Can you remember the first film you saw?

[funlover]

The first film I ever saw got me a thick ear from the old man. He and Ma took me to see "Annie Get Your Gun" at the Odean Camberwell Green. After the show we waited at the Tram stop in the rain. The tram appeared and before anyone could grab me I had dashed out into the middle of the road to get on it. I was about 5 at the time. Anyway once on board Pop gave me a clout saying " You do that anymore and you'll get one round both ears.

[wadsy]

Went along to local Cinema ( The Oxford ) with my classmates from Primary



School to watch The Song of Bernadette. I think the School ( or more



likely our Church) had hired the Theatre. This would have been 1961 or 62, I



was 6 or 7 years old. The film was first released in 1943, hence the hire theory!

[batman]

At the cinema, The 300 Spartans at the Theatre Royal, Norwich.

[Steve Crook]

name='batman']At the cinema, The 300 Spartans at the Theatre Royal, Norwich.

David Farrar's last film.



Steve

[CaptainWaggett]

Song of the South on what I suspect will be its last ever cinema release. I'm glad to say I remember absolutely nothing at all about it. Presumably at some dingy South London Odeon.

[batman]

name='Steve Crook']David Farrar's last film.



Steve

End of one era ... start of another!

[Mark O]

The first Movie I can recall seeing at the Cinema when I was a Nipper was 'Thunderbirds are go', being a Thunderbirds nut then (and still today!).......I guess it would be about 1966, I distinctly remember Alan Tracy's 'dream' sequence when he goes on a date with Lady Penelope, literally to the Stars to see Cliff Richard junior and the Shadows!

[homeguard]

South Pacific at the Playhouse, Feltham, Middx.

Brilliant. Soundtrack never been bettered in my opinion.

Regards,

HG

[dpgmel]

Lawrence of Arabia with my parents at the New Cross Odeon

[sippog]

name='dpgmel']Lawrence of Arabia with my parents at the New Cross Odeon

Lawrence was the first truly magical film experience I ever had, aged around 12, even though it gave me a terrible headache. I'd seen other films but that was the one that registered the most.



The first film I remember must have been a Sabu film because a tiger leaped out of the film and made me cry. I was around five and I think my father must have taken me to see it in desperation because he didn't know what else to do with me

[GRAEME]

Where Eagles Dare - I was 4. Unforgettable!



Since I then rather quickly saw Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, OHMSS and Hannibal Brooks - I bagan to think ALL movies had to have German mountains, castles and (preferebly) cable cars in them!

[TimR]

Mary Poppins I was four.



I still remember the scene where the children take the medicine and it comes out in different colors and the scenes of the chimney sweeps dancing.



That was probably the first film for most children in the US of my generation. That - or The Sound of Music or for those a little older, The Parent Trap with Hayley Mills.



I remember my mother saying that Bing Crosby and Bob Hope were the definition of "star" for her, even when she grew older, because when she grew up they were the biggest names around. For me, it was Julie Andrews and Paul Newman.



I didn't grasp the concept of sets at the time. I thought that really was London. I became interested in European cities and maps because of that film; soon I had maps of Britain and even of London.



Then I saw it many years later, and realized it was a set!!

[Arthur Linden-Jones]

Probably, in pajamas, dressing gown and slippers : Hatter's Castle with Robert Newton, at a car dealership in Newcastle NSW (this company used to clear its showroom floor once a month on a Sunday evening, and show a film for staff, family and friends.



On my own? That would be a year or two later with The Titfield Thunderbolt, and John Ford's Stagecoach at my YMCA school holiday's activities.



At a cinema : I can't remember which film (and I don't want to!), but it was a Saturday afternoon matinee of a Martin/Lewis so-called comedy ... I think that cemented my loathing of Lewis as a totally-uncomedic clown .... and subsequently carried forward those feelings to Jim Carrey.

[winsfordtown]

'Born Free'. It was just so massive when I was used to watching on a tiny black and white TV in sixties

[billy bentley]

First time at the cinema would have been Saturday Morning Pictures (PKA the tuppeny rush), plenty of stamping, booing and cheering, but no specifics as to what at. You went for the card, nothing specific, but I do remember Old Muvver Riley being on the bill regularly.

[Narau]

The lion king

I'm 17, of course.

[Widmerman]

I remember seeing this film at the Granada, Thornton Heath with my father, I must have been about 5. I think this was the first film that I saw.

[dogstar]

Tommy Steele in Tommy The Toreador - the one where he sang 'Little White Bull' ) and I think my Mum took me again the following week to see A Challenge for Robin Hood - for some reason I still remember the fight scene. I think Barrie Ingham played Robin.

[jaycad]

'watership down'-scared the s**t out of me as i was only about 5 years old, still can't watch it now because of that bloody ghost rabbit!

[Brief Encounter]

Possibly 'Snow White' - when it was re-issued in the early 90s, of course...!



Which according to my research was 1993, when I was aged 6. Hmmm...