Video Arts

{{Short description|UK producer of soft-skills training programmes}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}

{{More citations needed|date=May 2016}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Video Arts Ltd.

| logo = File:Video Arts Logo 2015.png

| type = Subsidiary

| industry = Video production
eLearning

| genre = Comedy
Learning
Soft Skills
Training

| foundation = {{start date and age|1972}}

| founder = John Cleese
Sir Antony Jay

| location_city = London

| location_country = United Kingdom

| num_employees =

| parent = Tinopolis (2007–present)

| divisions =

| subsid =

| homepage = [http://www.videoarts.com/ 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.

The company was founded in 1972 by John Cleese, Sir Antony Jay and a group of other television professionals.

Video Arts uses humour 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".{{cite web|url=http://www.videoarts.com/why-video-arts/ |title=Why |publisher=Video Arts |date=2014-05-01 |access-date=2016-05-19}}

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, Ronnie Corbett, later version with 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)
• The Unorganized Manager (John Cleese, James Bolam)

As well as corporate training videos, the company produced the comedy series Fairly Secret Army for Channel 4.