I was the last of 4 children,so my first cinema film would have been when I was old enough to buy my own ticket(my dear ma and pa OVER IT by then).Ghostbusters it was I think
I remember my folks taking my brother and I to the drive-in in our small town when we were little. We'd be in our pajamas with pillows and blankets in the back seat. I suspect we never made it to the second feature. It was standard Disney fare. I remember specifically Bambi and Old Yeller (oh, the trauma!), but they took us to a bunch of the animated movies.
I have a younger brother and we went to the drive-in wearing pajamas too. I remember my Mom having a bucket of ice with Coke bottles. Weren't ice chests invented by the 60's??
My Mom says they took me to the drive-in when I was a toddler and by the time we got home I was only wearing panties because I had thrown all of my clothes and shoes out the window. Mom and Dad must have been making out and forgot to watch their kid!
At the drive-in: I was apparently going to drive-ins from the time I was a week old, according to my baby book, but the first one I remember going to was Mary Poppins, the night before my brother was born. The main thing I remember about that evening was that the stalls in the ladies' room were this kind of blue-green color; when I mentioned that to my mom years later, she said "I'm not surprised--you spent half the movie in the bathroom!" It's been suggested that her having to run me back and forth to the can might have been what triggered her labor, because my brother was born at 10:45 the next morning. I definitely remember seeing Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with both my younger siblings (my brother would have been around 4 and my sister 2); it was on a double bill with Yellow Submarine, but the Blue Meanies and the Glove scared me enough that we ended up going home. Finally saw it years later, and understood how it could freak out an 8-year-old of delicate sensibilities--I still think that damn Glove was creepy as hell!
In an actual theatre: The Spy Who Loved Me, with my friend Bonnie who drove us 20 miles to the nearest theatre; IIRC, we were both 16 at the time. There used to me a movie theatre in our home town, but by the time we were small, the only thing left was the drive-in during the summer months.
The Sound of Music (although not in it's original release, but still on the big screen) and I remember being terrified when the SS soldiers were looking for the Von Trapp family. Still love this one.
I can't recall, but I will never forget my mom took me to see The Shining when I was 10! I actually read the book when it first came out, and remember throwing it in the trashcan every day because it was too scary, then pulling it out the next day when I was feeling braver. I even visited The Stanley Hotel in Colorado on my first visit to Colorado when I was 9. It creeped me the hell out, and to this day The Shining is the creepiest movie I've ever seen. I will never re-watch it. My mom thought it was funny, btw.
My dad took me to see Snow White when my baby brother was born when I was 3. Around his birth are my oldest memories. I remember being really scared and taken out of the theater, and shortly after I remember visiting my brother and my mom in the hospital.
I know I saw Disney films like Cinderella & Snow White, but the one I remembered the most was Mary Poppins. My mom let me take a friend which was a huge deal. We were bummed that Mom snuck in snacks instead of getting popcorn. But looking back, she paid for all 3 of us, so I understand now.
The second best was going to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with both of my parents. My dad was self-employed, so it was hard to do things like that. I was on top of the world that day.:-)
Stir Crazy with Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. I was eight years old, and it was the first time I ever saw boobs. I wanted to see The Empire Strikes Back, but my mom said I was too young to see it. #EpicParentingFail
Jaws. I was 5 and my mom sent me with my 11-yr-old uncle. I've been afraid of sharks ever since, which wasn't an issue when I lived in WI, but now that I'm in Tampa, I can't go in the water.
I am terrified of sharks too. That word should be universal. I learned it in four other languages just so if I were in the ocean and a tourist yelled it I'd know they were saying "shark".
Song of the South. Anyone remember that one? A classmates mom rented out the theater for a private showing. Boy oh boy is it scarce to come by these days (wonder why?)
@Bacon Ranch: When I was closing down my parents home, I found the Song of the South illustrated album. The 78 record version! Does anyone remember those vintage records? :faint:
Also found the Mickey Mouse illustrated 78 album as Jack in the Beanstalk. Now that one I can probably find a buyer. ;-)
We still have those records too. Brer Rabbit and the tar baby. Not PC at all. We have the olde Disney records that had the picture books in the album cover. Peter Pan, Cinderella and Pinnochio.
The first one I clearly remember was 101 Dalmatians, but I'm sure I saw some earlier than that. I even have a vague recollection of seeing Psycho at the drive-in, but I don't know if that really happened or if I'm making it up. My mother doesn't remember it. (But it would explain a lot of things!)
The Great Mouse Detective, and I remember their was a smoking section in the theater and that my Father left to go smoke in it while my Mom stayed with me and my brother.
The Great Mouse Detective, and I remember their was a smoking section in the theater and that my Father left to go smoke in it while my Mom stayed with me and my brother.
I remember going to see Aladdin. The first movie I went to was The Fox and the Hound - mum says I cried all through the shorts and then fell asleep when the movie started.
The Cat from Outer Space; became obsessed with wanting a cat after that one. My friends mom also took us to see Can't Stop the Music, the story of the Village People featuring Bruce Jenner in short shorts when I was 7. It was my first PG movie and had both naked men and boobies!
It was 1962 at the old Olympia Theater in downtown Miami. I was with my best friend and we saw Dr. No. What a mind blowing experience. After the movie ended, we both sat in silence trying to understand what just happened. My best friend said, "Let's watch it again" and without hesitation, I agreed.
I know RIGHT? I remember that scene. Freaked me right the fuck out. I also couldn't believe the way they beat those kids at the orphanage. Hideous. I confess I have the soundtrack on vinyl though.
The first movie I ever saw in a theater was The Marx Brothers' Duck Soup. No, it was not the original release! I refused to go to see 2001: A Space Odyssey and I was quite the stubborn little kid.
The first movies I saw at a drive-inn was a Billy Jack/Jerimiah Johnson/ Live and Let Die triple feature. I hated Jerimiah Johnson and took a nap during that movie...boring! The other two were great.
It was either Abbot and Costello movie or Wizard of Oz. think it was first, and it was MGM, and logo with lion growling scared the crap outta me. I was real little, mb 4, or just not very bright cause i also thought the lion logo was the movie, so i was ready to go home, lol. Im just realizing that was probably in 1954 or 5. Wow. I am old.
One of the first I can remember, was some hideous movie we ended up walking out of. It was about these white explorers who went to Africa for some reason and they end up getting captured by this African tribe. The tribe then sets up a hunt, where they let the white men go and then they hunt them down. One guy gets shot with arrows and I'm thinking someone sinks in quicksand. They even have a scene where the tribe shot an elephant and they're gutting it (I shit you not). Talk about being traumatized! To this day even my mother remembers us all getting up and walking out of that movie. I don't know what the fuck my parents were thinking about, taking us to see that mess.
I kid you not: Chucky.
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DeleteAn animated film from the USSR, The Snow Queen. She frightened me so badly I threw up after I got home. I think I was 4. It was very dramatic.
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The Muppet Movie
The Fox and the Hound.
ReplyDeleteI cried for days and have never watched it again.
I'm thinking it was 101 Dalmations, but it could have been Snow White.
ReplyDeleteI was the last of 4 children,so my first cinema film would have been when I was old enough to buy my own ticket(my dear ma and pa OVER IT by then).Ghostbusters it was I think
ReplyDeleteI remember my folks taking my brother and I to the drive-in in our small town when we were little. We'd be in our pajamas with pillows and blankets in the back seat. I suspect we never made it to the second feature. It was standard Disney fare. I remember specifically Bambi and Old Yeller (oh, the trauma!), but they took us to a bunch of the animated movies.
ReplyDeleteI have a younger brother and we went to the drive-in wearing pajamas too. I remember my Mom having a bucket of ice with Coke bottles. Weren't ice chests invented by the 60's??
DeleteMy Mom says they took me to the drive-in when I was a toddler and by the time we got home I was only wearing panties because I had thrown all of my clothes and shoes out the window. Mom and Dad must have been making out and forgot to watch their kid!
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. With the whole family. First and only time with both parents. On a Sunday afternoon. Big treat for us back then.
ReplyDeleteAt the drive-in: I was apparently going to drive-ins from the time I was a week old, according to my baby book, but the first one I remember going to was Mary Poppins, the night before my brother was born. The main thing I remember about that evening was that the stalls in the ladies' room were this kind of blue-green color; when I mentioned that to my mom years later, she said "I'm not surprised--you spent half the movie in the bathroom!" It's been suggested that her having to run me back and forth to the can might have been what triggered her labor, because my brother was born at 10:45 the next morning. I definitely remember seeing Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with both my younger siblings (my brother would have been around 4 and my sister 2); it was on a double bill with Yellow Submarine, but the Blue Meanies and the Glove scared me enough that we ended up going home. Finally saw it years later, and understood how it could freak out an 8-year-old of delicate sensibilities--I still think that damn Glove was creepy as hell!
DeleteIn an actual theatre: The Spy Who Loved Me, with my friend Bonnie who drove us 20 miles to the nearest theatre; IIRC, we were both 16 at the time. There used to me a movie theatre in our home town, but by the time we were small, the only thing left was the drive-in during the summer months.
Snow white and the seven dwarfs. I was five and it was the 50th anniversary re-release
ReplyDeleteThe Sound of Music (although not in it's original release, but still on the big screen) and I remember being terrified when the SS soldiers were looking for the Von Trapp family. Still love this one.
ReplyDeleteAnnie with my Grandma. Man, I miss her, she was and will forever be, my favorite person!
ReplyDeleteI can't recall, but I will never forget my mom took me to see The Shining when I was 10! I actually read the book when it first came out, and remember throwing it in the trashcan every day because it was too scary, then pulling it out the next day when I was feeling braver. I even visited The Stanley Hotel in Colorado on my first visit to Colorado when I was 9. It creeped me the hell out, and to this day The Shining is the creepiest movie I've ever seen. I will never re-watch it. My mom thought it was funny, btw.
ReplyDeleteMy dad took me to see Snow White when my baby brother was born when I was 3. Around his birth are my oldest memories. I remember being really scared and taken out of the theater, and shortly after I remember visiting my brother and my mom in the hospital.
ReplyDeleteI know I saw Disney films like Cinderella & Snow White, but the one I remembered the most was Mary Poppins. My mom let me take a friend which was a huge deal. We were bummed that Mom snuck in snacks instead of getting popcorn. But looking back, she paid for all 3 of us, so I understand now.
ReplyDeleteThe second best was going to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with both of my parents. My dad was self-employed, so it was hard to do things like that. I was on top of the world that day.:-)
Jungle Book, in my jammies at the drive-in. That drive-in was leveled to become a subdivision, sigh.
ReplyDeleteStir Crazy with Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. I was eight years old, and it was the first time I ever saw boobs. I wanted to see The Empire Strikes Back, but my mom said I was too young to see it. #EpicParentingFail
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome Bally!
DeleteJaws. I was 5 and my mom sent me with my 11-yr-old uncle. I've been afraid of sharks ever since, which wasn't an issue when I lived in WI, but now that I'm in Tampa, I can't go in the water.
ReplyDeleteI am terrified of sharks too. That word should be universal. I learned it in four other languages just so if I were in the ocean and a tourist yelled it I'd know they were saying "shark".
DeleteSong of the South. Anyone remember that one? A classmates mom rented out the theater for a private showing.
ReplyDeleteBoy oh boy is it scarce to come by these days (wonder why?)
@Bacon Ranch: When I was closing down my parents home, I found the Song of the South illustrated album. The 78 record version! Does anyone remember those vintage records? :faint:
DeleteAlso found the Mickey Mouse illustrated 78 album as Jack in the Beanstalk. Now that one I can probably find a buyer. ;-)
We still have those records too. Brer Rabbit and the tar baby. Not PC at all. We have the olde Disney records that had the picture books in the album cover. Peter Pan, Cinderella and Pinnochio.
DeleteI think it was The Absent Minded Professor. Yeah, 1961.
ReplyDeleteProbably a Bond movie with my dad. Or the jungle book at the drive-in. Drive in's were awesome.
ReplyDeleteThe first one I clearly remember was 101 Dalmatians, but I'm sure I saw some earlier than that. I even have a vague recollection of seeing Psycho at the drive-in, but I don't know if that really happened or if I'm making it up. My mother doesn't remember it. (But it would explain a lot of things!)
ReplyDeleteThe shaggy dog movie. Was it Benji? At the drive in, great fun :)
ReplyDeleteThe Great Mouse Detective, and I remember their was a smoking section in the theater and that my Father left to go smoke in it while my Mom stayed with me and my brother.
ReplyDeleteThe Great Mouse Detective, and I remember their was a smoking section in the theater and that my Father left to go smoke in it while my Mom stayed with me and my brother.
ReplyDeleteI remember going to see Aladdin. The first movie I went to was The Fox and the Hound - mum says I cried all through the shorts and then fell asleep when the movie started.
ReplyDeleteDisney's Pollyanna starring Hayley Mills. My older sister and a friend of hers took me, then got mad because I cried at the end.
ReplyDeleteThe Cat from Outer Space; became obsessed with wanting a cat after that one. My friends mom also took us to see Can't Stop the Music, the story of the Village People featuring Bruce Jenner in short shorts when I was 7. It was my first PG movie and had both naked men and boobies!
ReplyDeleteIt was 1962 at the old Olympia Theater in downtown Miami. I was with my best friend and we saw Dr. No. What a mind blowing experience. After the movie ended, we both sat in silence trying to understand what just happened. My best friend said, "Let's watch it again" and without hesitation, I agreed.
ReplyDeleteOliver ...traumatized by Nancy's brutal & unexpected beating to death... thanks for that mom & dad
ReplyDeleteI know RIGHT? I remember that scene. Freaked me right the fuck out. I also couldn't believe the way they beat those kids at the orphanage. Hideous. I confess I have the soundtrack on vinyl though.
DeleteThe first movie I ever saw in a theater was The Marx Brothers' Duck Soup. No, it was not the original release! I refused to go to see 2001: A Space Odyssey and I was quite the stubborn little kid.
ReplyDeleteThe first movies I saw at a drive-inn was a Billy Jack/Jerimiah Johnson/ Live and Let Die triple feature. I hated Jerimiah Johnson and took a nap during that movie...boring! The other two were great.
It was either Abbot and Costello movie or Wizard of Oz. think it was first, and it was MGM, and logo with lion growling scared the crap outta me. I was real little, mb 4, or just not very bright cause i also thought the lion logo was the movie, so i was ready to go home, lol. Im just realizing that was probably in 1954 or 5. Wow. I am old.
ReplyDeletemy s.o's "Towering Inferno " -that was intense for back then
ReplyDeleteI saw all the Disneys at the drive in with my parents
ReplyDeleteFirst movie in a cinema... Grease
Gremlins
ReplyDeleteFor Your Eyes Only w Roger Moore as Bond
ReplyDeleteOne of the first I can remember, was some hideous movie we ended up walking out of. It was about these white explorers who went to Africa for some reason and they end up getting captured by this African tribe. The tribe then sets up a hunt, where they let the white men go and then they hunt them down. One guy gets shot with arrows and I'm thinking someone sinks in quicksand. They even have a scene where the tribe shot an elephant and they're gutting it (I shit you not). Talk about being traumatized! To this day even my mother remembers us all getting up and walking out of that movie. I don't know what the fuck my parents were thinking about, taking us to see that mess.
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ReplyDeleteStar Wars IV A New Hope. Wow!!
ReplyDeleteStar Wars IV A New Hope. Wow!!
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