We used to get taken to drive-in movies with my parents fairly often to see Smokey and The Bandit-type movies, but we were usually asleep before the end of the opening credits. I can also remember seeing The Bad News Bears in the theatre, which my dad was led to believe was a straight-up baseball movie...not a pile of semi-racist / inappropriate jokes masquerading as a baseball movie. And we saw a remounting of that Seven Voyages of Sinbad movie with the stop-motion skeleton sword fight, which scared the shit out of me then and sort of haunts me still.
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Originally posted by elguapo4 View PostPretty sure it was "snow white and the seven dwarves " I remember it being a big adventure to go to the pictures. As I previously mentioned on a different thread having to be removed from the cinema during "chitty chitty bang bang " due to a less than favourable response to the arrival of the child catcher and a woman telling my sister to "shut that child up he's laughing too loud " during "the love bug" were other early experiences.
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My second visit to the pictures was to see "Jaws", either in 1975 or 1976. My parents had just had a row and my mother, probably to piss my father off, decided she should pay for her children to see Robert Shaw being bitten in half. God knows why the cinema people let her in with two primary-school kids.
The third film I saw at the flicks was the first Remake of King Kong, on Boxing Day 1976.
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The first one I can specifically remember was Star Wars (Garden Theater, Allen St, State College - it's now a Citizens Bank branch, right across the street from another bank) but I know that wasn't the first one I ever saw. I feel like maybe Disney's Cinderella may have been the first. I remember seeing that in the theater or remember remember seeing that in the theater. That was released in 1950, but in those days (the 70s) Disney would sometimes re-release their classics in theaters because there was no VHS market yet.
They (I think it was NBC) sometimes showed those on the Wonderful World of Disney on Sunday night, but usually not. I recall always hoping every Sunday that they'd show an animated film, but usually it was a western with a lot of earth tones or a nature documentary or something with Dean Jones, all of which I found boring at that age. But the animated films were like pure magic, if for no other reason than the animation was 1000x better than what we were seeing on most contemporary Saturday Morning Cartoons like SuperFriends, Scooby Doo, etc.Last edited by Hot Pepsi; 06-11-2018, 17:41.
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Originally posted by treibeis View PostMy second visit to the pictures was to see "Jaws", either in 1975 or 1976. My parents had just had a row and my mother, probably to piss my father off, decided she should pay for her children to see Robert Shaw being bitten in half. God knows why the cinema people let her in with two primary-school kids.
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I've mentioned before that my sister used to work in the Hillhead Salon (Glasgow), and babysat me, so I saw Cabaret and Jesus Christ Superstar on their release, there. So I would have been about 7?
But the first cinema visits I remember involved Saturday mornings at Anniesland Odeon (Glasgow) c1970 to see a package thing with a serial (Flash Gordon, I think), some cartoons, and I think Laurel and Hardy.
The first thing I ever paid to see was The Empire Strikes Back which I watched 3 times in a row.
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Originally posted by treibeis View PostMy second visit to the pictures was to see "Jaws", either in 1975 or 1976. My parents had just had a row and my mother, probably to piss my father off, decided she should pay for her children to see Robert Shaw being bitten in half. God knows why the cinema people let her in with two primary-school kids.
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Originally posted by Lang Spoon View PostPete’s Dragon is maybe the first one I remember.
Edit: the book thing would make '78/79 more likely, LS.
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"The Tales of Beatrix Potter" at the Regal in Dovercourt, about 1972, aged five.
My mum took me and my two sisters - she didn't realise it was a ballet. Probably my earliest emotional memory is crying because I was so bored and so disappointed
The next one I clearly remember is Monty Python and the Holy Grail, on holiday in Scotland (possibly Balmoral). It wasn't even a proper cinema, just a room above a library. I was only 8 so not sure how much I understood but I loved it
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I just had to check the release dates of both films in the UK, but the first I saw was Jurassic Park, followed by Aladdin.
I don't think I've seen Jurassic Park since, but I watch Aladdin every now and then as it is, by far, my favourite Disney film.
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostThey (I think it was NBC) sometimes showed those on the Wonderful World of Disney on Sunday night, but usually not. I recall always hoping every Sunday that they'd show an animated film, but usually it was a western with a lot of earth tones or a nature documentary or something with Dean Jones, all of which I found boring at that age. But the animated films were like pure magic, if for no other reason than the animation was 1000x better than what we were seeing on most contemporary Saturday Morning Cartoons like SuperFriends, Scooby Doo, etc.
And, of course, the one that blew my mind was the pin-striping short.
Which is here...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO7ZqnRwqnQ
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