# What Was The 1st Movie You Were Taken To See? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 29, 2000, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214 "2000-08-29T17:38:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JosephFinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@JosephFinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JosephFinn)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/1 "2000-08-29T17:38:35Z")
Just wondering. My first, and I freely admit my memory might be screwy here, was “Airplane,” when my family was on vaction in Kentucky. It was in the theater (damn, do I have good parents), and I remember thinking it was funny, but I obviously didn’t start to get all the jokes until later (for instance, the “From Here to Eternity” joke flew right over my head). I seem to remember the second was a double bill of “The Muppet Movie” and “Star Wars.” Please feel free to correct me if sequence of release makes my memories impossible (yes, I know SW came out in 1977 - I’m sure it was a second or third run). ---
**Author:** ![magdalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/2 "2000-08-29T17:40:27Z")
Lady and the Tramp. It’s had obvious effects on my psyche. ---
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/3 "2000-08-29T17:41:05Z")
JAWS, and it scared the life out of me at 6 years old. And go figure, the second movie I got to see was Poltregiest. :rolleeyes: ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/4 "2000-08-29T17:44:03Z")
The first one I can remember was “Jungle Book” (the Disney cartoon version.) Soulsling: Jaws?! Did your parents have it in for you or something? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/5 "2000-08-29T17:55:25Z")
Easy. Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown! In a drive through. In a Pinto Wagon. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/6 "2000-08-29T18:13:07Z")
Make that a drive-IN. ---
**Author:** ![Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trout_Mask_Replica)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/7 "2000-08-29T18:20:36Z")
I have confused memories of being taken to see _Star Wars_, but the first movie I definitely remember was _Return of the Jedi_. ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/8 "2000-08-29T18:23:44Z")
Oliver! when I was 5 or six years old. Talk about the wrong movie to take a kid to, I was interested for the first 5 or 6 minutes and then I just sort of …drifted away for the rest of the move. It is one of the strongest memories I have of my youth. Of course, when I was in high school, I was in the drama club and we did a production of Oliver!. It had improved a lot since I was six. 😉 Keith ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/9 "2000-08-29T18:24:24Z")
The original _Benji_. **soulsling** and I must be close to the same age, because I was about 6 when my parents offerred to take me to see _Jaws_. I am proud of the fact that I replied, “No, that will be too scary for me.” My parents still tell that story. :o ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/10 "2000-08-29T18:31:21Z")
“The Absent-Minded Professor” (1961) is the first movie I REMEMBER seeing in a theater. But I was also planted firmly in front of the old black-and-white teevee from the moment I could sit up . . . ---
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/11 "2000-08-29T18:35:38Z")
It was the 3-D Jaws, so it may have been that my parents thought it was cool, but yes, they had it in for me anyway. And I was probably older, maybe 7 even. I don’t remember the year exactly. It was 3D, and it was all the hype, and some other kid in class saw it, and he said he didn’t want to ever see it again. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/12 "2000-08-29T18:39:26Z")
Let’s see… first one I remember seeing… probably Snow White or maybe Fantasia. First non-cartoon? Star Wars. Opening Day 1976. I was all of 4 years old, and my dad took the day off work to take me. We got buttons which read “May the Force be With You.” on the way into the theater. Very cool stuff for a 4 year old! ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/13 "2000-08-29T18:43:32Z")
The first movie I can remember being brought to was _ **Bedknobs and Broomsticks** _. A little flik I highly recommend. I’ve seen a few times since then and I always sit rapt. Another first I remember - first drive-in movie. My parents brought my sister and I to see _ **Young Frankenstein** _. ---
**Author:** ![lolagranola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/14 "2000-08-29T18:46:30Z")
Bambi. I was four. During the fire scene, I thought the theatre was on fire. After that would have been The Rescuers and Star Wars (I can’t remember which order). I was around 5 or 6. ---
**Author:** ![tygre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@tygre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tygre)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/15 "2000-08-29T18:48:52Z")
“The Black Hole” was the first movie I was taken to as a kid. My dad had a profound dislike of movie theaters for some reason, so we only went about once a year. Usually we saw sci-fi flicks. My hubby took child #1 to see Toy Story 2 this spring and the little guy loved it, and was well behaved to boot. –tygre ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/16 "2000-08-29T18:52:59Z")
‘Mary Poppins’ was my first. Still one of my favorites. I did see all the Benji movies too. Cried when they kicked his girlfriend. Bastards… ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/17 "2000-08-29T18:53:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by soulsling \* > It was the 3-D Jaws That, of course, changes everything. _Jaws 3-D_, though, was what my GF and I paid to see for our first mutual experience of during-the-movie petting. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/18 "2000-08-29T18:56:09Z")
Star Wars. And bringing me to see it bankrupted my parents. I still have all of those action figures and spaceships somewhere… ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/19 "2000-08-29T19:07:02Z")
I must be older than the rest of you (_Star Wars_? **_Jaws 3-D_?!?!** ), though I think **Eve** is closer to my age(_Absent-Minded Professor_). Anyway, the first one I clearly remember seeing at the theater was _Bonnie & Clyde_. And the main reason we saw it is because parts of the movie were filmed in Dallas and some nearby small towns (including Wilmer, where we lived) and we wanted to see our town on the big screen. (The Dallas area was where B&C did most of their bank-robbing. The filmmakers were striving for authenticity. Also, in the early 60’s, most of the towns still look the way they did in the 30s. Still do, in fact.) I’m sure my parents took me to the movies before that, but I just don’t remember it. (Probably fell asleep.) I have vague memories of seeing various Disney pictures, but nothing reliable. We saw most of these movies at the drive-in. The first movie I saw with my parents at an indoor theater was _Patton._ ---
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214/20 "2000-08-29T19:34:46Z")
The first movie I REMEMBER being taken to see, was at a drive in theater and a double bill…circa 1972-74 I was 2-4 yrs old. Godzilla vs the Smog Monster The Golden Voyage of Sinbad [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-1st-movie-you-were-taken-to-see/31214.md?page=2)