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.
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! ✌🏼
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.
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
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.
@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.
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
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.
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.
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
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...
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
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.
@@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.
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.
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 UA-cam 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 :)
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.
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. 😢😢😢😢😢😢
These take me back! The new ones I know off by heart because I work there I literally see them so much haha 😂
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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.
Yeah am going to do the same :)
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! ✌🏼
The ident at 01:12 still gives me the chills. Those first three notes... Boom!
Yes, I agree. I’m sure The Pet Shop Boys used it in West End Girls.
Oh my God, me too!!
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.
‘And not to be distracted by someone’s phone screen’
That guy is amazing.
His name is Chris overton
5:48 is the one that takes me back to the good old days of cinema 🍿
05:07 Was the one I grew up with! 2003-2005
No way that ones that old 😮
That "52 weeks per year, 7 days per week etc." one still sends chills down my spine!
Odeon ASMR
05:07 the first one I really really remember. My favourite is 03:01 - proper early 90s rave vibe
It was. I designed and produced this back in 1994...
@@W3KTS Nice. Bit of an 808 State fan are we? :D
@@W3KTS The best ident ever produced for the Odeon and possibly for any cinema ever. Stunning. A belated congrats!
The coloured indents just embody my whole childhood 😩🥹❤️ Orange Wednesdays, my Daddy-Daughter dates with my dad.. good times
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
The “Fanatical About Film (Coloured Indents)” gave me such nostalgia 😢
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.
MattF340 I was thinking he same thing. As soon as I heard that music the memories came flooding back!
@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.
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
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.
The headline in US Variety was "Copier Company Pulls Out Of Movies".
I haven't been to an Odeon cinema since 2005. The 90s ident was the best.
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.
2:27 sounds like the opening bars to Pet Shop Boys "West End Girls"!
2:57 into Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
Odeon returns evreytime
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
Oh, I'm going to miss the big "O" before the films. They're soothing 6:44
Cool ODEON Theatres Logo. Thanks Mate. X
I grew up with the latest odeon idents
0:03 This Music Is Funky. Thanks Mate. X
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...
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
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.
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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.
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.
@@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.
February 10, 2009
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.
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 UA-cam 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 :)
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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?
At 6:48 there’s a clean one! 😊 🍿 👍🏻
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!
haha WAP
3:01 The best one by far
Odeon target ident: iv'ed added the short 'Feature presentation' one to my yt
0:48 - is this Redd Pepper on the voice?
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.
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?…
odeon wants us to book by wap 😳😳😳😳
5:45 all the way 🕺🏻!
RIP Odeon.
Not an fan of the younger ones. Dull af imo.
Fox Makeba i’m pretty sure Odeon didn’t go bankrupt and defunct by now.
Yeah it’s still a thing
Who narrated the first idents?
Bill Mitchell.
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. 😢😢😢😢😢😢
No I saw its from Lee valley
where's the meme
i bet these were ripped from pirated video tapes haha
It’s part of the act
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