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

Something [livejournal.com profile] 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?

Date: 2007-03-15 07:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] n6vfp.livejournal.com
The most memorable film had to be "The Creature From The Black Lagoon". I had nightmares for weeks after that. I also saw Pinnichio and Fantasia when they first were released coutesy of our local postmaster and theater owner Chandler Bunker.

Date: 2007-03-15 08:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] feyandstrange.livejournal.com
I'm told I was taken to some Disney films as a baby, but my memories are hazy. My first memory of seeing a movie is Star Wars, because it was a Big Deal. I was in Brussels, and children weren't allowed to see PG rated movies at all - but there was some kind of special showing. I was three or four. And I think it was dubbed in French, although being bilingual at that age I was never quite sure, but I do remember that Darth Vader was a tenor, and thus I was very surprised by James Earl Jones when I finally heard him.

Date: 2007-03-15 08:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dame-of-dames.livejournal.com
I remember seeing the 1974 cartoon version of "Charlotte's Web" in the theater with the rest of my pre-school class.

But I also remember a cartoon Wizard of Oz story and a live action Repunzul movie. Also by going on a class trip to a theater.

If you're talking family outings, then I think we're talkin' Star Wars here. :-)

Date: 2007-03-15 08:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2007-03-16 12:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nsingman.livejournal.com
The first movie I remember seeing in a theater was Goldfinger (my parents are huge Sean Connery fans, as am I).

The last movie I saw (and will likely ever see) in a theater was Spider-Man 2. :-)

Date: 2007-03-16 12:56 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] hobbitblue.livejournal.com
It was either Bambi or Peter Pan.. I remember we took my best friend Gillian along to Peter Pan, and I can only have been 4 or 5, don't remember any before then (would have been 76 or 77). It was the biggest of the three cinemas at the local place in Wigan, with lots of steps up to the door and then lots down and high tiered seats more like a theatre than a cinema, and dad and mum both were there.. didn't have popcorn, might have had a hotdog, very exotic stuff when you're 5 :)

(The first film I ever ever watched, apperantly, was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang when I was 3 and just sat transfixed in front of the tv for the whole thing without wandering off or getting bored...)

Date: 2007-03-16 01:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] foogod.livejournal.com
I can distinctly remember sitting in the great dome theater in Pleasant Hill, surrounded by my family and lots of other people, feeling the rumble and watching the truly intimidating sight of the underside of an Imperial star destroyer over my head chasing down a small, white, rebel blockade runner.

All of the rest is rather hazy, but those first few moments are imprinted indelibly on my brain. I still think that's one of the best opening shots of any science fiction movie before or since.

Date: 2007-03-16 10:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-paulr.livejournal.com
The first one I remember was the original Dr. Doolittle at Grauman's Chinese Theater.

And I remember either channel 9 or channel 13 in L.A. showing not only Japapnese monster movies in the 70's, but whole series of classics like the Ma & Pa Kettle movies.

Date: 2007-03-16 10:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moropus.livejournal.com
Dumbo.

And I MSTK anything I see that needs it. I've been doing this so long, it's hard not to do it.

Date: 2007-03-16 04:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] smilenfrown.livejournal.com
"Grease" was the first movie I remember going to in the theatre and actually sitting through and being mesmerized by... Seems like a cheesy movie when I watch in now, but back then I LOVED it. I also had the record album and played it over and over and constantly stared at the photos on the inside of the cover.

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