Your First Movie at a Theater or Drive-In

The Ghost And Mr. Chicken cam eout in 1966

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059221/combined

so I'm guessing you saw it during its original run.

 

First to come to mind for theater would be West Side Story. Drive inn not sure.

 

Well, my parents took me to see "Please Don't Eat The Daisies", with Doris Day, at a drive-in when I was 5 years old. And, I remember thinking, even at that tender age, "Who wants to sit through this crap?"

 

The first one I remember seeing all the way through in a theater was a Disney package show of Island At the Top Of The World (w/David Hartman of all people) with Winnie The Pooh at the front end. I think we stayed for another showing of The Pooh!

I almost certain my mother took my sister and I to see the 1973 rerelease of Camelot, but I was waaaaay too young. I slept through most of it.

We weren't really a drive in kind of family. I went with a friend's family to see a rerelease of Bambi at the local drive...looks like it was 1982.

 

my Mom used to take me to the movies every week...She was a big fan of The Pink Panther movies...I remember going to see them with her. She took me and my best friend to see A Hard Day's Night...brave Mom! LOTS OF SCREAMING!!!!

 

Robin Hood, the animated Disney version.

 

First drive-in movie, with parents, '67 Buick Sport Wagon....Casino Royale.

 

Jason and the Argonauts..........Saturday Matinee at a whopping .35 cents!!
Mannheim Germany 1963.
It changed my life.

 

One of my first drive-in shows was a double feature. Buck Rodgers and Battlestar Galactica. Great movies. Loved the TV shows, as well.

 

I went with my parents in the mid-60s to the King Drive-In in Russellville, Alabama (which is still in business!) and all that I remember was the Woody Woodpecker cartoon that was shown before the main attraction (a western, I think).

 

My mom and dad took me (5 years old) and my sister who was 8 to see Debbie Does Dallas at the drive in. This was in '78. I can still hear my mom saying "that was a neat little film" as the credits were rolling. After the movie, my sister and I just sat in the back seat of the car staring at the floorboard as my parents ordered some drive thru.

 

Sayonara (1957) at some drive-in near Clinton or Worcester, Massachusetts
1949 light green Ford wagon

Hardly kids fare. The other earliest drive-in title I can recall is Pork Chop Hill which came a couple of years later. I'll bet I never watched either all the way through, which was likely true of any we went to when I was very young. My only other memories are wearing pajamas in the car, having my three older sisters there, too, being amazed at the screen size and window speaker, and going to get snacks between whatever other movies were shown.

 

My first drive-in experience was when I was around 8 years old. We went to see some animated movie that I've long since forgotten. On the other hand, I do remember that the other screen at the drive-in was showing "The Island", which was NOT a movie that 8-year-olds should be watching. But I watched it anyway, through the back window of the family car. I saw boobs for the first time that night. Thank you, Angela Punch McGregor, for giving me a jumpstart into puberty.

 

I've just recalled my first drive in movie experience: it was some kind of espionage flick starring Gregory Peck. I can remember one scene where Peck's character is fleeing through a field, and there are bombs falling around him. The film was in color, and it was sometime during the mid to late sixties that I saw it. Judging from the IMBd film list it may have been The Chairman.

 

1959, and have small vivid recollections of the two different movies that I got to see, 'Sleeping Beauty' and 'Ben Hur'. For first time movie experiences, at such a young age, they were both extremely impressive, and have stuck with me ever since. Probably at least partly why I am still a big movie fan, even though I think the general quality of new movies has really gone down the toilet. They did so much more, with so much less, back then.

 

I can't be absolutely sure, but the first one I remember at our home town theater was some Three Stooges thing whose title escapes me. The first show at the drive-in may have been Elvis Presley in "Blue Hawaii" in 1961 or '62.

 

I can't remember the very first movie I ever saw at the drive-in but a few I did see away back then included

The Odd Couple
Let it Be
Woodstock
Kelly's Heroes
M*A*S*H
99 Women
Pretty Maids All In A Row
Night Of The Lepus
The Green Slime
Little Big Man
Travels With My Aunt
The Phantom Tollbooth
Bullitt
The Boyfriend
Dirty Harry
Big Jake
Elvis That's The Way It Is
Colossus The Forbin Project
Two Mules For Sister Sara
Airport

 

"Herbie the Love Bug" I had my pajamas on from what I remember...

sean

 

First movie at a Drive-In was either SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT or SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER.

First at an indoor theater was THE RESCUERS.

I'm lucky to have two Drive-Ins within 45 minutes of home, and have been making regular trips to the only
all-35mm, all-retro Drive-In in the world, The Mahoning Drive-In in Lehighton, PA this summer. Tonight
I'm headed down there for a William Shatner double feature of THE DEVIL'S RAIN and KINGDOM OF
THE SPIDERS!

https://www.facebook.com/mahoningdriveintheater?pnref=story

 

Wow! You are lucky to have that!

 

The Birds at the drive-in! Earliest recollection of seeing a movie on the big screen.

 

The Mahoning Drive-In is actually 6 hours away from where I live, but totally worth the drive for
the rarity of the prints and experience.

 

Crest theater in Long Beach, CA to see Dr. No.

 

My dad took us to that one but I don't think it was my first movie....

 

I'm going to miss actual projected film . The last films I saw that were projected as real 35mm and 16mm were The Devils Rejects and Rambo.