Cinema at home: The Fifth Element (recreating Virgin cinema 1997 intro reel)

[@AlgoEX997]

Love the fact you've gone slightly more recent, brilliant reel!😊

[@FilmBrain]

I definitely smiled at you using the VHS rips of the Virgin idents and the Medicinema ad I posted back in the day. They upscaled really well! (I've been enjoying this channel for a while now.)

[@jonnof77]

Thank you! These are my own rips, though you certainly showed me where to look (took a couple of copies to assemble transfers without VHS dropouts). For VHS, they scrubbed up pretty well!

[@FilmBrain]

@@jonnof77 Ah, that would account for why they look better as rips! Yeah, I'd imagine those Blazing Trailers tapes are hard to come by. If you find the 1996 one, that also has the Virgin Cola ad (several times).

[@reubenward330]

25 secs in and I’m already excited for this vintage cinema reel! Also the Cineworld cinema closest to where I live in Bedford used to be a Virgin cinema.

[@VictoryStarProductions]

Woah, a Virgin Cinema Reel, pretty interesting. Maybe you should do a 2000s Cinema Reel sometime in the future

[@plushblueep]

Well this is a new one!

[@RediffusionMusic]

Hey man, would love to see a UCI or MGM Cinemas ad reel - where to get high quality idents for either, I don’t know sadly. I’ve got an MGM-branded Austin Armstrong 306C amplifier along with 4 UCI Cinemas branded SST 600W power amplifiers in my DJ residency powering some JBL cabinets, funnily enough the PA version of what cinemas used, utilising identical 2226 and 2241 drive units!

[@danielwilliamson6180]

The Fifth Element starring Milla Jovovich and Bruce Willis is a classic sci-fi action fantasy comedy movie. Star Wars meets Blade Runner. My mother loves Fifth Element

[@grahamandrewsharpe1941]

2:53 Is that Kelly Macdonald?

[@antster1983]

The multiplex at Robin Park in Wigan opened in December 1996 as a Virgin Cinema. It was going to be an MGM when the deal was first signed in 1995, but then Virgin acquired the MGM chain. I remember it having Carlton Screen Advertising when I first went in about a year after it opened, but home video of its construction shows a Pearl & Dean ad reel being shown - kzbin.info/www/bejne/qp2qoJudp5qpd5I It closed last year when Empire Cinemas went into administration, but it has since been acquired by Irish chain Omniplex Cinemas, and they're refurbishing the place with a food truck, a beer & cocktails van, recliner seating and sofa beds in all screens, and a premium Omniplex MAXX screen. It's reopening later this summer.

[@RupuruduWafidu]

Didnt Virgin Cinemas use Pearl & Dean as their ad supplier? At least they definitely did in 1996, there is footage of a show starting from then on youtube

[@jonnof77]

It's possible, though my own recollections of this time were of all my local cinemas (including Virgin) using Cinema Media / Carlton. Perhaps it was a regional thing?

[@RupuruduWafidu]

@@jonnof77 could be because of a lot of Virgin locations being takeovers of existing cinemas so contracts were already in place In 2017, the AMC cinema near me became an Odeon but they still continued to use Pearl & Dean there for at least 6 months before switching to DCM

[@Klug2424]

Where are all the ads from?

[@angeljrproductions4399]

Idea: Lord Of The Rings(1978)

[@frankrtwiw]

Well this makes a nice change. Now I'm wondering if there'll be a UCI reel in the future.

[@jonnof77]

I don't really have the nostalgia for UCI that I have for MGM and Virgin, but never say never!

[@blakerascon7745]

Cinema Reel suggestion: Happy Tree Friends (1995)

[@purefoldnz3070]

Virgin Cola? bahahahaha wonder how long that lasted.