I don’t know how old I was, but my parents took me to see “Gone with the Wind.” Not exactly a film make for kids. I probably slept through the entire movie, because all I remember is being awakened to go home. I was very impressed that it was 1 a.m.;I had never been awake that late.
The whole family went to see The Sound of Music back in 1965. It opened in March, but it ran so long we probably saw it in summer sometime.
Mary Poppins in 1964. I was four. The next two I remember are Dr. Zhivago and Help! in 1965.
Probably “Empire Strikes Back” which came out when I was 6. I don’t remember much about the movie itself, but I remember thinking that I hadn’t seen the first one.
Not my first theater going experience ever- I’d been to see plenty of kiddie movies- but the first grown up movie I saw with my parents was “Poseidon Adventure”. In 1972 I would have been six. It was amazing. Today people might look askance at someone who walks into a disaster movie with a six year old but for some reason my parents seemingly had no qualms about it. Maybe my eleven year old brother and I were better behaved than the average bear today (with *my *mother one had no choice)but I think the main reason we never made a peep is that the movie was so big; so enthralling that our mouths were closed and our eyes were bugging out. The only slightly traumatic part for me was when they find the burned up guy in the engine room. I must admit that vision stuck with me for quite awhile. It was definitley a milestone for me and the start of a lifelong love of cinema,if unfortunately no longer the movie going experience. Too bad today’s audiences aren’t half as well behaved as six year olds.
Raiders of the Lost Ark. I was 5 or 6 depending on which month it was released.
Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad World on a gigantic screen. I was probably 6 and enjoyed every minute of it. Still do.
The very first sort-of movie experience was when I was 4–but it was Captain Eo at Epcot Center, so I don’t think that it counts. It scared me, and I think I had to be taken out because I was crying. It was 1987,
My first real one was when I was five; I saw Who Framed Roger Rabbit with my dad. I was five years old, and it was 1988.
I remember seeing Mary Poppins in 1964 when I was six. I also saw Disney’s The Sword in the Stone with my aunt. That came out in '63, but we saw it in a second-run movie theater, so I’m pretty sure I saw Mary Poppins first.
My great aunts took me to The Sound of Music in 1965 and I remember seeing Born Free, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the drive-in.
There was then a considerable jump to seeing a couple of movies on school field trips and having a friend’s mother drop a couple of us off at the mall when we were old enough to see movies unaccompanied.
Houston, Texas in 1937. Parents took me to see a first run of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. Still remember it vividly, along with the fact that the theater was air conditioned, and it was HOT in Houston.
First movie I ever saw in the theater was Beetle Juice. I was about ten and I remember my mom didn’t really want me to go, my dad didn’t care, and it took my friends dad, who was taking us, to convince my mom that it would be ok for us kids to see it. I remember loving the movie at the time. Today it is still one of those movies I’ll watch it every time it comes on TV.
The Rescuers, 1977, I was 8 yrs old. I went with my grandparents.
I remember seeing Snow White at the drive-in and Fantasia in a theater. Both had to be from age 5 or earlier.
Towering Inferno - 1974.
I was eight. My grandmother worked at the theater and got us in for free.
Amazed that I don’t recall anything before that.
My family didn’t go to the movies very often at all, so I remember vividly each instance because it was so rare.
When I was 4 or 5 my grandmother took me and my brother and sister to see Annie. When I was 7 for a friend’s birthday we went to see Return of the Jedi. For my 7th birthday my parents took me and my friends to see The Black Cauldron. Until I was 13 or so and started going by myself, those were my only movie theater experiences.
The ROTJ was particularly memorable because during the final lightsaber battle between Luke and Vader the projector died right as Luke went hiding under the staircase :eek:. A lot of people apparently though that was the end of the movie because they got up and left. Thankfully they fixed it after about 5 minutes.
I saw Follow that Dream with Elvis Presley at a drive in 1962. I would have been about 7. We didn’t go to movies that often since my mother couldn’t drive and my father worked the night shift.
It was a live action Disney film that nobody else around me seems to remember, called Toby Tyler, about a boy who runs away to join the circus. I could barely have been of kindergarten age.
The first movie I have distinct memories of seeing in the theatre is the Adam West Batman (1966) - although as near as I can tell I saw it in 1976. My sister took me to see it, because I was obsessed with the TV show. (I was six years old.)
I don’t think I ever saw it again - I remember a big fight scene that took place on a boat, but not much else.
I saw that one. Kevin Corcoran (my childhood favorite Disney actor) starred. My only clear memory is the chimp (Mister Tubbs?) jumping on someone’s back during a balance-on-the-back-of-a-horse trick.
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1960, so I was ten. The chimp’s name was Mister Stubbs.
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I distinctly remember seeing Pippi in the South Seas at the movie theater. However, I just looked it up and it came out in 1970- I was two years old. So now I wonder if I really saw it or just made it up. But no, I really remember seeing it, in a theater.