Walt Disney Home Entertainment (previously known as Walt Disney Home Video) is a home video company founded
in 1980 and is currently a division of The Walt Disney Company. Walt Disney Home Entertainment releases are distributed by Buena Vista Home Video.
History
Disney's video division was established by Jim Jimirro in 1980; Jimmiro also served as its first president. [1]. It released its first titles in October 1980 on Beta and VHS; they included The Apple Dumpling Gang, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Mary Poppins, The Black Hole, The Love Bug, Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, Davy Crockett and the River Pirates, Escape to Witch Mountain. They retailed for $99.99.
In 1981, more titles followed- The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, The North Avenue Irregulars, A Dream Called Walt Disney World, The Watcher in the Woods and so forth.
Trivia
- After the Discovision releases, Disney experimented with Fotomat in 1979.
- Disney's first cartoon compilations (pre-Walt Disney Cartoon Classics in 1983) appeared in 1981, these included Goofy Over Sports, On Vacation with Mickey Mouse and Friends, A Tale of Two Critters, The Adventures of Chip N' Dale, and a few others.
Official canon (Walt Disney Animated Classics)
The following is a list of the forty-eight feature films part of the Walt Disney Feature Animation (WDFA) canon, also known as the Walt Disney Animated Classics. The canon includes animated features that were or are being
produced entirely by WDFA. Not included are animation/live-action combination films, spin-offs from Disney television shows, the direct-to-video films produced by the DisneyToons studio in Australia (some of which received theatrical releases), or the Pixar films (which Disney "presents" but does not produce). WDFA released its final traditionally animated film, Home on the Range, on April 2, 2004 and released their first entirely computer animated feature, Chicken Little, on November 4, 2005. From Chicken Little onwards, all future films of this list will be computer animated.
# |
Film |
Date of original release |
Material based on |
1 |
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
February 8, 1938 (premiere December 21, 1937) |
Snow White by the Brothers Grimm |
2 |
Pinocchio |
February 7, 1940 |
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi |
3 |
Fantasia 1, 2 |
November 13, 1940 (roadshow) January 1942 (general) |
The Sorcerer's Apprentice segment based on ballad of the same name by Goethe |
4 |
Dumbo 3 |
October 23, 1941 |
Helen Aberson and Harold Perl's manuscript |
5 |
Bambi 3 |
August 13, 1942 |
Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten |
6 |
Saludos Amigos 1, 2, 3 |
August 24, 1942 (Brazil) February 6, 1943 (USA) |
none |
7 |
The Three Caballeros 1, 2 |
February 3, 1945 (premiere December 21, 1944) |
none |
8 |
Make Mine Music 1 |
August 15, 1946 (premiere April 20, 1946) |
various |
9 |
Fun and Fancy Free 1, 2 |
September 27, 1947 |
Bongo segment based on Little Bear Bongo by Sinclair Lewis; Mickey and the Beanstalk segment based on Jack and the Beanstalk |
10 |
Melody Time 1 |
May 27, 1948 |
various |
11 |
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad 1, 3 |
October 5, 1949 |
The Wind in the Willows segment based on novel of the same name by Kenneth Grahame; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow segment based on story of the same name by Washington Irving |
12 |
Cinderella |
February 15, 1950 |
Cinderella by Charles Perrault |
13 |
Alice in Wonderland |
July 28, 1951 |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll |
14 |
Peter Pan |
February 5, 1953 |
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie |
15 |
Lady and the Tramp 4 |
June 22, 1955 (premiere June 16, 1955) |
Happy Dan, The Whistling Dog by Ward Greene |
16 |
Sleeping Beauty 5 |
January 29, 1959 |
Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault |
17 |
One Hundred and One Dalmatians |
January 25, 1961 |
The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith |
18 |
The Sword in the Stone |
December 25, 1963 |
The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White |
19 |
The Jungle Book |
October 18, 1967 |
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |
20 |
The Aristocats |
December 24, 1970 |
none |
21 |
Robin Hood |
November 8, 1973 |
traditional stories of Robin Hood |
22 |
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh 1, 2 |
March 11, 1977 |
Winnie the Pooh books by A. A. Milne |
23 |
The Rescuers |
June 22, 1977 |
The Rescuers and Miss Bianca by Margery Sharp |
24 |
The Fox and the Hound |
July 10, 1981 |
The Fox and the Hound by Daniel Mannix |
25 |
The Black Cauldron 5 |
July 24, 1985 |
the first two volumes of The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander |
26 |
The Great Mouse Detective |
July 2, 1986 |
Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus |
27 |
Oliver & Company |
November 18, 1988 |
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
28 |
The Little Mermaid |
November 15, 1989 |
The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen |
29 |
The Rescuers Down Under |
November 16, 1990 |
The Rescuers and Miss Bianca by Margery Sharp |
30 |
Beauty and the Beast |
November 15, 1991 (limited) November 23, 1991 (general) |
Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont |
31 |
Aladdin |
November 11, 1992 |
Aladdin from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights |
32 |
The Lion King |
June 15, 1994 (limited) June 24, 1994 (general) |
partially inspired by Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Joseph the Dreamer from Genesis, Exodus and the 1942 Walt Disney Classic Bambi |
33 |
Pocahontas |
June 23, 1995 |
the encounter between the colonists of Jamestown, Virginia and the native Powhatan tribe |
34 |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
June 21, 1996 |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo |
35 |
Hercules |
June 27, 1997 |
the Greek legend of Hercules and the Superman comics |
36 |
Mulan |
June 6, 1998 |
the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan |
37 |
Tarzan |
June 18, 1999 |
Tarzan of the Apes series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
38 |
Fantasia 2000 1,2 |
December 31, 1999 (IMAX) June 15, 2000 (general) |
Piano Concerto No. 2: Allegro segment based on The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen; The Sorcerer's Apprentice segment based on ballad of the same name by Goethe; Pomp and Circumstance segment based on Noah's Ark from Genesis |
39 |
The Emperor's New Groove |
December 15, 2000 |
none |
40 |
Atlantis: The Lost Empire |
June 15, 2001 |
the myth of Atlantis |
41 |
Lilo & Stitch |
June 16, 2002 |
none |
42 |
Treasure Planet |
November 27, 2002 |
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |
43 |
Brother Bear |
November 1, 2003 |
none |
44 |
Home on the Range |
April 2, 2004 |
none |
45 |
Chicken Little 6 |
November 4, 2005 |
The Sky Is Falling fable |
46 |
Meet the Robinsons |
March 30, 2007 7 |
A Day with Wilbur Robinson by William Joyce |
47 |
American Dog |
July 2008 7 |
none |
48 |
Rapunzel Unbraided |
June 19, 2009 7 |
Rapunzel by the Brothers Grimm
Live-action films which feature Disney animation
# |
Film |
Date of original release |
1 |
The Reluctant Dragon 1, 2 |
June 20, 1941 |
2 |
Victory Through Air Power 2 |
July 17, 1943 |
3 |
Song of the South |
November 12, 1946 |
4 |
So Dear to My Heart |
January 19, 1949 |
5 |
Mary Poppins |
August 29, 1964 (premiere August 27, 1964) |
6 |
Bedknobs and Broomsticks |
December 13, 1971 (USA) (premiere October 7, 1971, UK) |
7 |
Pete's Dragon |
November 3, 1977 |
8 |
Tron 3 |
July 9, 1982 |
9 |
Who Framed Roger Rabbit 4 |
June 22, 1988 (wide release) (premiere June 21, 1988)
|
10 |
Enchanted |
November 2, 2007 5
Theatrical animated films created by DisneyToon Studios
To date, all theatrical animated films created by DisneyToon Studios are traditionally (2-D) animated.
# |
Film |
Date of original release |
1 |
DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp |
August 3, 1990 |
2 |
A Goofy Movie |
April 7, 1995 |
3 |
Doug's 1st Movie |
March 26, 1999 |
4 |
The Tigger Movie 1 |
February 11, 2000 |
5 |
Recess: School's Out |
February 16, 2001 |
6 |
Return to Never Land |
February 15, 2002 |
7 |
The Jungle Book 2 |
February 14, 2003 |
8 |
Piglet's Big Movie |
March 21, 2003 |
9 |
Teacher's Pet |
January 16, 2004 |
10 |
Pooh's Heffalump Movie |
February 11, 2005
Pixar computer animated films released by Disney
Animated films distributed by Disney only in some countries
- Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1993) (Released by Miramax Films)
- Princess Mononoke (1999) (Studio Ghibli, released by Miramax Films)
- Spirited Away (2002) (Studio Ghibli)
- Pokémon 4Ever (2002) (Released by Miramax Films)
- Pokémon Heroes (2003) (Released by Miramax Films)
- Howl's Moving Castle (2005) (Studio Ghibli)
- Valiant (2005) (Vanguard Animation)
- The Wild (2006) (Disney/C.O.R.E./Complete Pandemonium)
- Cat Tale (2006) (Disney/Imagi Entertainment)
- Tales from Earthsea (2007) (Studio Ghibli released by Disney)
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