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Ghostwriter		#21	[-]
Mar 11 12 7:52 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Though pretty tough to remember the first one with 100% certainty, I'd venture that it was this one (1963 according to IMDB, which would be about right age-wise: Some parts were VERY sad and I remember crying through a good part of it. The first horror-related film I saw in a theater was, almost without doubt, MAD MONSTER PARTY. I started watching monster movies on TV in 1967/1968, first on CHILLER THEATRE on WPIX in NYC, and later on WNEW's CREATURE FEATURES.
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dracsback		#22	[-]
Mar 14 12 6:06 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I think it was 101 DALMATIONS. Or, TO KILL A MOCKINBIRD which are my two earliest memories being in a theater. "I saw what I saw when I saw it!"
Friend of Daniel		#23	[-]
Mar 14 12 9:37 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN, ONE MILLION YEARS B.C., and Disney's THE JUNGLE BOOK are the earliest films I remember seeing at the theater.
bipolarber		#24	[-]
Mar 15 12 4:22 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	perfsol wrote: First memory is at the drive-in in my jim jams and Andy Griffith parachuting to the ground in No Time for Sargeants. I was probably five and I can't remember why it made such an impact. Maybe it frightened me. First in-door theatre was Tommy Kirk turing into the Shaggy Dog, my first manimal experience, probably 5 or 6. Definetely frightened me. What can I say? I was a a bit of a wus. Well, a few weeks after my Dad took the whole family to see "The Love Bug" my older sister took me to see "Old Yeller" with a couple of friends. TRAUMATIZED. FOR. LIFE!!!! I distinctly remember some other kid, in the back of the theatre yelling, "He shot him! He shot the dog!!!!" Jeeze... you'd think we were standing on a street in TX, watching JFK get killed... "[The audiance] will populate the darkness with more horrors than all the horror writers in Hollywood could think of. If you make the screen dark enough, the mind's eye will read anything into it you want! We're great ones for the dark patches." -VAL LEWTON
tomsmonstertoys		#25	[-]
Mar 16 12 10:13 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I went to a five year-olds birthday party in 1966 and the birthday boy's mom took us all to see BILLY THE KID VS DRACULA at a theater. The kids were all bored or crying except me. I remember being fascinated and shocked at the end when he turned into a skeleton. It seemed so gruesome at the time. I also saw 7 FACES OF DR. LAO on the big screen around the same time but I'm not sure which I saw first.
back lot charlie		#26	[-]
Mar 16 12 10:59 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	For some reason, 101 DALMATIONS resonates in my brain, too, but hell, I would have been two. Maybe we caught it a couple of years later at the bargain cinema. I do remember all the mid-sixties films clearly, though. My parents were "movie" nuts...IN COLD BLOOD, MARY POPPINS, COOL HAND LUKE, THE GHOST AND MR. CHICKEN, PLANET OF THE APES...saw and loved them all, all first run in huge old theaters. They are still amongst my favorite movies to this day. IN COLD BLOOD was absolutely terrifying in a dark theater. Last Edited By: back lot charlie Mar 16 12 11:03 AM. Edited 1 times.
cabmangray		#27	[-]
Mar 16 12 11:49 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The earliest movie I can remember seeing in a theatre was DR. NO. I always thought I saw it on it's original 1962 release, but I did some searching in the library's newspaper microfilm files and found it only played in 3 theatres; none of them in my area. So it must have been the 1965 reissue, which would make me 9 years old. I know I must have been to the movies earlier than that, but for the life of me, I can't recall any of them. I too saw the 1966 BATMAN in a drive-in. I thought it was the greatest thing e v e r!! Today I can't even look at it. It's just soooo campy and bad!!
kcor.tylerandjacksmo...		#28	[-]
Apr 22 12 1:33 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I know in reason my family took me to all the Disneys (Mom said Bambi shook me up but I evidently recovered) but that's all a general memory of going to the theatres--one of my favorite parts is that we'd go in and it was still sunny but when we came out it was--magically!--night! My specific and clear memory was my first movie I saw by myself. 1958 tom thumb (Pal). I even knew two of the stars from TV! Alan Young and Terry-Thomas. Very scary when tom is working for the crooks, and I still will occasionally cut a cake donut like a real cake--tom thumb's birthday cake. And my mom actually did serve me a donut for a special auxiliary birthday cake on my next birthday. Which means that was also the first time I got to be the one who told my family what I saw at the movies, which they hadn't seen yet! And moms are great!
Rider		#29	[-]
Apr 27 12 7:24 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Starwars when I was 3.
jazzman412000		#30	[-]
Apr 28 12 6:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	My first movie on the big screen was Lawrence Of Arabia (1962). I was 3 and completely bored out of my mind!! My next movie was a much better experience--Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. The weird thing was that early the next morning we had an unexpected freeze, and when I went outside I found several dead birds in our yard. That was a truly creepy experience!
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Geezermonster		#31	[-]
Apr 30 12 12:23 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Wow! This goes back a few years! The first movie I definitely recall seeing in a theater was probably HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN with Danny Kaye. In odd moments I still hum "Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen". Then I vaguely recall a short film about elephants narrated by Tallullah Bankhead. That ring a bell with anyone? Other early movie experiences include THIS IS CINERAMA narrated by Lowell Thomas, and MOBY DICK (I got upset when Captain Ahab's dead body arose, lashed to the whale, and we had to leave). I also remember my supreme movie experience of my early years -- seeing BEN HUR in the old RKO Albee movie palace in downtown Cincinnati. THAT was a real occasion and I will always remember it!
TheLizard		#32	[-]
Apr 30 12 12:27 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The first movie I remember seeing on the big screen was either Willow, or a re-release of Snow White. I remember the queen's hands gnarling up when she turns into the hag really freaking me out for some reason. I would cover my eyes, but with my mom's hand, because I guess I didn't trust my own hands to do the trick. I think I had already seen it on TV, because I was anticipating the moment that frightened me. I remember there being some gruesome stuff in Willow (for my age), but I most distinctly recall the part with the two-headed dragon. It seemed huge! I can only imagine how I would have reacted to seeing Gorgo, or a Toho film or the like. I was born a couple decades too late to enjoy all that stuff in a theatrical setting. I always felt envy from that.
jazzman412000		#33	[-]
Apr 30 12 12:58 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Geezermonster wrote: "Other early movie experiences include THIS IS CINERAMA narrated by Lowell Thomas..." Wow! I saw that on a documentary included on my 3-disc copy of How The West Was Won. It must have been awesome to see it in the theater! I envy you, sir!
scotpens		#34	[-]
May 8 12 3:02 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I was 9 or 10 when I first went to a movie theater. A friend and I saw The Treasure of Pancho Villa and Beyond the Time Barrier on a double bill at the Encino Theatre (long since gone). A child's admission for the Saturday matinee was 35 cents in 1963. The first feature bored the crap out of me, but I was fascinated by Beyond the Time Barrier (I was already a sci-fi geek). The time-travel plot, the set design with all those inverted pyramids, the triangular iris wipes -- this was cool! And Robert Clarke suddenly appearing in bad old-age makeup at the end was scary stuff.
acker j forestman		#35	[-]
May 10 12 7:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	TARZAN'S FIGHT FOR LIFE (1958) and a reissue of BAMBI. Shortly thereafter saw Joseph Cotten in FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON (1958), and I knew the movie sucked even as a little kid.
Elisabeth		#36	[-]
May 11 12 2:24 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Mine was definitely Walt Disney's SLEEPING BEAUTY, ca '59-'60. I remember, because a new movie theatre opened about 10 minutes from where I lived.. It was my seventh birthday, and I went with my Grandmother. WONDERFUL! "E" Your Signature ... "....I do hope he won't upset Henry..."
TomWeaver999		#37	[-]
May 12 12 4:47 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Mighta been SANDS OF THE KALAHARI (1965) -- but at a drive-in, not a movie house.
FrozenGhost		#38	[-]
May 13 12 7:21 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I remember my parents taking me to one of the local theaters in the late 50s. I thought it was rather strange everyone sitting in front of a wall with giant curtains hanging (yes, this was the Good Old Days when raising the curtains was part of the show.) I finally asked my mom what this was all about. She said it was like watching television only this was on a big screen which intrigued me no end. The movie might have been RODAN.
sthorntn		#39	[-]
May 13 12 10:09 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'm not positive but my first real movie experience might have been one of the Disney live action films, possibly THE SHAGGY DOG or THE ABSENT MNDED PROFESSOR. Regarding movie with a fantastic theme, I have a vivid memory of seeing THE INCREDIBLE MR. LIMPET when it came to town back in 1964.
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