What's the first movie you ever remember seeing, and do you remember any details about the circumstances?

My parents used to go to the drive-in a lot when I was growing up, and I guess my dad liked adventures, so that's what we usually watched. I remember seeing "The Magic Sword" and a double bill of the reissued "The Vikings" and "The Tartars" at the Compton Drive-In in 1962 when I was six, but at least one memory has that beat. We saw the John Wayne "The Alamo" at the same place in late 1960 or early 1961 before I started school. I remember they had an intermission, so I got to get out of our bronze Impala with my mom and go down close to the screen to play on the merry-go-round and slides in the sand.

The first movie I remember seeing out of the house away from the drive-in was at my school, Stephen C. Foster Elementary. They would show a movie after school in the auditorium on some Fridays, and ten cents got you a bag of popcorn and a seat on the floor. The first film I remember seeing there was "The Red Balloon" in first grade.

The first movie I remember seeing at a walk-in theatre was "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" at the Crest Theatre in Long Beach in 1965 with some friends and their mom.

The first movie I remember watching on TV was....shut up, boring mark!

Hey, don't strain yourself, but try to remember the first. If you can't remember, share one of the first or something memorable.

I'm pretty sure the first movie I ever saw in the theater was "Mary Poppins", although I think we came in late and left early.

Since I didn't see too many movies at such a young age, I'm pretty sure the next three movies I saw were "Dr. Doolittle" (the original one with Rex Harrison), "Swiss Family Robinson", and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".

I think my first was "Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo"... Shortly thereafter, I think I saw some toher kids movie before sneaking into "The Cannonball Run." That was damned funny....

The first movie I ever saw in theaters was "Aladdin."

It was either Jason and the Argonauts, or possibly The Goonies. I have only the fondest memories of both.

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Originally posted by kraftdeluxe:
The first movie I ever saw in theaters was "Aladdin."

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Hey! Same here! The first film I saw in cinemas was Aladdin, I loved it!
Then of course my Jim Carrey obsession kicked in...(Dumb and dumber, Mask etc...)

My first move that I can remember going to see is 'Return of the Jedi' Sweet Jesus! If they could all be that fun now!

My first movie ever was "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" at four years old. Funny how I remmeber it perfectly. We sang "Hi-Ho" all the way home. When I was slightly older (5 maybe) my dad became a film critic and took me to such children's classics as "Spawn" "Armageddon" and "Starship Troopers" <---my first R rated film. As awful as these films were they remain childhood favorites.

Flesh Gordon if you can believe that!

"Flesh" Gordon? Geez - my first was The Cat from Outer Space!

Ghostbusters

I remember being scared by the library scene at the beginning and not understanding all the witty banter between Ramis, Akroyd, and Murray. Slimer was cool.

We came, we saw, we kicked its ASS!

I remember seeing "The Birds" with my parents one night. Afterwards, we walked down the street to a Dog'N'Suds and I had a hotdog and a root beer. I can remember that from 1963 but not where I left my car keys an hour ago. Must have birds in my belfry.

I also remember seeing "It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World" at a drive-in theatre with my parents and brothers in our Dodge station wagon. I'd sure like to have that staion wagon in working shape today- and a Dog'N'Suds nearby.

My first recollection of seeing a movie was "This is Cinerama" at The Villa Theatre, at that time is was a new 75 mm letterbox wide-angle version shot onto three different movie panels. The movie must of have been recycled from its original showing in 1952 when The Villa opened in the late 50s or early 60s in Salt Lake City, Utah. My first experience of a movie was awesome in part because it was more of a experiential movie with little plot but big on sight and sounds, especially the rollercoaster ride, that made one dizzying with actually feeling of being there on the rollercoaster. Oddly enough almost 40 years later the letterbox movie screen is coming back to the small screen.

The first movie I really remember seeing in the theater was E.T. I was either 5 or just about to turn 5. I saw it with my mom. My mom still tells the story of how she could see I wanted to cry but was holding it in, and when she told me it was ok to cry and I lost it!

My first movie was The Lion King! That movie rocked, then I think it was the Mask!

Besides all the disney movies that pretty much every kid sees, the first one i really remember was E.T. I'd always feel sad when the government people are trying to take him away.

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I vividly remember "To Sir with Love." The theme song by Lulu was also the first song from a movie that I can recall. The movie had a strong statement about the equality of the races and its most memorable moment had Sidney Portier (sp?)as teacher, examining a cut on his hand. One of the white classroom rebels sneered, "Look,it's blood!" For a young, impressionable boy, that was a powerful scene.

GETTING IT OFF: one of the first movies..50 years ago....
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In April 1937 Vivien Leigh, one of the most popular actresses of the 20th century, had been in a rapturous sexual relationship1 with Laurence Olivier for nearly two years. At the time both of them were married to someone else. Olivier was a major actor-interpreter of Shakespeare for his time. Leigh had just begun her acting career. In April 1937 the Baha’i teaching Plan opened. Leigh moved in with Olivier 8 weeks later. And so began one of the famous romances of the twentieth century. Leigh had the intuition, some time in May of 1937, after reading Gone With the Wind which had won the Pulitzer Prize that year, that she would play the part of Scarlett O’Hara in the movie Gone With the Wind. And so she did: on Christmas Day 1938 she was offered a contract for the part. And so began her life of Hollywood fame.

In 1932 Vivien Leigh had married. She was not yet 19. That year, the Greatest Holy Leaf, the sister of Baha’u’llah, died. She was, it could be said, the last treasured remnant of the Heroic Age. Shoghi Effendi referred to her as “the treasured Remnant of Baha’u’llah.”2 The Heroic Age had drawn to a close and, with 1932, its last remnant was laid to rest on Mt. Carmel. Nabil’s Dawnbreakers was also published that year. That great Heroic Age had, indeed, ‘gone with the wind.’

Now readers may wonder at the connection I make between the two: the movie and the religion. I first saw the film in about 1953, the same year I first heard of the Baha'i Faith. I make the connection because it is meaningful to me. The film and the religion go hand in hand. Those for whom the connection has no meaning are advised to simply move on--as we so often do with stuff we read. You might like to try the following poem on. It's a poem that tries to do what we all do: integrate our own lives with stuff in the movies.–Ron Price with appreciation to 1Michael Sauter, “Love Lives-Laurence Olivier & Vivien Leigh,” Internet Site, 2005; and 2Shoghi Effendi, Letter From Shoghi Effendi, July 17th 1932.
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They had absolutely no idea
that a holy enterprise had also
got off, one whose uninterrupted
prosecution would attract
unimaginable blessings and entail
far-reaching consequences.

The 25th anniversary1 of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s
visit to America was not commemorated
by these two famous lovers in 1937
as the Heroic Age inevitably slipped
into history’s abyss, gone-with-the-wind:
as a star-studded historical cinema epic,
the highest grossing film in Hollywood history,
with its record-breaking number
of Academy Awards was about to
translate a 1000 page Pulitzer
Prize winning novel into the most
expensive film(with 2400 extras) produced.2

The American Baha’is in that same month
embarked on a sublime historic mission
which would release the potentialities
they had been so mysteriously endowed.

1 1912-1937
2 Gone With The Wind cost 4 million dollars to produce, a record-breaking sum.

Ron Price
October 2nd 2005
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