 This was the first Walt Disney Animated Classic released on  videocassette. Its first video release was in 1981 for rental only,  and put on sale in the summer of 1982. And it was repackaged in 1985  and 1989 and then 1994 and 2001, and the new release in 2006. Dumbo  has never went out of print. The longest Disney animated feature on  video to be in print since it came out.