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Author Topic: First film you saw at the cinema? Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 09-13-2008 06:58 PM                     I've got vivid memories of my first theatre experiences. The first time I can remember was the 1986 re issue of Song of the South. It was at a Plitt somewhere in the Salt Lake City area. They had red velvet ropes, and the auditorium had yellow and red on the walls. Other early movie theatre memories: Land Before Time (Edwards San Marcos) Honey I shrunk the Kids (Edwards San Marcos) All Dogs go to Heaven (Edwards Vineyard Twin) Big (Edwards Vineyard Twin) Roger Rabbit (SLC area Mann on Redwood near the Letherby's) I remember the Vineyard Twin had two front speakers suspended from the ceiling on the left and right of the screen.  |  IP: Logged Bob Koch Expert Film Handler Posts: 183 From: williams ca Registered: Nov 2001 posted 09-13-2008 07:03 PM                     There seem to be somewhat of a generation gap here. I saw my first movie at the Campus Theatre in Berkeley Ca. I was six and the movie was "The Singing Fool" with Al Jolson.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 09-13-2008 09:55 PM                     quote: Mike Olpin It was at a Plitt somewhere in the Salt Lake City area. Regency..up on the hill overlooking SLC, or any of the Trolleys - Carriage, North, Corners..? quote: Mike Olpin Roger Rabbit (SLC area Mann on Redwood near the Letherby's) at MANN 6 at 5400 S. and Redwood Road. Opened in 1980 as one of the new MANN's in the SLC area. Had Drive-In platters with Indian Centurys hanging on the front of Xetron X-35 consoles .. still there, now a discount house ran by Red Carpet Cinemas. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Robert E. Allen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1078 From: Checotah, Oklahoma Registered: Jul 2002 posted 09-13-2008 10:57 PM                     Good grief Sally! That was back in the '30s for me and these days I'm having trouble remembering last week. One of the earliest films I DO remember was "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" with Peggy Ann Garner. I had a crush on her when I was a young teen.  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 09-13-2008 11:02 PM                     Based on the pictures at Cinema Tour, I don't think it was any of the trolleys. I do remember driving by the trolley corners regularly since it was on the way to the doctors office where my Mom worked at the time. At that young age I thought their marquee was really strange looking. The Plitt I remember seeing Song of the South at was a freestanding all brick building. We were living in West Jordan at the time. I'm sure it was a plitt because their sunburst logo was very identifiable. Since the Mann on Redwood is still open, Someone needs to go take pictures! Quick, Hurry! (And please report on whether Leatherby's is still there!)  |  IP: Logged Wayne Keyser Master Film Handler Posts: 272 From: Arlington, Virginia, USA Registered: May 2004 posted 09-14-2008 02:05 AM                     Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, at a movie palace in downtown Washington DC. I was 5 years old. It fired my imagination ever since, I've never lost the sense of amazement and awe.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 09-14-2008 02:16 AM                  "Deep Throat" when I was 19 confirmed my interest in film. I really don't remember the 1st films I saw as a youngin'. My parents used to take my sisters and me to the Walake drive-in on weekends for "family" films. When I got older, (about 10) I went to the Lake (a hardtop) theater in Walled Lake MI (long now demolished after converted to a bowling alley and then a church) with my buddy-pals and vividly remember being scared sh!tless from many films such as "Invaders From Mars", "Earth vs. The Flying Saucers", and many others. I wouldn't trade those precious times for anything.  |  IP: Logged Christian Appelt Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 505 From: Frankfurt, Germany Registered: Dec 2001 posted 09-14-2008 09:57 AM                     I remember two films but cannot say which one came first: Walt Disney's ROBIN HOOD (1973) IL CORSARIO NERO (1971, aka BLACKIE THE PIRATE aka FREIBEUTER DER MEERE, dir. Lorenzo Gicca Palli) an Italian pirate movie starring Terence Hill and Bud Spencer - not to be confused with IL CORSARIO NERO (1976) starring Mel Ferrer and Kabir Bedi. Both seen at the Frankfurt MGM Theatre on the 64 ft. curved screen installed for single film Cinerama in 1968. Once the projectionist opened the masking to show me the original Ultra Panavision width - unfortunately I never saw an UP movie in that theatre. Theatre closed in 2003, was torn down this year. The third film must have been a mid-seventies rerelease of FANTASIA in the 1969 (?) 4-track mag sound version.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 09-14-2008 10:23 AM                       quote: Richard Fowler The Wild One with Marlon Brando quote: Phil Hill "Earth vs. The Flying Saucers" Ahh, that's why you guys are so cool!  |  IP: Logged Dick Prather Master Film Handler Posts: 259 From: Portland, OR, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 09-14-2008 03:01 PM                     Sometime in 1951 my mom took me with some of her friends to the St. Johns theatre in Portland. We sat in the cry room. The movie was "St. Benny the Dip". I didn't remember a thing about the movie but I kept asking her why the the bright light came out of one hole and later another when I looked to the back of the theater. I was 5 years old and must have told myself to find out someday. That happened in high school 10 years later when I became a full time projectionist at my local theatre. The light doesn't switch holes much anymore but it sure was magic when it did. Dick  |  IP: Logged Caleb Johnstone-Cowan Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 593 From: London, UK Registered: Mar 2006 posted 09-14-2008 03:55 PM                     Ghostbusters II for me, would have been three or just four. I only really remember the Bobby Brown soundtrack and the bit with the Statue of Liberty! Was at the then-Cannon Ealing, was pretty nasty back in the 80's until they refurbed. It shut last week, they let it turn into a pit again and we're supposedly getting a 12-screener on the same site. The comments about noticing the light/projectors are interesting, sparked a memory of my next cinema visit which would have been The Little Mermaid. When Ursula turns massive for the final battle I was seriously scared and ended up turning around from the screen and remember seeing the light.  |  IP: Logged Cameron Glendinning Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 845 From: West Ryde, Sydney, NSW Australia Registered: Dec 2005 posted 09-14-2008 05:16 PM                     My earliest memory of a trip to the cinema is "Picnic at Hanging Rock" at the original Cremorne Orpheum and then "Jaws" @ Hoyts entertainment centre when I was about 5, ( I was the youngest by 5 years of 3 brothers ) I also remember the nightmares! My strongest movie memories are of James Bond double features ect at the Drive In, playing in the playground under the screen at Frenches Forest.  |  IP: Logged Joshua Waaland Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: Cleveland, Ohio Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-14-2008 09:33 PM                     For me it was when I was probably close to ten years old. I went with my brother to see one of the Police Academy movies. My parents were ultra religious and legalistic and they believed that Hollywood stood for all that was wrong with the world. For a while we didn't even have a tv! The theater was a three screen in the Sandusky mall and later the same company built an eight screen behind the mall. The funny thing is that I ended up as a projectionist at that eight screen just a few short years later after my parents divorced. Go figure. Must have been my rebelliousness coming through in a passive aggressive sort of way.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 09-14-2008 09:59 PM                        My earliest movie memory is vaguely recalling my parents taking us to see one of the late-50s Hollywood biblical epics. Not sure now which one. Most like it was a roadshow engagement in LA or Hollywood, which would have been quite a long trek for us at the time. I remember being very impressed by the "show", if not the movie itself.  |  IP: Logged Robert Crabtree Film Handler Posts: 91 From: Largo, FL Registered: May 2008 posted 09-14-2008 10:22 PM                     My earliest memories at a theatre are for Hook, and some Sesame Street movie that was part of old Cobb's summer kid shows. But earliest CLEAR memory is The Lion King- my family had shown up well before the previous show got out, and I remember waiting for what seemed forever to get in for our matinee show.  |  IP: Logged

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