Classic VHS promo the played at the end of every Walt Disney Home Entertainment VHS release in the early 80's. Uploaded for pop culture archival purposes. No rights implied or given...
Interestingly enough, in the actual movie, that final line is said more matter of factly, as opposed to here, where he sound slightly surprised. Evidently, it's from an alternate take.
Man, I remember this promo showing up at the end of several old Disney VHS tapes I rented, like Tron and a VHS with a couple of Wonderful World Of Disney episodes featuring Ludwig Von Drake, and it showed up on a tape my sister often rented, Blackbeard's Ghost. Even in the 90s and early 2000s, there were still rental stores that had old VHS tapes where I lived. I miss those...
me too, brings a smile to my face when it starts but leaves me disappointed with the world today when it finishes so i just add it to my favorites to keep the joy it gives me alive.
If you're a VHS collector, those early "white box" Disney tapes are worth considering. Many of the titles released in that line either weren't seen again or if they were, it wasn't until many years later on DVD and in many cases the DVD release wasn't really advertised at all so you'd be forgiven for not knowing about it. That always kind of baffled me. Here Disney has this HUGE catalog of live action films and classic animated shorts/featurettes and they're not doing anything with them. If I were Disney, I would at least be setting aside a couple of hours of Disney Channel airtime a day to show this old stuff.
As far as their animated classics went, they were focusing on theatrical re-releases (which is why The Aristocats were rereleased twice in seven years).
I remember watching this promo when I was a kid. The scenes from "A Watcher In The Woods" (1:46) scared me every time. Not even Winnie The Pooh's precociousness could undo seeing that blindfolded girl for me.
What's scarier now? The blindfolded girl, or Bill Cosby? Because I was pretty shocked to see him in this promo, and especially in a movie about buying a teenage girl's soul.
I was born in 1999, and I love this! I was so stoked when I found this on my "Mickey Mouse/Donald Duck" VHS tape! I knew every word of this commercial even before I watched the tape! Another one older than this is the "Here are selected highlights from other Walt Disney Home Videocassettes" screen, followed by previews. If you look up the rental taps, you'll find that promo.
I remember this at the end of “The North Avenue Irregulars” that I rented often as a kid! I wanted to show it to a co-worker in her mid 20s that loves Disney but hadn’t heard of a lot of the older “live” Disney films from the 60s and 70s. Now she will really think I’m old😁
Heh, regarding the list of titles appearing starting at the 4:12 mark, it's interesting to see which titles are on Disney+ and which aren't... "The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again" - Yes "The Watcher In The Woods" - No "Gus" - Yes "Treasure Island" - Yes "Dumbo" - Yes "The Shaggy Dog" - Yes "Davy Crockett and the River Pirates" - Yes "Condorman" - No "The One And Only Genuine Original Family Band" - No "The Devil & Max Devlin" - No "The Absent-Minded Professor" - Yes "Goofy Over Sports" - No (as it's a short compilation) "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" - Yes "Herbie Rides Again" - Yes "Pete's Dragon" - Yes "A Tale of Two Critters" - Yes "The Black Hole" - Yes "The Sign of Zorro" - Yes "The Love Bug" - Yes "Pollyanna" - Yes "Escape to Witch Mountain" - Yes "Old Yeller" - Yes "Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier" - Yes "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" - Yes "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" - Yes "Mary Poppins" - Yes "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" - Yes "Alice in Wonderland" - Yes "The North Avenue Irregulars" - No "A Dream Called Walt Disney World" - No (souvenir tape from the resort) "The Apple Dumpling Gang" - Yes "A Day at Disneyland" - No (souvenir tape from the resort) "Hot Lead and Cold Feet" - No "A Walt Disney Christmas" - No (as it's a short compilation) "The Legend of Sleepy hollow" - Yes (as part of "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad") "Amy" - Yes "Snowball Express" - Yes So that's 27 of the videos shown here available on Disney+, and 10 titles not on the service (as two of them are just short/cartoon compilations and two of them are souvenir tapes sold at the Disney parks.)
I spent about 38 years trying to figure out the title for The Watcher in the Woods, that's seriously a title that rivals Song of the South for being used in promotional material while effectively buried. I'm a tad upset to hear North Avenue Irregulars isn't on there, also Hot Lead Cold feet, how is that not on there?
With Bill Cosby’s ruined reputation nowadays and the controversy that surrounded “The Devil and Max Devlin” when that film was first released...I very much doubt that “The Devil and Max Devlin” will ever stream on Disney+ in a remastered condition if it hasn’t already been streaming on that service. Disney would probably want to forget that the film even exists, just as they would want to forget about their other 1980s and 1970s box office bombs. Disney probably doesn’t even want to digitally restore Condorman if they think it wouldn’t be profitable.
It’s pretty remarkable that 27 titles out of the original lineup listed in the promo were able to be streamed on Disney+ decades after this promo was created. Those titles were able to successfully go through the preparation process required for online streaming. That would probably mean that the master prints were still in existence and in adequate enough shape for digital restoration and preservation. The other ten titles weren’t as lucky. Maybe the master prints are not in good shape or are otherwise lost, or some of the titles were controversial box office bombs to begin with, or the music rights are too complicated to negotiate, or a Disney+ executive may have thought that the titles were too obscure for the streaming to be profitable.
i remember this previews in a BETA tape my dad bought in San Diego CA. back in 1986, this clips were at the end of Bongo the Bear and Mickey and the beanstalk movie ....
Movies: 1. The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again 2. The Watcher in the Woods 3. Gus 4. Treasure Island 5. Dumbo 6. The Shaggy Dog 7. Davy Crockett and the River Pirates 8. Condorman 9. The One and Only Genuine Original Family Band 10. The Devil and Max Devlin 11. The Absent-Minded Professor 12. Goofy Over Sports 13. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh 14. Herbie Rides Again 15. Pete's Dragon 16. A Tale of Two Critters 17. The Black Hole 18. The Sign of Zorro 19. The Love Bug 20. Pollyanna 21. Escape to Witch Mountain 22. Old Yeller 23. Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier 24. Darby O'Gill and the Little People 25. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 26. Mary Poppins 27. Bedknobs and Broomsticks 28. Alice in Wonderland 29. The North Avenue Irregulars 30. A Dream Called Walt Disney World 31. The Apple Dumpling Gang 32. A Day at Disneyland 33. Hot Lead and Cold Feet 34. A Walt Disney Christmas 35. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 36. Amy 37. Swiss Family Robinson 38. Snowball Express
My favorite movies of the list, in this order: "Escape to Witch Mountain", "Darby O'Gill and the Little People", "Treasure Island", "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", "Swiss Family Robinson", "Old Yeller" (very sad, but I love it), "Pete's Dragon", "Bedknobs and Broomsticks", "Mary Poppins", "The Watcher in the Woods", "The Shaggy Dog" (I only like the original black and white version), "The One and Only Genuine Original Family Band", and "Condorman", I think...
My favorite section on the promo is when the announcer says and music. On the new version of the program the song is found in Bedknobs and Broomsticks. But on the other one it's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious from Mary Poppins. Every time that's on I sing along with it because it makes me happy. The 4 cartoons on the promo are Lonesome ghosts(a 1937 mickey mouse short), thru the mirror( a 1936 mickey mouse short, it's like Alice in wonderland), Up a tree( a 1956 Donald Duck short be careful Donald!), and Boat Builders (a 1938 mickey mouse short Be careful Goofy!). You know the ending reminds me of Frosted flakes commercials where with different people they say with him they're great. That's what Tigger does at the end.
They haven’t disowned nearly every single one of these properties at all. Most of the more family friendly ones were streaming on Disney+ when you made your comment. The only ones that weren’t streaming on Disney+ would have been the ones that were box office bombs when they came out (Condorman) or very controversial at the time of release AND a box office bomb due to the controversy (Devil and Max Devlin).
I remember this or disney home video previews very much like it from rentals in my childhood. I think this confirms Watcher in the Woods was the preview that would freak me out. I still want to watch it someday...
4:29 When I first saw this as a kid, when they say "waiting for you", I thought they were saying "Winnie the Pooh", but mispronouncing it as "Winnie the YOU".
Another Disney movie I love seeing on the Walt Disney and you promo is Pete's Dragon. I use this in honor of Mary Poppins, Pete's Dragon and Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
@@seatspudThat movie was such a box office bomb, that it nearly derailed Cosby’s career. Perhaps it should have permanently derailed his career. Hollywood didn’t get the ominous memo, and Cosby’s career bounced back with the “Cosby Show” sitcom.
This promo would also have had the Rocketeer in it as well if they kept updating the promo until 1999. The promo wouldn’t have Splash, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Sister Act, Nightmare Before Christmas, or My Boyfriend’s Back in it because those films were released under the Touchstone label.
I still do! I have tapes from 1981 to 2004 from Disney, and I love them all. Go to your local thrift store, and get a VCR and some tapes, particularly ones you remember. Then you're set.
As of 7/11/22, I've seen Treasure Island and A Tale of Two Critters all the way through; therefore I have seen all 38 Disney Titles from the Disney Lineup (4:11-4:45) in this Disney Video Promo.
Nothing says "That good old Disney Magic!" like a screaming Oliver Reed (Condorman) or Bill Cosby attempting to purchase the soul of a teenage girl! (Devil and Max Devlin). (Cringe) But seriously, the modern Disney leaves me pretty cold too. I like their more successful experimental phase. Give me the tale of a creepy blindfolded girl and an insectoid alien (Watcher in the Woods) , or people being electrocuted to death and cursed with blindness (Something Wicked this Way Comes) any old day!
I loved that phase! I was a child in that phase and I didn't realize it was going to be just a brief phase. To me, Disney was Winnie the Pooh and Alice in Wonderland mixed with Watcher in the Woods and Something Wicked . . . . They all worked together for me.
To me, the experimental phase (late '70s to the mid '80s or so) was a mixed bag. Some of those films really worked well, and others suffered because the studio just couldn't get out of its own way. On the one hand they wanted to modernize and get with the times and make different kinds of films, but on the other hand they were kind of too chicken to really go all in and give the subject matter the treatment it really merited. And it didn't help that the studio had become such an irrelevant Hollywood backwater by the 1970s that it couldn't really attract the top-tier talent that would have been needed to really make a change of direction like this really work. Better direction and/or scripting would have helped some of these films a lot. I think Something Wicked This Way Comes is among the best films they made during that era, and I wish it wasn't so obscure now.
1:27- Of course there's the hilarious and talented Ken Berry, who is best known for playing bumbling, man child Vinton on Mama's Family on both NBC from 1983 to 1984 and syndication from 1986 to 1990 respectively.
+itiswhatitaint anditaintwhatitis Of course before playing Vint he was also Philip in the "Eunice" TV movie in place of Roddy McDowall which aired not too long before the series' premiere.
