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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@dreamcastfan 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@bluesmobilehire4053 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah am going to do the same :)

@showreel2 11 күн бұрын

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

@hobbybobley 4 жыл бұрын

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! ✌🏼

@watkin2814 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@charismasavingthrow 7 жыл бұрын

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

@faizansari5612 7 жыл бұрын

hello

@faizansari5612 7 жыл бұрын

charlotteydwi hi

@DarrenJCalvert 6 жыл бұрын

charlotteydwi hey

@someadandlogochannel 3 жыл бұрын

@@faizansari5612 simp

@someadandlogochannel 3 жыл бұрын

@@DarrenJCalvert simp

@aidenatkinson4335 2 ай бұрын

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

@sullivans2004 5 жыл бұрын

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

@xanderking676 2 жыл бұрын

His name is Chris overton

@dk2018 6 жыл бұрын

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

@bens1972 2 жыл бұрын

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

@AT-kb1ik 2 жыл бұрын

Oh my God, me too!!

@joshdaley5476 4 жыл бұрын

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

@DoubleO88 3 жыл бұрын

No way that ones that old 😮

@shanehumphries2680 2 жыл бұрын

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

@WaltK92 6 жыл бұрын

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

@mjj5276 4 жыл бұрын

Odeon ASMR

@edwardgarrity1754 Жыл бұрын

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

@lukegreen5341 4 жыл бұрын

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

@Polysixchick Жыл бұрын

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

@ridbensdale 3 жыл бұрын

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

@tamhaswoods9056 4 жыл бұрын

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

@W3KTS 3 жыл бұрын

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

@tamhaswoods9056 3 жыл бұрын

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

@thefilmaddicts3898 3 жыл бұрын

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

@PindarMOD 3 жыл бұрын

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

@OnmiMVS 4 жыл бұрын

Odeon returns evreytime

@derekatkins1773 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@lukegreen5341 6 жыл бұрын

Cool ODEON Theatres Logo. Thanks Mate. X

@xanderking676 2 жыл бұрын

I grew up with the latest odeon idents

@johndufton9686 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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

@slnmediagroupfan2349 2 жыл бұрын

December 24, 2017

@slnmediagroupfan2349 2 жыл бұрын

December 27, 2013

@matthewbanjomanwalker 5 жыл бұрын

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

@TheFrankiemonkey 7 жыл бұрын

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 7 жыл бұрын

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 KZfaq 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 7 жыл бұрын

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

@slnmediagroupfan2349 2 жыл бұрын

February 10, 2013

@ewetubaful 2 жыл бұрын

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?…

@lukegreen5341 6 жыл бұрын

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

@W3KTS 3 жыл бұрын

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...

@slnmediagroupfan2349 2 жыл бұрын

February 10, 2009

@MattF340 6 жыл бұрын

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 6 жыл бұрын

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

@MattF340 4 жыл бұрын

@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 Жыл бұрын

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

@DanBmthUK 4 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@User-3O3 2 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

At 6:48 there’s a clean one! 😊 🍿 👍🏻

@oshvision 5 жыл бұрын

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

@sugarcane0000 Жыл бұрын

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

@DarrenJCalvert 4 жыл бұрын

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 3 жыл бұрын

haha WAP

@spikeymike2191 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@a877ths 3 жыл бұрын

3:01 The best one by far

@RediffusionMusic 5 жыл бұрын

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

@StuartVallantine 5 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

5:45 all the way 🕺🏻!

@someadandlogochannel 3 жыл бұрын

odeon wants us to book by wap 😳😳😳😳

@matthewsoucy9073 4 жыл бұрын

Who narrated the first idents?

@W3KTS 3 жыл бұрын

Bill Mitchell.

@Ledsni 2 жыл бұрын

where's the meme

@jermainewilliams7187 7 жыл бұрын

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. 😢😢😢😢😢😢

@dirtydanhd7502 5 жыл бұрын

No I saw its from Lee valley