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Company type | Subsidiary of Tinopolis |
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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".[3]
Video Arts' productions include;
As well as corporate training videos, the company produced the comedy series, Fairly Secret Army, for Channel 4.