Just because -

[kyburg]

Anything else would be too much today - like wading through War & Peace after reading Moby Dick or the like.

Something cadhla posted today got me thinking - what's the first movie you remember seeing? In the theater, mind. Taken out, sat down and had popcorn put in front of you at the movie theater, movie.

I recall being taken out to see Mary Poppins on opening night - VERY big stuff, we had everything related to the movie release in the house - but I also recall being taken to see Alakazam the Great as a matinee...and I had the soundtrack to go with it.

Summertime, I can recall checking out silent films on 8MM from the library and watching them with the neighbor kids when it was so hot outside we wouldn't dare it. Laurel & Hardy, Charlie Chaplin....

If KTLA had a Japanese monster flick on, we sat around and MSTK'd it. Good times, good times....

What was your first film?

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[western-slope.livejournal.com]

I think it was Snow White. (We saw all of the Disney movies around the same time when I was quite small: Peter Pan, Pinochio, Sleeping Beauty, Dumbo.)

Some of my earliest memories are from my parents taking my sibs and I to the drive-in. We'd pile into the station wagon and go to the Rosecrans theater. I remember seeing the old Matt Helm movies with Dean Martin. (My Mum was a big Dean Martin fan.) We'd also see science fiction and action flicks.

My five-year-old brain found the original Thomas Crown Affair with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway to be boring.