No idea as there was a small movie theater in the little town I grew up in; I remember being young and going with my siblings but can't remember what we saw. The first I remember my parents taking us kids to (the town theater had benn closed quite a few years by this time) was Star Wars.
First movie at a theater I can recall the title of was Gone With The Wind. I wasn't old enough for school yet. My Mom had been wanting to see it real bad so she drug me along with her to a afternoon matinee. Must've slept through most of it as the only thing I remembered about the movie itself was the audience reaction at the "Damn" word.
Parents took me to another movie at a theater before that, a cowboy movie, but I don't remember the name or anything else about it other than they (allegedly) had the actual saddle the star rode in the movie as a promotional thing.
Went to a theater with 'Charlotte' the little girl who lived across the street on my first 'date' at 10 years old. Parents drove us and picked us up. She wore her best Sunday outfit, hair done up in curls and I wore a sport coat, dress pants, white shirt and bow tie, shined shoes, hair all slicked back with dad's "A little dab'll do-ya" Brylcreem. Don't remember much about that movie either other than it was a kids specific movie.
I don't remember the 1st, but it likely had something to do with Davy Crockett. He was a big item back then. The matinees had 2 movies running all day with cartoons in between. You paid a quarter to get in the door, then you could stay all day watching the 2 movies as many times as you liked. They didn't clear the theater with cattle prods after each movie like they do today.
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"The Ghost and Mr. Chicken", starring Don Knotts. Must have been 1966 or thereabouts.
That was my first Movie I recall seeing at a Drive-In with my Parents. It was 1966 and I was 6. That Organ music really creeped me out and Mom said I had nightmares about it. 😬
First movie in a Theatre was 1968. The Western “5 Card Stud” staring Dean Martin. Went to see it with my Uncle who was 7 years older than me. Grandma dropped us off at the Theater. The old Paramount. It had stars and clouds that moved across the ceiling of the Theatre. Cool old Theater. Saw most of the John Wayne Movies there when I was a kid. Like The Green Berets, Big Jake, HellFighters, The Cowboys, etc. Good Times as a kiddo! 🤠👍🏻
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Every Saturday the local cinema hosted “The Saturday Morning Club” in common with theatres around England, and us unaccompanied unwashed street urchins would cheer all the goodies in the B&W American Cowboy movies and boo all the baddies 🙂
The first REAL movie I recall I woulda been seven. Me, my brother and a group of boys from our street walked about two miles across town to see “Zulu”. The whole front on the movie theatre was decked out in Zulu posters and more big free-standing cardboard cutouts in the lobby.
What a great first movie, ain’t been topped since 😎
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