Cinema idents and show format
If you went to the cinema in the UK in the 70s, 80s and 90s (especally at a Rank Odeon) chances are you would have seen a show presented the way it's demonstrated here, from the Welcome day-titles to the Sales trailers right up to the Goodbye filmlets.
They knew how to put on a show in those days!
Now it's all dull and bland with no classy idents, no ice cream girls, no stage lighting and no screen curtains. At least not in the multiplexes.
This collection is missing three important idents from the era that couldn't be sourced in full. - The 1981 lick me, bite me King Cone commercial, the 1985 Lyon's Main Get it! sales trailer and the 1998 Ridley Scott Odeon 24hrs a day ident (substituted here with the very last Rank produced Odeon salsa ident from 2000).
If I ever find these missing three I'll repost and delete the salsa ident, as it doen't really belong here.
Enjoy the nostalgia, and weep for the loss of showmanship at cinemas in the 21st century.
lancaster odeon past & present the final chapter
pictures of lancasters odeon cinema from 1936 to the present day
Russ V Odeon
I climb the local cinema, quite fast.
OVERNIGHT EXPLORATION OF BOURNEMOUTHS ODEON CINEMA
We travelled to Bournemouth to explore an abandoned massive Odeon cinema what at first we thought it was closed in the year 2000 to find out it closed much more recent
We find so much inside it's like they just got up and left saying that we don't think we was alone maybe some homeless people was staying inside we are not to sure but all in all a great overnight exploration....
HISTORY
ABC Cinemas was established in 1927 by solicitor John Maxwell[1] by merging three smaller Scottish cinema circuits. It became a wholly owned cinema subsidiary of British International Pictures when it was merged with the production arm of British National Studios, which had been formed by Maxwell in 1926.[2]
During the 1930s, it grew rapidly by acquisitions and an ambitious building programme under the direction of chief architect W.R.Glen, who had been appointed in about 1929[3] and maintained a distinct house style. Existing cinemas which could not be re-modelled were usually operated as separate circuits. In 1937, the parent company, BIP was renamed Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC). ABC also ran cinemas under the Ritz brand such as the Ritz Cinema, Muswell Hill.
After his death in 1940, his widow Catherine sold a large number of shares to Warner Brothers,[4] who eventually became the largest shareholders and able to exercise control, though ABPC was separately quoted on the London Stock Exchange. By 1945 it operated over 400 cinemas (usually called the Savoy or Regal) and was second only to Rank's Odeonand Gaumont chains. By the close of the 1950s ABC had started rebranding most cinemas as ABC and dropped names like Regal. Uk exhibition was characterised by alignments between distributors and exhibitors. ABC had access to Warner Brothers, MGM and its own ABPC productions, whereas rival Rank had 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Walt Disney, Columbia, Universal, United Artists and its own productions. Rival ABC, Odeon and Gaumont cinemas in a town showed their own releases and barred each other from showing the same film.
Television led to a sharp decline in cinema audiences after 1952 though with the coming of commercial television from 1955 ABPC had expanded into the new medium with the creation of ABC Television Limited, which gained the Independent Television contracts for the North of England and Midlands at the weekend. ABC-TV lost its franchises in 1968, and was merged with Rediffusion to become Thames Television.
As a result of the decline many suburban ABC theatres closed. Most of those remaining began, from the late 1950s to lose their individual names and were simply branded ABC. In 1959 Rank abandoned the separate Odeon and Gaumont release and put the best cinemas from each circuit onto a new Rank release. The remaining cinemas were given a new National release but this was unattractive to distributors and in 1961 Paramount switched to ABC after refusing a National release for the Dean Martin comedy All in a Night's Work. The National release soon ended entirely and there were in future just ABC and Odeon release patterns. In 1967, Seven Arts, the new owners of Warner, decided to dispose of its holdings in ABPC and subsequently EMI launched a successful take-over bid for the company. Associated British Picture Corporation was later to be renamed Thorn-EMI Screen Entertainment Ltd, although the cinema chain retained its name. In 1986, this was later divested by EMI to the Australian businessman Alan Bond who sold the chain a few days later to the Golan & Globus Cannon Cinemas Group for a reported £50 million profit in seven days. EMI retained ABPC's lucrative television interests. Eventually, the advent of largely American owned multiplexes led to the end of barring and the old distributor alignments, which had in any case been rendered largely irrelevant by cinema closures often leaving only one cinema in a town, which had access to all films but usually had to give precedence to its traditional alignment (so an Odeon might have a poor Rank release in its biggest screen and a big ABC release in a small cinema and vice versa).
Odeon Cinemas - Ident History
29.03.2017 - Thank you guys so much for 1,000 views!!! :D
10.05.2017 - 2,000 views
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
Movie Palaces #60 - THE FIRST ODEON CINEMAS - The Start of the Circuit
In this video we visit the first group of ODEON CINEMAS to be opened. They include the ODEON'S at PERRY BARR (Birmingham), WEYMOUTH (Dorset), LANCING, KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES, CANTERBURY, WORCESTER PARK (Surrey), TOLWORTH (Surrey), KEMP TOWN (Brighton), WALLINGTON (Surrey), SOUTH HARROW, KINGSBURY, WEALDSTONE, COLINDALE, SUDBURY, SIDCUP, and NORTH FINCHLEY -SEE ALSO - MOVIE PALACES #62 MORE EARLY ODEONS on the ComptonLodgeStudios Channel.
A PLAYLIST of over 200 Videos is available on ComptonLodgeStudios YouTube Channel.
Ted Trailer 2012 ODEON Cinemas
From Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, comedy 'Ted' follows the trials and tribulations of a grown man with an unusual sidekick; his beloved childhood teddy bear who has come to life and refuses to leave his side.
Written, directed and voiced by MacFarlane and starring Mark Wahlberg (The Fighter) and Mila Kunis (Black Swan), 'Ted' demonstrates the truth behind the old adage 'be careful what you wish for'.
Fomer ODEON Cinema, Cambridge Street, Aylesbury
Six and a half years after my first 2009 visit; me and my friend visit the former cinema and take a better range of photos of the cinema, including the original Art Deco features inside and hang up banner protesting the cinemas demolition.
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For detailed History, decent photos and some words please see above!
Hinckley Cannon/Odeon Cinema Visit
Hinckley Cinema was closed in 1994 .It is now left to rot so they can knock it down and fill it with flats.
Real Odeon Cinema Ghost caught on CCTV
Heavy Iron bar being thrown off a fire escape door at an Odeon cinema in Exeter England, this specific cinema has been open since 1939 and has had many paranormal reports occur.
I no longer work here as of 2017, but we still reply to comments if people are curious on ghostly happenings.
THE DECAYED MOVIE THEATRE ODEON CINEMA
#guavajuice #urbex #movie
Odeon Comedy Stack!
Odeon employee falls ten feet exploding a rubbish bag, and lives to tell the tale - what a hero! Thanks to the man that captured this lil gem
SOLITARY - Official Movie Trailer (2015)
Award-winning British drama about a fractured family, a terrible mistake and a shocking confession. Described as spare, nuanced and painfully real,” SOLITARY is directed by Sasha Krane and follows Nora, a troubled woman struggling to confront her past and reconnect with her estranged family.
Starring Katharine McEwan, Sarina Taylor, Michael Wildman, Anna Skellern and Kevin McGowan. Screenplay by Katharine McEwan. Executive produced by Roger Taylor. Produced by Sarina Taylor and Katharine McEwan.
Now available to buy or stream on Amazon: and iTunes:
#solitarythefilm #britishfilm #independentfilm
Hinckley Cannon/Odeon Cinema Projection Rooms
90's film stuff (king Ralph,Batman and last exit to Brooklyn) scatted around the abandoned projector room.
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Odeon @ Switch Islands
Video uploaded from my phone.
Odeon Sign, 1990's - Film 91874
Static shot of a neon Odeon sign, the name appears to be presented twice, acrostic style though only the horizontal sign is visible in it's entirety.
Florence Foster Jenkins World premiere: Odeon Cinema London UK 4/12/16: Michael Kuhn, producer
Michael Kuhn, producer of 'Florence Foster Jenkins speaks before the premiere of the movie at Odeon Cinema, London on April 12, 2016. He introduces guests Vickie Delgado (niece of Cosme McMoon, her husband Reynolds and Donald Collup, producer of Florence Foster Jenkins: A World Of Her Own. Volume is raised at the appropriate moment.
Film 303 Squadron w kinach w Wielkiej Brytanii i Irlandii
Film 303 Squadron ( w Polsce - Dywizjon 303. Historia prawdziwa ), od 9 listopada tego roku, będzie wyświetlany w ponad 100 kinach w Wielkiej Brytanii. Ta polska megaprodukcja, pod angielskim tytułem 303 Squadron, będzie zawierała wiele nowych dodatkowych scen, których nie było w wersji filmu, pokazywanego w Polsce, od sierpnia tego roku.
#303Squadron #Dywizjon303
Reżyseria - Denis Delić
Produkcja - Jacek Samojłowicz
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#TVPolskiLondyn
303 Squadron od piątku w kinach w Wielkiej Brytanii i Irlandii
w kinach ODEON w Londynie:
GREENWICH
HAYMARKET
HOLLOWAY
LEE VALLEY
KINGSTONE
WIMBLEDON
STREATHAM
UXBRIDGE THE CHIMES
WHITELEY,
oraz innych:
AYLESBURY
BASINGSTOKE
BELFAST
BIRMINGHAM
BIRMINGHAM BROADWAY PLAZA
BLACKPOOL
BOURNEMOUTH
BRACKNELL
BRAEHEAD
BRISTOL
BRIGHTON
CARDIFF
CHATHAM
COLCHESTER
COVENTRY SKYDOME
CREWE
DARLINGTON
DERBY
DUDLEY
DUNDEE (Douglas Field)
DUNFERMLINE
EDINBURGH LOTHIAN RD
EDINBURGH WEST (Wester Hailes)
EXETER
GLASGOW QUAY
GUILDFORD
HATFIELD
HEREFORD
HUDDERSFIELD
KETTERING
LEEDS-BRADFORD
LEICESTER
LINCOLN
LIVERPOOL ONE
LIVERPOOL SWITCH ISLAND
LLANELLI
LOUGHBOROUGH
MAIDENHEAD
MAIDSTONE
MANCHESTER GREAT NORTHERN
MANSFIELD
METROCENTRE
MILTON KEYNES STADIUM
NEWARK
NEWBRIDGE
NORWICH
NUNEATON
OLDHAM
OXFORD
PRESTON
ROCHDALE
SOUTHAMPTON
STILLORGAN
STOKE-ON-TRENT
SWANSEA
TAMWORTH
TAUNTON
TELFORD
TRAFFORD CENTRE
TROWBRIDGE
TUNBRIDGE WELLS
WARRINGTON
WEST BROMWICH
WESTON SUPER MARE
WORCESTER
WREXHAM
SAVOY
NOTTINGHAM
WORKSOP
BOSTON
CORBY
#PolesinUK #FilmUK #PremieraUK #TPL
4 July@Guilford
Lots of women were singing songs on the pulic stage in Guildford