Video Arts is a British

United Kingdom

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 based video production company which produces training videos for companies. It was founded in 1972 by John Cleese

John Cleese

John Marwood Cleese is an English actor, comedian, writer, and film producer. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report...

, Sir Antony Jay

Antony Jay

Sir Antony Rupert Jay, CVO, is an English writer, broadcaster, director, and actor famous for the co-authorship, with Jonathan Lynn, of the successful British political comedies Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister...

, and a group of other television professionals. The videos feature well known British actors, and humorously explain business concepts. Productions include Meetings, Bloody Meetings

Meetings, Bloody Meetings

Meetings, Bloody Meetings is a 1976 British comedy training film that stars John Cleese as a bumbling middle manager. The film was written by John Cleese and Antony Jay, and was produced by Cleese's production company Video Arts....

and More Bloody Meetings

More Bloody Meetings

More Bloody Meetings is a 1984 British comedy training film that stars John Cleese as a bumbling middle manager. The film was directed by Charles Crichton and written by Antony Jay. It was produced by Cleese's production company Video Arts....

, and have featured Cleese, Dawn French, Prunella Scales

Prunella Scales

Prunella Scales CBE is an English actress, known for her role as Basil Fawlty's long-suffering wife in the British comedy Fawlty Towers and her award-nominated role as Queen Elizabeth II in the British film A Question of Attribution.-Career:Throughout her long career, Scales has usually been cast...

, Hugh Laurie

Hugh Laurie

James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE , better known as Hugh Laurie , is an English actor, voice artist, comedian, writer, musician, recording artist, and director...

, and Robert Hardy

Robert Hardy

Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy, CBE, FSA is an English actor with a long career in the theatre, film and television. He is also an acknowledged expert on the longbow.-Early life:...

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Video Arts also distribute independently made training films such as Who Moved My Cheese?, produced by Dr Spencer Johnson

Spencer Johnson (writer)

Spencer Johnson is known for the ValueTales series of children's books, and for his 1998 motivational book Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life, which recurred on the New York Times Bestseller list, on the Publishers Weekly Hardcover nonfiction list...

, Innocent Success, produced by Fresh Tracks

Fresh tracks

Fresh Tracks, is a training and events business based in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. The company delivers programmes worldwide with particular emphasis on United Kingdom, mainland Europe and the United Arab Emirates.-History:...

, and the hugely popular FISH!

FISH! philosophy

The FISH! philosophy is a workplace management system created by John Christensen. The system was first published as a film, with a spin-off series of books....

 training films created by John Christensen.

John Cleese sold the company in the 90s. In May 2007, the company was acquired by Tinopolis

Tinopolis

Tinopolis plc is a Welsh independent television production company, owned by its senior management and private equity company Vitruvian Partners.Tinopolis produces over 2,500 hours of television annually for more than 200 UK and foreign broadcasters....

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