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What's the first film that you ever remember seeing in theaters?

For me, Disney's Aladdin (1992). Came out just shortly after I turned 4 years old, apparently.

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ClydeKoolray · 46-50, M

The Empire Strikes Back, 1980. I also remember showing up a few minutes late because we went to Burger King and got a couple of the commemorative glasses first.

I must have seen the original Star Wars in the theater, but honestly can’t say i remember it.

clairedelune · M

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. In 1977.

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Jacko1971 · 51-55, M

@SomeMichGuy Maybe but there was 4 years between me and my brother and the cinema costs money. I watched the kid stuff growing up and then the action stuff in my teens.

Jacko1971 · 51-55, M

@Jacko1971 edit. I said there was (were) 4 years between us. Technically there still is.

NativePortlander1970

@clairedelune I had turned seven a few weeks before it's 1977 release, it wasn't called A New Hope until after Jedi was released in 1983, before then it was just plain Star Wars.

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

Bedknobs and broomsticks. '70/'71.
I was 5 or 6 and my Grandfather took me 😃

Jacko1971 · 51-55, M

@Picklebobble2 I saw that. It must have been a re run. During the 70s I saw several Disney films. One of My Dinosaurs Is Missing stands out because I went to the toilet in the middle of it.

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@Jacko1971 Back when Disney movies were a bit out there but fun !
To this day if I could get a copy of 'Now you see him, now you don't' an early Kurt Russell movie, I'm sure I'd enjoy it just the same

bijouxbroussard · F

West Side Story, with my parents, at a drive in. My parents said I loved it, which I believe, because I still do.

Poppies · 61-69, F

101 Dalmations. 1961.

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DrWatson · 70-79, M

@Poppies My parents once took me to The King and I. I crawled under the seat in the theater and went to sleep!

Poppies · 61-69, F

@DrWatson Gum, candy, soda, popcorn! Sounds like a delightful place to sleep! 😄

DrWatson · 70-79, M

@Poppies Apparently I gave the accommodations (as opposed to the movie) a 5 star rating!

Lostpoet · M

The Lion King in a drive in theater.

Jacko1971 · 51-55, M

@Lostpoet did you watch the film?

Lostpoet · M

@Jacko1971 Yeah, I was the perfect age for it. I think Jarasic Park was the first indoor theater I saw a movie in.

Queendragonfly · 31-35, F

102 dalmatians

DrWatson · 70-79, M

The first two were Snow White and Cinderella, but I cannot remember the order. It was in the 1950's.

BridgeOvertroubledWaters · 61-69, M

Either Disney's Fantasia or The Jungle Book , sometime in the late 60s

DearAmbellina2113 · 41-45, F

Brewster's Millions (1982)
I was two years old but I remember it well.

MorriganoftheNight · F

Showing my age now, it was Bambi

SomeMichGuy · M

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves...wait, no...it was a Muybridge...yes...wow, that takes me back...

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SomeMichGuy · M

@Jacko1971 It's great you know it! 😊👍

Jacko1971 · 51-55, M

@SomeMichGuy I believe the cameras were set off by a sequence of trip wires.

SomeMichGuy · M

@Jacko1971 Yeah it was a "movie" constructed of a series of photos, exactly like those used for a zoetrope (the name used by Francis Ford Coppola for his studios).

The wikipedia article says former Sen. Stanford spent around $50k on a series of Muybridge's experiments with early movies...interesting.

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Jacko1971 · 51-55, M

@SW-User ive never seen that.

Orpheus · 56-60, M

Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Probably at about the same age you were.

SimplyMeChantou ·

E.T.i think

SageWanderer · 70-79, M

The first one I remember bits and pieces of would be The Long, Long Trailer with Lucy & Desi (1954). First one I remember without my parents would be The Shaggy Dog (1959) at a Saturday matinee.

LeopoldBloom · M

Fiddler on the Roof in 1971. I was around 9 years old. However, my parents had taken us to a lot of equity waiver theater so I’d seen a lot of plays by that age. I can’t remember the first play I saw.

Piper · 61-69, F

Big Red (1962), also a Disney movie. I would have been 5 or 6. I remember feeling very sad and concerned for the Irish Setter, and the boy who loved him.

ElwoodBlues · M

Windjammer, in Cinerama.

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I googled it; the Cinerama version was a 1962 & later re-release.

eyeno · M

Godzilla..,
Wow had to think about that one..,

Jacko1971 · 51-55, M

@eyeno which one?

eyeno · M

@Jacko1971 though I tried can't recall the episode.., i was about six years old. But I do remember walking to the theater with my cousin, brother and another.