First movie

[Rustyt1953]

1959. I was 6 years old and mom walked me down to the village square to a matinee showing of Bambi. I remember being excited and taken in by the lights, colors and smells of the lobby. Mom got me a bag of Jelly Babies.

I was dumbstruck by the wide screen. Among the reasons that this stuck with me was how worked up I got when Bambi's mother died and when the forest caught fire. Bambi's father led them all to safety so that ended well. Add to that mom trying to explain what "twitterpation" was and it was a lot for a little kid to absorb.

I have made it a point to have my kids and grandkids see it to share a little piece of me with them. I recently showed it to JR and halfway through he said: " can I watch Lego Bat man?" Oh, well.

Do you remember your first movie?

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Don’t remember exactly which one.
But pretty sure they were riding, shooting and yelling they went that away!

 

[Rustyt1953]

Don’t remember exactly which one.
But pretty sure they were riding, shooting and yelling they went that away!

I've seen that one.

 

[H Richard]

We must be of a similar age as I remember that one from a very early age. I don't recall if it was my 1st, but it was in that vicinity.

 

[doublesharp]

I remember my first one. My mom took me on a bus ride to downtown Louisville to see Lady and the Tramp in one of the classy 4th Street theaters. I was 5 or 6 and it was the grandest place I'd ever been. I'd been to the drive-in but never anyplace like the art deco movie palace.

 

[DeathGrip]

I'm pretty sure it was a Disney too. Maybe Jungle Book.


They used to take me to movies at the drive-in when I was a toddler but I don't remember what they were.

 

[RSBH44]

I remember my first movies being at the drive in with my brother and sisters. Mom insisted at that age that we only see disney films like swiss family Robison and the like. I grew to have a fasination with science fiction so I finally was able to see my first movie in a theater when I was eight. My mom took me and three friends to see the entire Planet of the apes series of movies. Wow, what a blast! We spent the entire day in the theatre watching those movies and chowing down on popcorn, rootbeer and juju beans! My mom was the coolest from then on. Thanks MoM , I’ll never forget that day!

 

[kwselke]

To this day I've never seen Bambi. I can remember seeing lots of movies with family and friends when I was a kid. Several stick out in my mind, but a double feature I saw at third grade age still impresses me. The movies were Dr. No and From Russia With Love. I still think From Russia With Love is the best Bond movie ever, and at my current age I understand innuendo that I did not back then.

 

[nachogrande]

FIRST THEATRE MOVIE.

THE FIRST I remember being brought to was probably the sound of music. The first movies I paid my own way to from "my job" were the Jungle book, Beatles Help/hard days night, west side story, James Bond Dr No/Thunderball. To the best of my recollections.

 

[bulletslap]

The first I remember seeing was “How the West was Won”.

 

[arjay]

^^^ Me too

 

[brjr51]

Don’t laugh, Mary Poppins when I was 4.

 

[Protocall_Design]

I don't know what the movie was, but I remember going to a drive-in with my dad and coming back with my mom...

 

[Golddollar]

I remember being with my dad back in 1959 in Elyria, Ohio, when we stopped to look at the posters for upcoming attractions. Coming to the theater on Christmas Day was the movie version of "Li'l Abner", and I remember that Pop was excited about seeing it. We went together to watch it.
Fast forward to 2006, and the Hanover (Pa.) Little Theatre was putting on a stage production of "Li'l Abner", and I got the part of General Bullmoose. And who was in the audience on opening night? My dad (with my stepmother).

 

[Simson-Suhl]

Showing my age, mine was DUMBO.

 

[Onomea]

Moby Dick! I must have been five or so. I remember cowering under the movie theater seat. Scared the bejabbers outta me! I don’t know what my parents were thinking.

[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l_ibjoSB6Xs[/ame]

 

[Targets Guy]

I don't remember my first one but I enjoyed movies a lot better after they added the sound track.

I do still miss the piano player in the orchestra pit that provided the music for the films.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Moby Dick ranks as one of my favorite literary works and Peck will always be Ahab.

 

[GKC]

I don't know what the movie was, but I remember going to a drive-in with my dad and coming back with my mom...

I had to think about that one for a minute or two...

 

[pawngal]

Either a Ma & Pa Kettle movie or Francis the Talking Mule.

edit I looked up the production dates on those, sorta gives away my age!