
Lady and the Tramp-1980's Generation of the Video

Hello, there. My name is Mary, and I was born in 1980. I will talk a little bit of Lady and the Tramp.
I remember the Disney Black Dismond Videos. For those youngsters born in the late 1990's, you would not remember these Videocassettes. For those of you born in the 1980's, you would remember them.
In 1987, Lady and the Tramp came out on Video for the first time. I was about six, or seven years of age. My family did not have a VCR at that time, so I did not have Lady and the Tramp.
By the time we had a VCR, Lady and the Tramp was out of print, until 1998. 1987's version of Lady and the Tramp was under the Black Diamond Classics Videos, or The Classics. The Black Diamond Classic Video of Lady and the Tramp had a "peel-away" section on the lower right hand corner of the video saying:" The ORIGINAL Animated Classic!" This was on the first release of Lady and the Tramp to video in 1987. 1987 was the first time Lady and the Tramp came to video.
In 1998, Lady and the Tramp came to video again...in the Disney's Masterpiece Collection Videos. On the back cover of the Masterpiece version of Lady and the Tramp in 1998, it said "never before seen on video". What the Masterpiece version was saying, was that Lady and the Tramp was NEVER on video before. And this is NOT true. I remember when Lady and the Tramp came out on video in 1987. 1987's version was the FIRST time that Lady and the Tramp was on video...NOT 1998.
The Masterpiece Collection's version of Lady and the Tramp was NOT the first time on video, despite what it said on the cover. The Black Diamond Version Lady and the Tramp video in 1987, was the FIRST time on video. I remember it hitting the store shelves in 1987, and I asked my mom if we could buy the tape.
I did not get Lady and the Tramp until 1998, when it came to the Masterpiece Collection. What desecration! Rereleasing a fine, perfect...not to mention cute, and romantic...Disney Video out again!! I liked the videos of my generation...the Black Diamond Classics. Of course, I have some Masterpiece Collection Videos, such as Pocahontas, The Aristocats, Oliver and Company, etc.
I looked on ebay for the Black Diamond Version of Lady and the Tramp...and I found a copy. The ORIGINAL Lady and the Tramp video from 1987, my generation's version. I finally have my very own copy of the Black Diamond Lady and the Tramp Video from 1987!!! And, it plays PERFECTLY, and the seller was so helpful, and very prompt with the delivery of the Video.
Well, it took me years to get my own copy of the Black Diamond version of Lady and the Tramp...some 19 years, since 1987...a long time ago. Again, it took me years to find it, but I looked on ebay...and lo, and behold!!! There was the ORIGINAL Black Diamond version of this video with my name on it. It plays perfectly, as if it were just released to video this year...although this version of Lady and the Tramp video was released in 1987.
Also, the seller of the video was polite, and I emailed her, and thanked her for her help, and thanked her. I told her that the tape works perfectly...and it does. I have my very own Black Diamond Version of Lady and the Tramp video from 1987!! :) -Mary
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