Video Arts
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| Subsidiary of Tinopolis | |
| Industry | Video Production and eLearning |
| Genre | Comedy, Learning, Soft Skills, Training |
| Founded | 1972 |
| Founder | John Cleese and Sir Antony Jay |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
| Parent | Tinopolis |
| Website | http://www.videoarts.com/ |
Video Arts is a UK-based video production company which produces and sells soft-skills training programmes, e-learning courses and learning platforms. Video Arts also distributes third party titles. It was founded in 1972 by John Cleese, Sir Antony Jay and a group of other television professionals.
Cleese sold the company in the 1990s,[1] and it was later bought by Tinopolis in 2007.[2] Cleese continued to feature in Video Arts' training videos.
Video Arts uses humour in its videos in order to make learning points more memorable. Its slogan is a quote from John Cleese: “People learn nothing when they’re asleep, and very little when they’re bored.”
Video Arts' productions include;
- Meetings, Bloody Meetings (John Cleese, Will Smith)
- Can You Spare a Moment (John Cleese, Ricky Gervais)
- The Balance Sheet Barrier (John Cleese, Dawn French)
- Jamie’s School Dinners: Managing Change (Jamie Oliver)
- Pass It On (Rob Brydon, Will Smith)
- The Ultimate Stress Show (Olivia Colman)
- Performance Review: Every Appraisee’s Dream (Hugh Laurie)
- The Art of Selling (Sheridan Smith)
- Behavioural Interviewing (James Nesbitt, Rebecca Front, Kris Marshall)
- Assert Yourself (Kris Marshall, Mark Heap)
- Performance Review: Code Red (Sharon Horgan, Jim Howick, David Schaal),
- Successful Selling (Kevin Bishop, James Lance, Simon Greenall)
- Sell It To Me (Robert Lindsay)
- 30 Ways to Make More Time (James Nesbitt)
- Presentation is Everything (Mathew Horne)
As well as corporate training videos, the company produced the comedy series Fairly Secret Army for Channel 4.
References
- Patrick Russell: Shooting the message #20: Video Arts. The inside scoop on communications film legend Video Arts, founded by Anthony Jay and John Cleese 40 years ago at British Film Institute website, 20 July 2015
- ↑ Video Arts sells in £25m deal, The Independent, Friday 05 January 1996.
- ↑ Tinopolis makes £2.4m acquisition The Guardian, Friday 4 May 2007