Almost forgot: the scene from Melies’ Voyage to the Moon where the ship crashes into the eye of the Man in the Moon at the beginning of the Disney tv program Man in Space.
Same here except I first saw it in the Smashing Pumpkins video for “Tonight, Tonight.” Okay, not really kiddie. Teenagery?
When I was little, there was in the living room a little slip-cased set of soft-cover art history books from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I used to pore over those books, so I was familiar with a lot of works of art before I really had any idea that there were great masterpieces. I just thought they were purty pictures!
The first time I ever saw Alice Cooper, was when he appeared on The Muppet Show.
I saw Alistaire Cookie host Monsterpiece Theater, long before I ever saw Alistaire Cooke host Masterpiece Theater.
I saw caricatures of Peter Lorre in Warner Brothers cartoons, long before I ever saw the real man in the original movies.
I saw Arte Johnson’s parody of Dwight Frie in Love at First Bite, long before I ever saw Dracula.