What Was the First Movie You Saw in a Theater?

[John Cole]

My first theater experience was in the summer of 1959 when my aunt brought me to see a double feature of The Fly and The Alligator People. I was five at the time, and I remember how much the sun hurt my eyes when I left the theater on that hot summer's day. The movies were the equivalent of Ovid's Metamorphosis for the atomic age.

John

[Bob T.]

The first one I remember seeing was 'The Longest Day'. I guess my parents couldn't get a baby sitter that day. I think 'Fantasia' might have been the actual first one.

[Easy E]

I had nightmares for weeks.... if i was to the theater before then, it didn't make an impression.

(love sharks to this day)

[Rick Nebiolo]

John,

I think I saw "101 Dalmations" in a theatre but my earliest cool movie memory was watching "Spartacus" with my parents and sleeping baby brother at the drive in. Artsy for a six year old.

Regards,

Rick

[Ray Zee]

leave it to cole to remember the names of the first movie he saw when 5 years old. geeezch

but when i was young the movies gave you a preview which was a car race around some dirt track. then if your car won, you got a number for the race with your ticket, you got some kind of prize.

[Cyrus]

The parents started taking me to kid matinees early on so my best guess would be some kind of cartoon feature. But the first movie that stuck was one that had a knife stabbing scene in it, the bad guy stabbing the good guy over the woman's favors. It was lower than B-quality and the scene must have been very crudely done, but it had an effect on a 7-year old.

[Jimbo]

I believe it was 1958 when I was taken to see Rodan by Inshiro Honda. It was a great movie and influenced my viewing habits to this day. The first drive-in movie I went to was with my older sister and her boyfriend, King Kong (The original version). The same genre as Rodan, guess my family was either into fantasy or prehistoric monsters. [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

[andyfox]

Don't remember exactly. I do remember my mom taking me to see Gigi and my dad, trying to counteract its influence, taking me to see The Thief of Baghdad.

If I had to bet, I'd bet it was Dumbo. I'd never seen an elephant fly.

[Clarkmeister]

The first one I remember was a double feature of King Kong and Jason and the Argonauts.

[Boris]

Oh wow. You're younger than I am. Jason and the Argonauts was an awesome movie. I had forgotten.