with gold lettering on a gray background with fly-in effects. This one with the scrolling text and lilac blue background everyone knows from the abundance of films we all had long ago. This was where it all got started and would be what all films in the series would have going forward. Also worth noting’s the first appearance on the next logo of the series. This is the 1992 WDC logo, which first appeared here. Now, how did this logo come to be? Well, no answer’s given, but a friend of mine has a theory that the transfer of the 1989 WDC logo was starting to ware down and show its color. As you can see with this logo, it looks like it was tinted blue. You already know from the no previews variant, the 1989 logo was on that version. Perhaps the thought might’ve been to use the logo again here, but the color faded resulting in the first appearance of this version of the logo. It’s rather bizarre that this is the third time we’ve seen this sort of thing happen. Where the former logo was intended to be used at first before eventually getting replaced by the next logo in the series instead. Definitely a fascinating pattern to day the least. The no previews tape may be historic too, but so is this version for these reasons

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Of course, that wasn’t the only new thing introduced. But first, what you may not know is that they actually made three different versions of this title. For those who have had this tape growing, you may usually remember this one with previews on it. But believe it or not, it didn’t start that way in the beginning. There were no previews whatsoever on the first version of this title. However, no matter what version you go by, this was still historic for introducing something new on here. That would be a new pair of FBI screens. These would be the green FBI screens that we certainly have seen a good number of times before. They were already introduced back in January 1992 with the Studio Film Collection series, but this was the first of this series to have them. I also had mentioned before that previous titles from before which were “Robin Hood”, “‘Alice in Wonderland”, “The Jungle Book”, and “The Rescuers Down Under”. All of which were reissued promoting this title as testing grounds for these new screens. Also worth noting’s that the 1989 WDC logo’s right in here too. Although the previous title was the last official appearance of the logo, it still was shown for the last time in this one. There’s a reason for that, but I’ll save that for when we get to the next version in a bit. With this version, there’s firsts and lasts on here, which is why else this title stands out too

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In response to the question, this followed up a reissue that occurred on July 12th, 1991, which was coincidentally the same day “Robin Hood” had its second VHS release. This is what I like to call a bridging point between my year birth 1991 and the next one after that 1992. Throughout the years since 1944, many various classic films were reissued to theaters for some odd number of years. Well, of all the classic films reissued in my year of birth, I had this one. Actually, this was the only one I had, hence why it’s another film I’m pretty close to. Anyway, naturally after this reissue occurred, it was due for VHS. The plans for this actually go as far back as fall 1991. It was in competition with the previous two titles before this one, which were “The Rescuers Down Under” and “Fantasia”. In the end, they all ended up coming out right back to back with each other. They had “The Rescuers Down Under” in September 1991 and “Fantasia” in November 1991. As such, with no more room available in that year, it was pushed forward to next year instead. Of course, this worked out well with them because knowing how successful the previous two spring promotions were with “The Little Mermaid” in May 1990 and “The Jungle Book” in May 1991, they knew third time would be the charm with this one in April 1992. Well, the record was already set by the previous title already, so it never did beat that one out. However, it did come close it though raking in 10 million units. Still a good number right there and showing how successful spring promotions still were. Maybe if Roy had still refused to release “Fantasia”, we might’ve had this one then and it could’ve been the big one instead. Then again, it could’ve gone to something else, so who knows. We can only speculate. Even so, sometimes there’s a thing known as right place right time. That’s the best way to describe this title in the series. What’s also noticeable about this title’s that this was the first time silk screen labels became permanent. Ya, they were around in 1990 and 1991, but they were still experimenting with them in those years. Also, while vertical white labels still survived into 1992, they were only used on the Studio Film Collection series from a couple months ago. With this title, silk screen labels was the only tape label around, so it became permanent starting here.

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Well, the bad news is the best damn year of all time’s over. I’m going to miss it too, but alas, we have to move on. However, the next film we’re looking at still does have a connection to my year of birth 1991 because that’s how it came to VHS the next year later. We’re now at 1992, which also ended up being a big year too because this was the year that had the most titles out in one year. Some films would either have one a year, or two for some years, and three at most for some years. 1992 ended up having as many as four films out in the same year, hence why that ended up being a big year. The first one of this group was out on April 10th, 1992 with the 15th title of the series, and that film was “101 Dalmatians”.

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One last thing worth noting about this film was that a making of program was made to go along with this tape too. This came along with a boxset of the film that out around the same time as the film itself. This was its opening to this tape. This is noteworthy because unlike the film itself that had the 1989 WDC logo, this one opens with the 1988 logo. That’s one odd thing that makes this tape stand out from the film itself. This title had only a 50 day limitation on VHS, which was already part of the plan from the start as part of the special release treatment. As a result, this is the title in the series that's been the shortest time on VHS out of any other title in the series. It's time may have been short on VHS, but it definitely made an impression with the fact it became the new biggest selling title on VHS. A title it held for a year. Not to mention some things that haven't been since the 80's that made brief comebacks, as well as being the last one with a vertical label, the orange-red FBI screens, and the 1989 WDC logo. I may have said special release for this film many times before, but it couldn't have been more of an appropriate word to describe this release of the film. After all, this was the film released near by time of birth, so that's why this release's so special and why it means a lot to me

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Speaking of the Classics logo that's a good segway into the next matter of this film. You see, the WDC label doesn't appear anywhere on this tape. Not on the cover or the tape label. Why is that? Well, no answer has officially been given. Some speculate that the film never had plans to be in the series and was instead just meant to be its own special standalone release, hence the special treatment it got compared to the other titles in the series before this one. But, if that's the case, then why does the WDC logo appear on here anyway? Well, no one knows officially what the case was with this film, but it's possible that could've been the case. But, the rule of thumb with this film is as long as the WDC logo's on this film, then it still counts as a title of the series regardless if it says so on cover and tape label or not. Hence, that's why we're here discussing the film as we speak. With how much I've gone over on this film being a special release, the opening follows suit to this too. This is another tape that doesn't open with any previews whatsoever, but that was done intentionally with this film as a benefactor. Simialar to what they did last year with "The Little Mermaid". This is another case where they're trying to make this release of the film special too. However, there's a historic facts about this release too. This would be the final time that both the orange-red FBI screens and the 1989 WDC logo appeared on here. Well actually, in the case of the WDC logo, it would appear a few more times for some titles next year and some laserdiscs after that, but this was still the swan song of that logo. It was also the swan song of the orange-red FBI screens too because they never appeared again after this title again. Similar to that one version of "The Rescuers Down Under" as the previos title, the FBI screens were on here for only 10 seconds instead of the usual 20. Talk about an unusal note to go out for these screens. However, they do appear the normal time length on the laserdisc, so you can see them in normal form over there. So there's a lot of lasts on this tape, and as the film released near my time of birth, that's why else it means a lot to me as well. The swan song of many things with this title

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Just like all 1991 tapes, there was a vertical label and a horizontal silk screen label. However, the vertical label wasn’t the traditional vertical white label. Instead, it was a vertical gold label. I’m guessing the gold was there as another way to make this release as a special release. As for the vertical label itself, well this would be the last time a vertical label of any sort would be used. It’s true, the previous title was the last one to have the traditional vertical white label, but this would be the final title to have a vertical label of any sort. Now, it wouldn’t be the last time we saw vertical labels itself. The Studio Film Collection series from 1992 still had it and a few others released three weeks after this, but of all the titles in the series, this was the swan song of vertical labels. Next year silk screen labels would become permanent in this case. Also, there’s no WDC label on here. Well, the previous title from before would be the last time that the diamond would be on the tape label anywhere. It wouldn’t pop again until the finale of the series until way later in 1994. As for here, it would be the WDHV label on here only starting here and for all the 1992 and 1993 titles. So, this was the start of that. That’s what else makes the title near my time of birth as another special one for a reason

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