Odeon Cinemas - Ident History

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    This is a compilation of all the main Odeon Idents in its history and also in the best quality I can find. I haven't seen anyone try to make a compilation video of this so I decided to make one myself. I know that there are bound to be more idents, particularly for The First Choice idents and possibly Welcome to Odeon Cinemas idents if there are more than two. If there are and you have some of the other idents that are not in this video and there are in good quality, please let me know and give me either a video host or download link and I'll add them in a future compilation video. Also, if you guys know the exact years of when they first used these idents, as well as up until the end of their run, let me know on that part as well, as the information I found out about that part or pretty scarce and scattershot when it comes to that and I like to know exactly when it was first used and ended as I want to get them right in a future comp. Anyway, thank you guys and I hope you enjoy this compilation and history of the Odeon Cinema Idents.
    These Idents all belong to Odeon.
    Time Codes -
    The First Choice Idents - 00:00
    Welcome to Odeon Cinemas Idents - 03:01
    Fanatical About Film (1997 Ident) - 04:05
    Fanatical About Film (Coloured Idents) - 05:07
    Latest Odeon Idents (Welcome/Bubbles/Spaceman) (Without Voiceover) - 06:44
    Latest Odeon Idents (Welcome (includes opening extended ambient intro)/Bubbles/Spaceman) (With Voiceover) - 08:29
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Komentáře • 82

  • @dreamcastfan
    @dreamcastfan Před 5 lety +12

    2:27 is the magic one for me. I saw so many films in the mid to late ‘90s with that ident. Stuff like Under Siege, Jurassic Park, Demolition Man, Cliffhanger, Independence Day, etc, etc. I really need to get a copy of this so I can play it before I watch a film.

  • @sullivans2004
    @sullivans2004 Před 5 lety +7

    ‘And not to be distracted by someone’s phone screen’
    That guy is amazing.

  • @dk2018
    @dk2018 Před 6 lety +13

    The ident at 01:12 still gives me the chills. Those first three notes... Boom!

    • @bens1972
      @bens1972 Před 2 lety +1

      Yes, I agree. I’m sure The Pet Shop Boys used it in West End Girls.

    • @AT-kb1ik
      @AT-kb1ik Před 2 lety +1

      Oh my God, me too!!

  • @hobbybobley
    @hobbybobley Před 4 lety +8

    Thank you very much for posting this... I have on and off been searching for the trip-hop strings intro (06:14) for aaaaages! It brought back many a good memory hearing/seeing it again! ✌🏼

  • @charismasavingthrow
    @charismasavingthrow Před 7 lety +21

    These take me back! The new ones I know off by heart because I work there I literally see them so much haha 😂

  • @WaltK92
    @WaltK92 Před 6 lety +8

    That "52 weeks per year, 7 days per week etc." one still sends chills down my spine!

  • @watkin2814
    @watkin2814 Před 3 lety +5

    5:45 is the one I first remember. I can still remember the flip note of it before actually seeing the ident.
    But 5:07 - 6:44 bring back many memories of going to the old odeon in my town before they moved it. Saw many films there between 2000-08.

  • @shanehumphries2680
    @shanehumphries2680 Před 2 lety +3

    5:48 is the one that takes me back to the good old days of cinema 🍿

  • @joshdaley5476
    @joshdaley5476 Před 4 lety +7

    05:07 Was the one I grew up with! 2003-2005

    • @DoubleO88
      @DoubleO88 Před 3 lety

      No way that ones that old 😮

  • @lukegreen5341
    @lukegreen5341 Před 4 lety +9

    2:27 The Odeon Logo Is Appears At The Beginning Of Disney's Aladdin In 1992 Along With Disney's The Little Mermaid In 1989 And Disney's Beauty And The Beast In 1991 And Of Course Disney's The Lion King In 1994. Thanks Mate. X

  • @edwardgarrity1754
    @edwardgarrity1754 Před rokem +1

    The “Fanatical About Film (Coloured Indents)” gave me such nostalgia 😢

  • @tamhaswoods9056
    @tamhaswoods9056 Před 4 lety +9

    05:07 the first one I really really remember. My favourite is 03:01 - proper early 90s rave vibe

    • @W3KTS
      @W3KTS Před 3 lety +3

      It was. I designed and produced this back in 1994...

    • @tamhaswoods9056
      @tamhaswoods9056 Před 3 lety

      @@W3KTS Nice. Bit of an 808 State fan are we? :D

    • @thefilmaddicts3898
      @thefilmaddicts3898 Před 3 lety

      @@W3KTS The best ident ever produced for the Odeon and possibly for any cinema ever. Stunning. A belated congrats!

  • @PindarMOD
    @PindarMOD Před 3 lety +2

    I haven't been to an Odeon cinema since 2005. The 90s ident was the best.

  • @MattF340
    @MattF340 Před 6 lety +13

    Everytime i hear 1:12 i'm back in the Odeon torch in hand showing people to seats! Cinema should go back to this kind of service and 35mm! Now theres no music, no curtains and your effectively watching a big TV.

    • @JayMcLaughlin
      @JayMcLaughlin Před 6 lety +3

      MattF340 I was thinking he same thing. As soon as I heard that music the memories came flooding back!

    • @MattF340
      @MattF340 Před 4 lety +2

      @Jack Torrance Yes it was better, better atmosphere, better quality of projection (No such thing as a projectionist these days in most cinemas), screens behind curtains didn't get as dirty, if people came in late they were sat promptly rather than now when they stumble around in the dark trying to see their seat number and have to resort to getting their phone flashlight out disturbing everyone else. 35mm vs digital projection is more personal preference but in the cinema environment 35mm presented well beats digital for me every time, there is just so much more clarity and depth to the picture.

    • @r00tan16
      @r00tan16 Před rokem

      im a current cinema host at odeon, the depressing thing is we still have the equipment to provide reel projection, but its easier to use digital so no one bothers anymore. instead its upstairs collecting dust, much like everything else. its sad

  • @derekatkins1773
    @derekatkins1773 Před 3 lety +1

    Odeon The First Choice in film entertainment. Odeon has been around a long time in Britain and has the experience in film and how to present it too on the big screen. I remember it all well too watching films in Odeon Cinemas all over Britain . Today's Odeon has moved on in 2021 and multiplexes replace the preferred cinemas of our past but it's can still out shine its competitors and is still the leading brand in the UK.

  • @johndufton9686
    @johndufton9686 Před 3 lety +6

    It's very sad to see a company the shadow of its former self. The rot set in when Odeon was sold by Rank and the company was then asset stripped by subsequent private equity companies to become the debt ridden morale sapping behemoth it has become today. The change can be seen in logo design where the 1930's red lettering was changed in 2000 to silver.

    • @W3KTS
      @W3KTS Před 3 lety

      The headline in US Variety was "Copier Company Pulls Out Of Movies".

  • @ridbensdale
    @ridbensdale Před 3 lety +3

    2:57 into Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

  • @sugarcane0000
    @sugarcane0000 Před rokem +3

    The coloured indents just embody my whole childhood 😩🥹❤️ Orange Wednesdays, my Daddy-Daughter dates with my dad.. good times

  • @lukegreen5341
    @lukegreen5341 Před 6 lety +2

    Cool ODEON Theatres Logo. Thanks Mate. X

  • @Polysixchick
    @Polysixchick Před rokem +1

    2:27 sounds like the opening bars to Pet Shop Boys "West End Girls"!

  • @OnmiMVS
    @OnmiMVS Před 4 lety +1

    Odeon returns evreytime

  • @aidenatkinson4335
    @aidenatkinson4335 Před 2 měsíci

    Oh, I'm going to miss the big "O" before the films. They're soothing 6:44

  • @matthewbanjomanwalker
    @matthewbanjomanwalker Před 5 lety +1

    this big O that explodes in the background is a 10 minute warning for us cinema host to get the hell our of the scream ASAP after cleaning! however I didn't realise more noises on here as the voiceover is on thereall the time

  • @lukegreen5341
    @lukegreen5341 Před 6 lety +3

    0:03 This Music Is Funky. Thanks Mate. X

    • @W3KTS
      @W3KTS Před 3 lety +1

      Thanks! I created this (and many of the other sequences here) and I had a real battle to get this track. Y'know what Odeon originally wanted? "Whatever You Want" by Status Quo...

  • @spikeymike2191
    @spikeymike2191 Před 2 lety +3

    Most of these are from the days when Odeon was the best cinema brand. Before they shut all the great Cinemas and moved into tin sheds.

  • @showreel2
    @showreel2 Před 25 dny

    I screened our first showing of THE FIRST CHOICE (your first one in montage) around 1988/ 89... a little while later the rank screen advertising identity changed too. We always used the "now it's time for ice cream" intermission outro from the 70s/80s. Odeon Ipswich (Victoria 8 and 9 projectors and Phillips cakestands

  • @ewetubaful
    @ewetubaful Před 2 lety

    I’ve been trying to work out what is in the reflection of the spaceman’s helmet - some sort of alien? Anyone any ideas what is reflected?…

  • @User-3O3
    @User-3O3 Před 2 lety +1

    The voiceover included in the current ident (as of 2022) completely ruins the ambience. Does anyone know if there is a version without the voice?

    • @CJFS00s
      @CJFS00s Před rokem +1

      At 6:48 there’s a clean one! 😊 🍿 👍🏻

  • @slnmediagroupfan2349
    @slnmediagroupfan2349 Před 2 lety +1

    December 24, 2017

  • @slnmediagroupfan2349
    @slnmediagroupfan2349 Před 2 lety +1

    December 27, 2013

  • @TheFrankiemonkey
    @TheFrankiemonkey Před 7 lety +1

    You're missing one from 2011, where the colours burst out and they formed "Odeon Digital 8000 HD". I saw this in 2014 before a showing of The Lego Movie at Odeon Printworks in Manchester.

    • @DW94-01
      @DW94-01  Před 7 lety +1

      Hi. Thanks for letting me know. I'll make sure to add that ident in a future compilation video. If you know where I can find a good quality copy of it online as the one on Odeon's CZcams channel is in a crappy 240p copy, please by all means, let me know by sending in a host site or download link. Thank you for notifying me and I hoped you enjoyed the compilation video regardless :)

    • @theazbonator
      @theazbonator Před 7 lety +1

      boxed.tv/2015/02/odeon-ident/

  • @DanBmthUK
    @DanBmthUK Před 5 lety +1

    I think the Harrogate Odeon was used as the basis for the cgi design used in the Odeon First Choice and 2nd Generation title sequences.

    • @W3KTS
      @W3KTS Před 3 lety +4

      Right and wrong!!! It's NOT a CGI sequence! I designed and produced these when I was Creative Director at National Screen Productions in 1987 and I had a huge model built in glass and perspex. You're right about the Harrogate Odeon: I based the model on drawings of it and the Odeon at Morecambe... and finished it off in the shiny gloss black that the Odeon Middlesbrough used to sport. We lit it appropriately and did a multipass motion control shoot all on 35mm. The first music was library with Bill Mitchell's voice (award-winning..) and the second version had a Pet Shop Boys style theme written by the son of The Shadows' drummer.

    • @DanBmthUK
      @DanBmthUK Před 3 lety

      @@W3KTS well, I certainly never expected to hear from the guy behind it! Great to know how it was made and filmed, it’s certainly imbedded in my memory, and I always think of 2nd Feb titles whenever I visit an odeon today, I guess that’s the indelible power these sequences had.

  • @slnmediagroupfan2349
    @slnmediagroupfan2349 Před 2 lety +1

    February 10, 2013

  • @slnmediagroupfan2349
    @slnmediagroupfan2349 Před 2 lety +1

    February 10, 2009

  • @matthewsoucy9073
    @matthewsoucy9073 Před 4 lety +1

    Who narrated the first idents?

    • @W3KTS
      @W3KTS Před 3 lety +1

      Bill Mitchell.

  • @oshvision
    @oshvision Před 5 lety

    Odeon target ident: iv'ed added the short 'Feature presentation' one to my yt

  • @a877ths
    @a877ths Před 3 lety

    3:01 The best one by far

  • @DarrenJCalvert
    @DarrenJCalvert Před 4 lety

    I wonder if anyone actually managed to book by WAP it was a terrifying experience! All I remember seeing blank boxes on a grey scale screen!

  • @someadandlogochannel
    @someadandlogochannel Před 3 lety +1

    odeon wants us to book by wap 😳😳😳😳

  • @RediffusionMusic
    @RediffusionMusic Před 5 lety +1

    0:48 - is this Redd Pepper on the voice?

    • @StuartVallantine
      @StuartVallantine Před 5 lety +1

      Sounds like Bill Mitchell (alternately known as Bill McAllister). He used to do a lot of voiceover work in the 1980s for adverts and radio. He was also the Reporter in Tyne-Tees Television's adaptation of Supergran.

  • @Keelz7196
    @Keelz7196 Před rokem

    5:45 all the way 🕺🏻!

  • @Ledsni
    @Ledsni Před 2 lety

    where's the meme

  • @jermainewilliams7187
    @jermainewilliams7187 Před 7 lety +1

    Hi my brother's and sister's it's ex Odeon cinema I used to work at the Printworks Odeon in Manchester which was fun but the name Odeon has now become Vue Cinema's Which upsets me a lot because I can't use my Limitless Card their any more crap. 😢😢😢😢😢😢

  • @Evan_Makeba
    @Evan_Makeba Před 7 lety +2

    RIP Odeon.
    Not an fan of the younger ones. Dull af imo.

  • @ArcadeCabNBud
    @ArcadeCabNBud Před 5 lety

    i bet these were ripped from pirated video tapes haha

  • @slnmediagroupfan2349
    @slnmediagroupfan2349 Před 2 lety +1

    December 27, 2017