Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Italy)

Background
This page deals with logos for various international divisions of Buena Vista Home Entertainment.

(1999-2000s?)
Logo: On a white background, we see the Disney castle in black, with "Buena Vista Home Video" below, separated in two lines. A copyright notice appears on the bottom.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Appears on the 1999 Australian VHS of Monica's Trip to the Moon.

(1990-2005)
Logo: On a lavender gradient background, we see the Disney castle forming (like in the movie logo, but from bottom to top rather than top to bottom). The arc is drawn counter-clockwise over the castle, and the words "Buena Vista Home Video" zoom in from the castle, one by one.

Variants:
 * Starting in 1994, the background is now a sky blue gradient and instead of reading "Buena Vista Home Video", it reads "Buena Vista Home Entertainment" in a slightly different serif font.
 * Alongside the logo's change in 1994, the Buena Vista Home Video name in the warning text is now "BUENA VISTA HOME ENTERTAINMENT", and the final text now says "Distribuzione a cura di: BUENA VISTA HOME ENTERTAINMENT via S. Sandri, 1 - 20121 - Milano tel. 29085.1" ("Distribution by: BUENA VISTA HOME ENTERTAINMENT S. Sandri Street, 1 - 20121 - Milan tel. 29085.1").

Technique: Standard '90s computer effects.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Appears on Italian Buena Vista releases from the time period.

(2001?-Mid or Late 2000s)
Logo: In a blue/dark blue gradient background, we see transparent pieces of the castle flying into their positions from the bottom of the screen. While this happens, a flare circles around the castle, forming a curved line, then moves to the right side of the screen, then coming back at the left side of the screen, while the camera is zooming. The castle turns white, and the flare turns into the text "ブエナビスタホームエンターテインメント" (romanized: Buena bisuta hōmu entāteinmento) ("Buena Vista Home Entertainment" in Japanese), which moves slightly towards the castle before stopping. The background turns white, with the castle and text turning blue and black respectively.

Technique: The castle flying in, the flare, the text forming and the background, text and castle changing color.

Music/Sounds: A descending piano theme, combined with a synthesized ambient note.

Availability: So far, it is only known to appear on two releases from the Ghibli ga Ippai Collection Special line: Jarinko Chie: Movie and Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro. It likely appeared on ''Panda! Go, Panda!'' as well.


 * It is likely that the 2015 reissues of them do not have this logo.

Legacy: A unique and rather peaceful logo for Buena Vista Home Entertainment, blending a good mix of CGI and what may be Scanimation/2D computer graphics.