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Author Topic: First film you saw at the cinema? Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 09-13-2008 07:58 AM                     The Wild One with Marlon Brando (1953)....Oklahoma in Todd AO 70mm (1955)....  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 09-13-2008 08:24 AM                     Yup, pretty sure it was Bambi for me as well. But I do have a strong recollection of seeing "Hellfighters" (1968) in the theater. My dad is a big John Wayne fan, and I suppose there were no babysitters available. I was 4 at the time, and that must have ignited my appreciation for Elmer Bernstein's music.  |  IP: Logged Jeff Stricker Master Film Handler Posts: 481 From: Calumet, Mi USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 09-13-2008 08:52 AM                     Don, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea was one of my earlier recollections. I was 7 in 1954, too. But I can remember going to films with my parents in the early 1950's. Some of the cartoons made an impression on me including Disney's "Willie The Operatic Whale". That cartoon scared the daylights out of me!  |  IP: Logged John Lasher Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Newark, DE Registered: Aug 2001 posted 09-13-2008 09:01 AM                        Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at age 2 This was back when Disney was still swearing they would never release it on . [edit] The theater I saw this, and many other Disney re-releases at, burned down several years ago and wouldn't you know it, the former management of that theater runs one of the two I frequent now! [ 09-16-2008, 06:31 PM: Message edited by: John Lasher ]  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-13-2008 09:45 AM                     At the ripe old age of 3....Walt Disney's The Jungle Book Steve  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-13-2008 09:58 AM                     For me it was "Wonderful World Of The Brothers Grimm" at the Glen Theater. That began my obsession with the Cinerama join lines and why things bent when they whent through them... I was to find out what they actually were and why much later in life. I was probably about 5 at the time I saw it. Mark  |  IP: Logged Jim Bedford Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 597 From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer) Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-13-2008 10:06 AM                        Although I probably went to the movies before, KING KONG's re-release in Nyack, NY in 1952 was my first indelible movie memory. I was 7 and my grandparents let me go by myself. I don't think they had a clue. Changed the way I saw the world.  |  IP: Logged Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 09-13-2008 10:29 AM                     "Bambi" I was 4 or 5 and remember sitting in a balcony near a door, which must have been the booth. I have no idea which theater, but the long dormant Tivoli in DC has that kind of layout. It is also close to where I lived at the time.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 09-13-2008 10:44 AM                       quote: Stephen Furley I remember being really impressed by the mercury rectifiers. That was a major attraction for me, too, in my early booth visits.  |  IP: Logged Jennifer Pan THE JEN! Posts: 1219 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: Nov 2003 posted 09-13-2008 10:49 AM                        Titanic (1997)  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 09-13-2008 11:38 AM                     At the now-gone STARLITE DRIVE-IN in Asheville, NC: Inside Daisy Clover Horror of Dracula I was about 4 at the time, also. From then on, I went to the hard-top movies every saturday morning until around 1971, when I discovered cars, and a renewed interest in the drive-in theatres  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 09-13-2008 11:55 AM                     My parents took my brother and I along to drive-in theaters when we were just infants. I didn't start actually paying attention to the movies until about Kindergarten age. One of the earliest ones I remember: Fritz the Cat. I'm not kidding. My father was stationed at the Camp LeJune, North Carolina Marine Corps base. A couple drive-in theaters in the Jacksonville area showed a lot of objectionable content. When we first moved to Jacksonville we had to stay and wait for a base housing opening in a small hotel next door to a drive-in that showed porn. My father and one of his Marine buddies, artist John Hull, enjoyed drinking a few beers and watching the show from the hotel's back yard. One of the first movies I remember watching from beginning to end was Westworld. I saw the movie at a little indoor theater in Burkburnett, TX. That must have been around 1974. I think I was in first grade at the time.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 09-13-2008 12:14 PM                        This is Cinerama at the Capitol(?) but for sure in Chicago. ( all of the later ones in Cincinnati and Louisville.) Louis  |  IP: Logged Benny Walters Film Handler Posts: 41 From: Columbus, OH USA Registered: Jul 2008 posted 09-13-2008 12:55 PM                     Carebears: The Movie  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 09-13-2008 01:59 PM                     "Monkeys Go Home", 1966, Walt Disney, Corral Drive-in, Lubbock, age 4.  |  IP: Logged

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