I saw quite a few at the drive in with my parents which used to be a family thing. The first I remember going to at a theater was the original Star Wars parent free.
8th grade class trip ,we all went to see Gone With The Wind . A ll us boys on the back row fell out laughing when we heard " Frankly my dear I don't give a damn" and all the girls were just crying their eyes out !!
I think it was a double feature. Walt Disney. Nikki wild dog of the north and the other was the Walt Disney story of John Wesley Powell in the grand Canyon. I remember going with dad.
Back in 70 or 71 The whole junior high English class got on a bus and drove to the big town to see Mary Queen of Scotts. the teacher wanted us to pay attention to the costuming and the proper english accents
Don't remember the movie 'cause it wasn't a cartoon or a kiddy movie. Spent lot's of time at my maternal grandparents place when the parents were working or just busy. Rode a bus into the city with my grandmother to a big fancy downtown theater to catch a matinee of something she wanted to see. I was blown away by the fancy interior of the theater. IIRC it was the old RKO Palace in downtown Rochester NY because I recall that it had the word "palace" in it's name and that's what I thought it was. The inside was certainly palatial for a 5 year old who'd never seen such fancy stuff except on TV. This was circa 1955 and that place is long gone. I thought the movie sucked so I lost interest in it but the high point of my day was riding a city bus and seeing that fancy theater.
Last year High School. Senior "sneak". They drove the bus over to Boise and parked it between two theaters.
A bunch of kids wanted to see "The Exorcist" but the chaperones told them they were on their own, with that. They did not want to hear from the parents about it. So half the class headed one direction to see "The Exorcist" while the rest of us went the other way to see "The Great Gatsby" along with the chaperones.
What a disappointment! I should have sat on the bus and read a book.
The next movie was a first date with a young lady I worked with. Four years later, 1978, "Capricorn One" with the OJ.
Except for that long forgotten, dull matinee movie I saw at age 5 with my grandmother in my previous post; the first one that I can recall seeing in a theater was "The Alamo" back in 1960. Saw that on a Saturday afternoon with my cousin. That would have been the first movie theater experience where I watched the entire movie from start to finish and it was pretty exciting for a 10 year old.
How the West was Won. The theme music still gives me chills.
How the West Was Won---The first one...Thats the same movie I remember seeing for the first time in a theater. Looked it up, was released in 1962. Still a pretty good movie.
Earliest one I remember was A Hole in the Head. I remember the song High Hopes. I was little and I thought the part about an ant moving a rubber tree plant was hilarious.
Don't know if its the first, but it was the first that my family all went together to a real movie theater. We saw the Yellow Rose of Texas with John Wayne.Of course we got to see the news reel and at least one cartoon was shown. I think kids were ten cents, adults were a quarter. The six of us cost dad ninety cents. WE could not afford the pop corn though. Big money back in those days.
We had neighbor that had some kind of connections so he could get a projector and full length movies. He would put a big sheet up on his outside garage wall and the neighborhood would gather on his lawn and watch free movies. I have no recollection what they were, but a lot of B&W cowboy movies with Tex Ritter, Lash Larue, Hopalong Casidy, Red Ryder and such
My older brother and 2 older cousins took me to this movie. There’s a scene where Bigfoot slams his fist through the cabin window! To this day, I’ll never forget everyone screaming. Scared the he11 out me back then! My mom was pissed they took me! haha
Can’t remember the name , but some guy was driving a charger I think it was , on a cross country bet and ended up crashing into a dozer road block at the end . Sometime in the early-mid seventies . Kenneth
Can’t remember the name , but some guy was driving a charger I think it was , on a cross country bet and ended up crashing into a dozer road block at the end . Sometime in the early-mid seventies . Kenneth
Vanishing Point. Great flick. It was a Challenger.
"Magnum Force" When i was 10 yrs old... My older sister bought me a ticket and ditched me there for a couple hrs... I thought it was Thrilling!, And to this day the only handgun i own is a "357 Magnum"... Went back on my own and watched "American Graffiti"... Problem with that was, I grew up to be "Bob Falfa"... lol
Pinnochio at the Hollywood in College Hill. I was 3. It was a complete fiasco. I think it was the whale that set me off and I panicked and went up over the back of the seat. Mom had to take me out of the theatre.
They had a similar problem with Babes in Toyland. There was about a year's hiatus before they tried it again. The first one I sat through was 101 Dalmations.
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.
"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! 🤠👍🏻
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 😎
First I remember was Sink the Bismark, viewed at a drive-in. Others seen at the Langley in Prince George’s County, MD were Dog of Flanders, Darby O’Gill and the Little People, and Invaders from Mars.
First I remember was Sink the Bismark, viewed at a drive-in. Others seen at the Langley in Prince George’s County, MD were Dog of Flanders, Darby O’Gill and the Little People, and Invaders from Mars.
Darby O’Gill..... sheer terror when the banshee arrived, I covered my eyes, I couldn’t watch
First I remember was Sink the Bismark, viewed at a drive-in. Others seen at the Langley in Prince George’s County, MD were Dog of Flanders, Darby O’Gill and the Little People, and Invaders from Mars.
Darby O’Gill..... sheer terror when the banshee arrived, I covered my eyes, I couldn’t watch
We did mostly drive-ins with 4 kids. We had a choice: Windows up and fogged up or windows down and mosquitos. The first I can remember was "101 Dalmatians".
The first I can remember in an actual theater (The Strand) was "The Blue Max". We lived in a small city and the theater was about a 1/2 mile walk. I was 10 yrs old (1966) and it was a matinee that I attended with my 11yr old brother.
ps First boobs was the same year and the movie was "Hawaii". Native Hawaiian boobs.
The first i remebefr was smokey and the bandit! Second was red dawn I think a Smokey and the bandit remake would be great but can’t think who to play Burt
The first i remebefr was smokey and the bandit! Second was red dawn I think a Smokey and the bandit remake would be great but can’t think who to play Burt
It would either be Vin Diesel, The Rock or Tracy Morgan
First I remember was Sink the Bismark, viewed at a drive-in. Others seen at the Langley in Prince George’s County, MD were Dog of Flanders, Darby O’Gill and the Little People, and Invaders from Mars.
Darby O’Gill..... sheer terror when the banshee arrived, I covered my eyes, I couldn’t watch
You and me both!
Invaders From Mars was pretty scary too.
Invaders was at the top of my SciFi movie list. But I think I saw it on a TV.
First I can remember at a "thee ay ter" is How the West was Won.
That scene of the bison crashing through dugout roof, about the 2:16 mark scared the crap out of a 7.5 year old kid. In glorious Cinemascope and Technicolor crap too.
To piggy back Wabi's movie thread, what was the first movie you ever saw in a theatre?
Mine was "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams"
I was very young but it left a lasting impression on me.
Not exactly sure, but I think it might have been "Gone With The Wind". I do know it was at the theater in Hickory Plains, Ar. It was gone a few years later with most of the rest of the business' there. People moving from the small farms to the city. miles
The first I remember were films in 1966...either the Blue Max with George Peppard, or Grand Prix with Steve Mcqueen. I do not know which one I saw first.
I have the vaguest recollections of Johnathan Livingston Seagull. Really just memories of memories at this point probably. That of standing up, looking over the seat backs, music and birds flying. I would have been 4.
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