Your First Movie at a Theater or Drive-In

I wish I could...my parents took me to the Drive-In many times when I was very young. I don't remember the first but I do remember the Lost World with Michael Rennie...I really loved that one!

 

"The Cowboys" starring John Wayne. At the drive-in.

 

I didn't get out to a Drive-In even as a kid, and after high school there was one place still showing films up in Wheeling, IL (M&R Twin Drive-In) one of the films we saw:



Michael Richards (Seinfeld) was in it too!

 

I lasted about 15 minutes into Transylvania 6-5000 than then snuck out and into the theater next door...don't remember what I walked into, but it sure as hell wasn't as bad!

 

No clue. I do remember not going to sleep in the back seat after the first or second movie like I was supposed to and thus making my parents go home before the final feature.

 

I brought my pillow!

 

They showed Woody Woodpecker cartoons between the features. That's what kept piquing my interest.

 

ah, the good old golden days of years past...I am so glad I was there.... may as well be on another planet these days. I'm speaking personally as nothing was or will ever be perfect.

 

The first movie I remember seeing at a drive-in was Bambi when I was 3 or 4 in the early 60s. I remember going a few other times in the 60s, but the only movies I remember were a double feature of Support Your Local Sherrif and Yellow Submarine. I slept through most of Yellow Submarine. I still haven't seen the whole thing.

 

Doh, the scene with the kids on "Pleasure Island" is the stuff of nightmares for sure.

 

My best friend's mom took us to see a matinee on a Sunday for his, I think, 5th birthday.

 

The family went to see 'Mary Poppins' at the Robin Hood Drive-In. It was '65 or '66 and we watched from our powder blue Mercury station wagon but the most memorable parts of the evening was my first taste of popcorn (I was @5 years old) and I was fascinated with the metal box that hooked onto the window and provided the sound. It was revelatory in that I finally realized the process that went along with making a movie - actors, sound and film.

 

Most probably, my first movie was at the drive-in (went to the drive-in a lot when I was little to see double and triple features because dad loved going.) Also, my first movie was most probably a Disney movie (probably animated, but maybe not since I practically saw them all. Hell, it might have been one of the early Kurt Russell Disney movies, since I saw them all as a kid.)

The first non-Disney movie I remember seeing was at the Drive-in also, and it was a reshowing of the original Planet of the Apes, followed by a couple more Planet of the Apes movies (Triple Feature, some time in the early '70s when I was about 6 or 7.)


(Side note: The first R-rated movie with nudity that I remember seeing (I can't exactly remember what movie it was,) my mom said something about it afterwards. I was probably around 11 or 12. The more I think about it, the movie may have been "The Deep" with Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bissett. Or it was a similar movie around that same time.)

 

A Christmas classic!

 

The first drive-in movie I remember seeing was "I Want To Live!" starring Susan Hayward when I was eight or nine.

I have no doubt we went to see other movies before that at a drive-in, but I think this one left such an impression that I remember it as the first.

 

Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom, back in '84, with my parents.

 

The Muppet Movie with my parents. A few weeks later Star Wars/Empire Strikes Back - back to back.

 

That sounds like a great three-movie run!

 

Gorgo....at the Bucks County Drive In.

 

For real fun, combine them!

 

First I remember was Yellow Submarine age 3

 

I can't remember the exact year, but it was in the early sixties.

The Three Stooges Meet Hercules.

 

IMDB says it came out in 1962.

 

"For the Love of Benji". I was 10. It was a Pizza/Movie/Ride Home for a friend's birthday.

 

'King Kong Vs. Godzilla', 1962, at the Kenmore theater on Church avenue in Brooklyn. No drive ins for me, family had no car and we lived in an urban area.