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.
Jiminy Cricket
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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