First film i saw, Davy Crockett, starring Fess Parker. I was just a liddly. I looked up a that giant screen, and thought, in the terms familiar to a toddler: "Damn, that boy is BIG!"
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
The first time they showed The Wizard of Oz on television was 1956. My aunt was letting us watch it, but then she said, "I've had all I can stand." And she switched it to something else. It was the time when Disneyland was still a new program. The same aunt said, "I can see why they call it Dizzyland."
The Neverending Story, I think.
Either that or "Joep Meloen". My mother so hated us for having to go there ;-)
The first movie I saw in a theater was "To Sir With Love".
I do remember seeing "The Diary of Anne Frank" in fits and starts when it was on TV. It came on way past my bedtime so I snuck onto the stairs where I could watch.
My most watched movie ever was "Jason and the Argonauts". Remember that skeleton scene!?
Shivers.
Popeye with Robin Williams. I was only about 3 or 4 but I still remember the scene with the giant octopus. Scared the crap out of me that did.
I recall my daughter's concerned expression when Sweepea went under water and took so long to come up. (Popeye)
I remember Bambi being ONE of the first films I saw in a theater but, you know the first was Dumbo-Im almost certain...and the first one I saw in a theater that I remember clearly and completely was Pete's Dragon.
I spent many a night in the back of the station wagon at the drive in though..so who really knows.
I was also a child of the TV age so, thats also a possibility of a first movie. And if that true and knowing my parents...my first movie views were either Elvis or James Bond.
The first movie I rember seeing in a movie theater was the original 101 Dalmations. It came out in 1961.
Doh!
My earliest memories are of the Johnny Weismuller "Tarzan" films, which were on TV every Saturday morning when I was a small fry in the 50s. I thought Johnny was the greatest star ever.
First drive-in film I recall seeing was Elvis Pressley in "King Creole". My parents were of an earlier generation but wanted to see what all the fuss was about.
They thought he was a pretty fair actor, but never did get into the music. I mostly just slept through it, being four years old at the time. (My pop music awakening had to wait for the Beatles).
was a James Arness Sci-Fi flick about giant Ants, I think it was called THEM
I've always regretted the setup my mother and aunt had when we were kids. My parents were separated, my aunt and her man weren't together so we ended up, my mother and her three kids and my aunt and her two daughters, all living together in a big apartment in Hyde Park in Chicago. It was the late 50's, early 60's, and my aunt would take my two brothers and older cousin to the movies while my mother kept me and my younger cousin at home. My brothers and cousin saw all of the Disney movies plus many more like Jason and the Argonauts and especially Spartacus (they sat through it twice to see the chariot race again!). I've always been envious of that, not seeing Cinderella or Snow White until I was an adult and rented the videos.
The first movie I saw without my parents was THE LAST OF THE REDSKINS (U.S.A. title THE LAST OF THE REDMEN).
Bought it a couple of years ago from Amazon on vhs.
Realise now it didnt take much to entertain us kids in those days, it`s awful.
The first I can recall is Snow White. There were almost earlier films, but I can't recall which. My grandmother was a romantic and was ga-ga over the likes of Fred Astaire and Gene Autry. She took me to see these guys before I was old enough to know what the stories were about. Oh, yes, and Bing Crosby. Don't ask what the names of the movies were.
dyslexia wrote:was a James Arness Sci-Fi flick about giant Ants, I think it was called THEM
I think you`re confusing James Arness with James Whitmore in THEM, dyslexia.
James Arness, was the original "THING" in the original "THE THING FROM OUTER SPACE.
I prefer this version to the Kurt Russell remake.
Sound of Music definitely...then the Good the bad and the ugly....no wonder i am so screwed...
I saw "The Third Man" at a drive-in when I was six. I was probably too young to understand the plot, but the shadows and especially the zither music haunted me all my life.
Hey, kaylee. Welcome to A2K. You are absolutely correct. The Thing was far better than the Kurt Russell remake.
Hmmmm. The first movie that I can remember. Can't remember!
i'd have to check with the parental units, but it might have been "andromeda strain", at a drive-in on long island. pretty heady stuff for a 6-year old...
Either Superman or Starwars. I was a little tike then.
