What is the first movie you remember seeing in the cinema?

[Mr. Ected]

Munsters Go Home. I kid you not. Next in line - a double-feature of HR Pufnstuf and In the Ghetto with Elvis.

No wonder I'm seriously conflicted 40 years later.

How about you?

[denbot]

1. The Ghost and Mr Chicken..

For some reason it scared the hell out of me..

[DLine]

2. I have a vague memory

of seeing E.T.

[Hissyspit]

3. Don't really know, but the first DRIVE-IN movie I ever saw was

"True Grit"

The 'Kim Darby in the Snake Pit' scene scared the bejeezus out of me. Now I watch it and go 'oh, you can see the glass separating them.'

[Bennyboy]

5. Mary Poppins at the FOX in Downtown Sacramento...

Beautiful ornate theater with curved staircases and a caramel corn stand next door.

[Hissyspit]

7. I remember seeing Mary Poppins in the theatre, too.

The "Feed The Birds" old lady scene in it scared the bejeezus out of me, but I was amazed at the sidewalk chalk drawing scene.

It really is a beautifully art-directed movie. I must have seen a re-release because I was only 1 when it first came out.

[begin_within]

104. Well, give it another try

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHrRxQVUFN4

"Mary Poppins" is a masterwork that towers over 99% of all other films, in my opinion. Multiple interlocking themes still relevant today, superb cast down to the tiniest bit part, unforgettable songs, dazzling special effects, witty and sarcastic script - a landmark piece of film that has few if any equals.

[LibDemAlways]

94. FOX was THE name in California movie theatres back then. Passed

a still standing FOX theatre near LAX the other day. It had been converted into several different stores but the FOX logo is still evident. Imagine a theatre that played one movie at a time and still managed to turn a profit.

[hayu_lol]

4. I must have been about 3 or 4 years old...

Parents bundled me up in pajamas, slippers, and bathrobe for the event. Remember to this day, some of the scenes from that movie. It was a rarity for the time, done in flaming technicolor. It certainly was the color that got my attention at the time('39-'40).

Finally saw it again on tv many years ago: Drums Along The Mohawk w/Claudette Colbert and other notables.

Fantasia came out about the same time, but parents felt that I was too young to see it at that time.

[kimi]

6. "Born Free"

That first scene still haunts me.

And the song - whoo boy. Gets me every time.

[MiddleFingerMom]

8. H.G. Wells "The Time Machine" -- the 1960 version...

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...and those Morlocks gave me night-shivers for a long, LONG time...
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...but Yvette Mimieux as Weena gave me night SWEATS for even longer --
even at that tender age.
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[LibDemAlways]

55. That was one scary movie for a kid. I remember leaving the

theatre thinking that the end of the world was imminent.

[flvegan]

9. The Return of the Pink Panther

It was at the drive in with my folks and my brother. I think I was 4 or 5.

[david13]

10. Fantasia? I was a tiny kid. Scared me silly. I was freaked, as they say.

Nightmares. I should have sued Disney. Hey, maybe I will.
dc

[peacefreak]

79. Me too.

the Sorcerer's Apprentice terrorized me. The next one I remember is Bambi--and look how that one turned out!

[blue_onyx]

11. Oliver & Company

[charlie and algernon]

52. holy crap! That was mine too!

I remember my mom taking me.

[seabeyond]

12. sound of music. nt

[XemaSab]

13. Return of the Jedi

The projector broke down when Leia is alone in the forests of Endor.

[NoPasaran]

14. 101 Dalmatians

The animated version, of course. Saw it in a big fancy theater in Colorado Springs. I guess I was five or six.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

43. Me, too. I remember the theater had a 'crying room' where we wound up because of my little brother.

[msu2ba]

15. Darby O'Gill and the Little People

It's hard to tell which was scarier: The Banshee or Sean Connery singing!

[Capn Sunshine]

68. While it wasn't the first movie I saw that banshee thing scared the shit out of me

even creepier was the funeral wagon that comes down from the sky ( Black mariah?)
damn that creeped me out. Fucking Disney always gets your tiny brain into the dark expecting a fun fest and permanently scars you for life.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

106. I was terrified about going to sleep afterward.

:scared:

[pokerfan]

16. Disney's

[wysimdnwyg]

95. More Disney

My first movie that I remember seeing....

[Odin2005]

17. Aladdin.

[Brickbat]

18. Star Wars in 1977. It was fucking awesome. I was six.

[texanwitch]

19. I don't remember but The Thing was the first movie that scared me.

The stupid monster scared me silly for some reason.

My aunt had to buy me a special anti Thing teddy bear.

I still have that teddy bear.

I had nightmares before I got that teddy bear.

Smart Aunt.

[haele]

20. Mary Poppins

I'm pretty sure we went to the theatre for that one. I do remember we used to see re-releases at the Student Union while my folks were going through college, and it's a bit blurry as to what I might have seen first.
Haele

[doc03]

21. The first I remember for sure is Old Yeller in 1957

I would have been 9. I remember Davey Crockett King of The Wild Frontier, I would have been 7 in 1955 but I am not sure if I saw it at the cinema or on TV later. Yea I had a coonskin cap too.

[doc03]

22. Delete duplicate post. n/t

[bigwillq]

23. ET (nt)

[PassingFair]

24. Gidget Goes Hawaiian.

My mother dropped me and my "date" off at the
front door.

I also remember seeing the original "The Love Bug"
at the theater.

I think I was about 8.

[Joe Fields]

25. Ben Hur

[Brother Buzz]

58. That's the one I remember, too

I believe I was taken to see Bambi re-released by Disney a year or two before, but Ben-Hur was the film I remember vividly.

[Petrushka]

26. A late 30s Walt Disney production --->

[proteus_lives]

27. Fox and the Hound.

With my mom. I was but a wee lad.

[MiddleFingerMom]

28. Not my first -- but the first that I wasn't SUPPOSED to see...

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...our town had two old-fashioned theatres (lots of red velvet and golden
cherubs) right around the corner from each other in the center of downtown.
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I was somewhere near the cusp of adolescense when MiddleFingerMomMom
dropped me and my best friend Ricky off to see "Old Yeller" at the Capitol
Theatre. As SOON as she turned the corner, Ricky and I ran around the other
corner and went in to the Michigan Theatre to see "The Graduate".
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Ricky's mom dropped me off at home later and, on entering, I IMMEDIATELY
made a beeline for my bedroom. MiddleFingerMomMom called, "How was the
movie?"
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"It was about some dog. It was really sad. I gottago abed now. Goodnight."
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I never DID see "Old Yeller" until within the last decade or so.
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It was about some dog. It was really sad.
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I have maintained a lifelong lust for Mrs. Robinson ever since.
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Benjamin: For god's sake, Mrs. Robinson. Here we are. You got me
into your house. You give me a drink. You... put on music. Now you
start opening up your personal life to me and tell me your husband
won't be home for hours.
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Mrs. Robinson: So?
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Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me.
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Mrs. Robinson: Huh?
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Benjamin: Aren't you?
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Mrs. Robinson: Benjamin, I am not trying to seduce you.
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Benjamin: I know that, but please, Mrs. Robinson, this is difficult...
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Mrs. Robinson: Would you like me to seduce you?
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How fortunate it all turned out to be.
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Had things turned out differently, I might have maintained a lifelong
lust for Old Yeller.
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My life has been charmed like that.
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[Lindsey]

29. To Kill A Mockingbird. n/t

[Seneca]

30. The Lady and The Tramp

Was 3 or 4 at the time.

[MrScorpio]

31. Sounder

School trip

[Lucian]

32. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.

I was in kindergarten when it came out.

[lazarus]

33. Disney's Song of the South

in a drive-in. The one movie Disney will never release on DVD.

[Flying Dream Blues]

34. Mary Poppins.

My grandmother took us, and I think there was a Beatles' short film first. Everyone screamed as if they were seeing the actual Beatles.

[Duer 157099]

35. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood

It was November 7th, 1963, the premiere of the film and the opening of the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood.

[Richardo]

42. You're my hero

I've been to the Cinerame Dome many times, but opening day? that rocks. :thumbsup: Plus - one of my all-time favorite movies!

[Duer 157099]

70. Well I can't really take credit, I was such a little kid I had nothing to do with it

I was just along for the ride. All I know is that is the first film I can ever recall seeing, and that it was at the Cinerama Dome. And I didn't realize it was opening day until yesterday when I Googled to see when the film came out. I was quite surprised!

I've only seen a handful of films there, including 2001: A Space Odyssey when it came out.

That was an awesome theater.

[Richardo]

71. I saw 2001 there a few times - not during its first run, however.

I was only 12 in 1968 and driving from the desert to LA would have been frowned upon by state and local authorities, and my parents. :D

[Duer 157099]

105. Guess what was on TV today?

Yep, It's a Mad... World. I watched it. It's been many decades since I've seen it! That was one star-studded film, wasn't it? I mean, everybody was in it!

Fun stuff. A simpler time. So many of those California locations are covered with buildings now.

[Ron Green]

36. High Noon

I remember my mother saying to my father as we left the theater that "Westerns will never be the same after this."

[MilesColtrane]

37. "The Blue Max"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Max

It was at a drive in.

I remember the pre-movie audio program was a cleaned up version of Moms Mabley's stand up routines.

[Tabasco_Dave]

38. Winnie The Pooh

Drive in early 1970's.

[HEyHEY]

39. I'm sure it was Star man or return of the jedi

Oh, Jedi was 83, musta been that

[6000eliot]

40. The Sound of Music

[Blue_Tires]

41. The Muppet Movie

[Richardo]

44. "Babes in Toyland"

The Disney version from 1961. Would have been 5 years old.

[UTUSN]

45. "Them" - scared me s***less. n/t

[femmocrat]

46. "Pinocchio"

I was terrified of the whale and remember hiding down in the seat!

[GalleryGod]

47. Babes in Toyland!

Must've been the "safe" kiddie movie of that era!:rofl:

[LibDemAlways]

57. I remember seeing that one too. It was playing at the Fox Redondo Beach

which was a theatre either on or next to a pier. It smelled like fish in there.

[GalleryGod]

59. High Street Theater for me!

:loveya:

[velvet]

48. Around the World in 80 Days in the late '50s

Starred David Niven and Cantinflas. At the long-gone Paris cinema in downtown Sydney.

[bikebloke]

49. One or the other.

Pepe or In Search of the Castaways. Whichever came out first, I guess. My grandmother took me to both.

[AngryAmish]

50. Bug and Orca

What were they thinking? I was like 9.

[JitterbugPerfume]

51. The Barefoot Contessa

in 1954 . It starred Humphrey Bogart and Ava Gardner. I had a very strict and religious father , so I had to sneak to the Castle Theater , I remember taking my little sister and my niece with me


Yep--I was a rebel at 13 LOL

[Bombero1956]

53. Grand Prix

With James Garner, Yves Montand, Jessica Walter and Eva Marie Saint. Cost me 50 cents to get in.

[kentauros]

54. Either "Sleeping Beauty" or "Song of the South"

I can't remember at this point.

I do remember the one that gave me nightmares was "Run Wild, Run Free" when the image of Death pops up somewhere near the end...

[SoCalDem]

56. Lifeboat

:scared:

[Broken_Hero]

60. E.T. nt

[Ryano42]

61. Dirty Harry

I was pretty young...too young I fear and the violence seared into my memory.

Even seeing today I have a very visceral reaction to the girl being sniped and other parts of it.

Didn't seem to mind the nudity... :P

I also remembering being scared to death watching "Chariots of the Gods?" when they showed the "god of mars" EEEK!!!

[Flaxbee]

62. Bad News Bears, and the Popeye with Robin Williams

My poor older sister sat through both of them with me :D

[sarge43]

63. Christopher Columbus, 1949

Responsible for my hobby as an amateur film critic - even at 5 years old I thought it sucked.

[livetohike]

64. "The Man in the Iron Mask" and it scared me to death

I think I was four or five years old.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

65. I vaguely remember my parents going to see the film adaptation of Carmen with my aunt...

...and deciding to take me along. And I also remember being very bored and having to go out of the movie theater multiple times.

I may have also seen reruns of Disney animated movies like Pinnochio, Fantasia and a few others but don't have a clear memory of it. I may or may not have seen ET in the theaters.

The first film I clearly remember watching in the movies and sitting the whole way through? That would probably have to be "Space Camp":

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091993/

Starring (among others) Lea Thompson, Joaquin Phoenix and Tom Skerritt.

[book lady]

66. Rodan! The Flying Monster 1956

I went to the neighborhood movie theater every Friday night with my dad :)

[BlueIris]

67. "Children of a Lesser God."

I vaguely, sort of/kind of recall knowing I saw "Ghostbusters" in the theater. (I would have been about 5 at the time.) But I can't honestly claim I recall any part of my viewing experience. I do remember at least two or three scenes from "CoaLG," though, which, incidentally, I just bought on DVD.

[Capn Sunshine]

69. it was definitely a Disney movie

Either "Davy Crockett" or Fantasia.

Would have been 1955 or 56

[FedUpWithIt All]

72. War of the Worlds and The Black Hole.

War of the Worlds had the biggest impact. I was in kindergarten and my mother let me walk three blocks with a couple of 1st graders. The movie scared me so badly i sat on the floor of the theater and faced my chair nearly the entire time.

Good times. :eyes:

I saw the Black Hole with my parents at the drive in around that time or earlier and faintly remember Zoro, Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Snow White at the drive in as well. Hard to say which was first though.

[Kablooie]

73. Bambi. I remember the fire scene.

[Bertha Venation]

74. Marathon Man. Age 12.

[Liberal_in_LA]

75. Either '1001 dalmations' or the cartoon where the dogs slurp spaghetti.

[cherish44]

76. Rocky I think

I was pretty young, maybe 9. I can count on one hand the movies I saw in the cinema as a kid. My parents were just too cheap we had to wait until it made it to tv

[LNM]

77. How the West Was Won

We took a "big" family trip to Minneapolis. Saw the Foshay Tower, the Star-Tribune building and then went to Golden Valley to the Cooper theater. It had some special wide screen and stereo sound. Walter Brennan scared the crap out of me.

[Old Troop]

78. The Sound of Music

[WinterParkDonkey]

80. South Pacific...

Levittown movie theatre about 1960. (First time by myself in a movie theatre).

[Doc_Technical]

81. The Great Locomotive Chase

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049279/

[applegrove]

82. Herbie the Lovebug. We went with friends of the family in about 1972.

My uncle bought us all a sweet (which we were never allowed) and he was my hero from that day forward.

[carpetbagger]

84. Herbie here as well.

Drive in.

[mysuzuki2]

83. Snow White

My mother took me to see Snow White when I was 3 - in 1951. The wicked witch scared the pants off me and I couldn't sleep for a week.

[hippywife]

85. Dumbo.

I was probably about 5 or around there. My uncle and his then fiance took me. :hi:

Edited to add: No, I'm not that old. It wasn't when it first came out. It was probably about 1963.

[SeattleGirl]

86. Can't recall the first theater one I saw, but the first drive-in movie

I saw was "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World".

[Roon]

87. That Darn Cat..

I was five years old...marshalltown iowa..

[elias49]

88. 5 Weeks in a Balloon

at the Fairmont Theater, Cleary Square, Hyde Park, Mass.

And what a cast! Red Buttons, Fabian, Barbara Eden and Peter Lorre.

[Steely_Dan]

89. 2001: A Space Odyssey

[laylah]

90. Lady and the Tramp nt

[raccoon]

91. Disney's PETER PAN. nt

[tinymontgomery]

92. Robinson Crusoe

My Grandmother took me

[Forkboy]

93. Either Disneys Robin Hood or Serpico.

I had odd parents.

[kentauros]

97. I'd say so!

:D

I'm surprised Godzilla wasn't your first ;)

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

96. Legend of the Lone Ranger - 1981

I think my mother and I were of the small handful that ever saw it in a theater.

A few weeks later we went to see Superman II, which was better.

[Maccagirl]

98. The Music Man

n/t

[KamaAina]

99. W. W. and the Dixie Dancekings

a dreadful piece of dreck with Burt Reynolds, at the long-gone Church Lane Cinemas in Cockeysville, MD.

[rrneck]

100. Gone With The Wind.

It's a wonder I ever went back.

[nickinSTL]

101. Star Wars in 1977

I was 4, unless I saw it in December that year or later.

I remember some from that viewing, but not a lot. Must have really impressed me for me to have any memory of it from being that young.

Next 2 movies I remember were both 1978 releases, Superman and...The Cat from Outer Space.

[Mike 03]

102. Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey

The most bizarre thing is that even though I went to film school and have seen thousands of films to this day, that film, 2001, remains my favorite film of all time.

[mwdem]

103. Dr. Zhivago

I so feel in love with Omar Sharif.:9

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

107. Lady And The Tramp at Radio City Music Hall. I must have been 3.

[marzipanni]

108. I went to a movie when I was three, but only remember a bit of it.

My three older brothers talked my parents into going to "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" at the drive in. It came out in 1954. I was three, and remember some discussion that I might be afraid. I slept on the back seat of the station wagon and when my brothers yelled at an exciting part I woke up, looked at the screen, saw a big octopus, yawned, and went back to sleep.

The following year we went to "Oklahoma!" in a theater. I liked it a lot. We had the album from the 1943 Broadway production, so the songs are very familiar to me.

[blue_roses_lib]

109. Top Gun..

is the first one I remember, but I think the first one I saw was E.T.

[marzipanni]

110. delete-dupe

[Whisp]

111. The Blob

it terrified me.

[Mojambo]

112. Raiders of the Lost Ark

I think it's likely I saw one or two before it, but that's the one I remember.

[pepperbear]

113. True Grit n/t

[ChoralScholar]

114. A Man Called Flintstone.

Closely followed by Gremlins.