First Movie Memory

I must have been four or five but I distinctly remember watching The original ' King Kong ' on TV with my Dad.
My memory of this is clear.I was laying on the carpet with a blanket and pillow and he was stretched out on the couch.
We were drinking hot chocolate and I was totally caught up in this extraordinary thing I was watching.
I was stunned when Kong died at the end.

 

The first time I watched it was in bed, but I couldn't even make it to midway through without conking out cold.
(I think it was the Beautyrest that killed the beast).

 

First theater memory was seeing the original animated Lord of the Rings movie when I was six years old.
I distinctly remember the scenes with the Nazgul.

 

I actually remember seeing Houseboat at the Drive-in in 1958, and also The Defiant Ones in the theater the same year.
Don't know which came first.
I'm racking my brains for earlier ones since we went so often.

 

Peter Seller's "A Shot In The Dark". I was a wee lad who could barely follow the plot. Our family would go to the movies once or twice a year, and one of them was inevitably the latest Pink Panther offering.

 

Going to a movie theater in August 1960 to see Hayley Mills in “Pollyanna”. My family was moving the next day and with everything packed my parents decided to take us the movies. I remember one neighborhood kid had told me it was sad when Pollyanna fell from the tree and watching the movie I was wondering when this would happen. I really remember how nice air conditioning was in August.

 

Mine may have also been Hayley Mills, only in Moonspinners.

Nope, wait - too late - that wasn't until '64. My brother and I also saw First Men In The Moon, which is a 1961 film (nope, now I'm seeing, it too is a 1964 film)

Then again, howabout watching The Wizard Of Oz' annual televised airing...and hiding in Mom & Dad's bedroom when the trumpets started blaring as Dorothy watched the hourglass in the witches' castle. On second thought that was on the Philco, so that wouldn't have been until the mid-'60s...

Or...waitaminute, it may have been How The West Was Won, which was 1962...only it may have been a 1963 showing, actually at a local drive-inn, where they had to lengthen the screen. It rained that night, and we had to come back the next night to finish the show.

Ahhh, wrong again. Babes In Toyland, 1961. Now I got somethin'...!

 

I can't remember if any of the following were my very first movie memory, but I definitely recall seeing these films on TV when I was around 3 or 4 years old in the 1960s:

The Blob
House of Wax
Mr. Sardonicus
The Bad Seed
The Beast with Five Fingers
13 Ghosts
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
The Colossus of New York
The Wizard of Oz
My Little Chickadee
The Big Operator

 

I think it may possibly have been a 1950s western I saw in the cinema (we did not have a TV at the time), but I do not remember the title (it had a shootout in a barn towards the end I think).

 

My earliest memory of seeing a movie was E.T. at the theater ;however, I don't think it was the first film that I actually saw. It was probably some Disney film.

 

Nightmares from 1962 phantom of the opera comes to mind.
Went to see a tiger walks 1965. 10 years later it was an adult theater.

 

My first vivid movie memory was a Sunday tv matinee of The Pink Panther when I was 6 or 7. In particular I remember being blown away by the monkey car chase scene:

 

My Mother taking me to see the first run version of One Hundred and One Dalmatians at the Seneca Theatre, Queen Street in Niagara Falls ON.

 

Giant animals must make an impression on young minds... my first memory of a movie is as a 5-year-old, going to the drive-in theater to see "Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World"... 1973 and some of the images still stick in me head 47 years later though I've never seen the flick since...

 

Probably the Wizard of Oz on TV when I was 3 or 4. The first movie I saw in a theater was Disney's The Jungle Book age 4.

 

1967, "The Sound of Music". Panavision. I was 3 1/2.
I blotted out much of the Nazi content. Still remains
my favorite film, for good reason: The cinematography.
The simple story. The locations. The stars. The kids.
Best of all: The Music.

That was chased, in order, by:

"Thoroughly Modern Millie"
"2001"
"Oliver!"
"A Boy Named Charlie Brown"
"Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory"

I had no way of knowing film was changing as fast
as pop music. Musicals soon would fall out of favor.
"Butch Cassidy" was among the last of the great
Westerns for a long time. "Bonnie and Clyde"
( seen much later ) gave way to the realism
of "The Godfather".

All of these movies were good for a child's eyes.
If I had to choose the weakest in the pack, that
would be "Millie". But that was a hoot, too.
Didn't age well, though.

First TV film? I've no idea.

 

“Marry Poppins”, State-Lake Theater, downtown Chicago...

 

King Kong 1976 for a friend's birthday party when I was 5.

 

What did you think about Jessica Lange at that tender age? Was she hot...or icky?

 

My memory is a bit of a fog. I know I watched a lot of movies early on (ET being one of them, and a lot of Disney movies), but thinking back, the first one I actually remember watching now, was Back To The Future. It was when it first came out on VHS, and my family was vacationing at Hilton Head. I was about six at the time, and I was the youngest in our family. I remember being so confused - my six year old brain couldn't handle the time travel plot very well. But I do remember finding the purple underwear line and Marty falling over trying to put his pants on hilarious - the things we remember when we were kids!

 

"The Sound of Music"- Bayshore Drive in late 1965 from the back of a Dodge 1966 Coronet station wagon in light metallic green. John.

 

I'm lucky I can remember seeing the movie at all.

 

I remember going to a double feature of Pinocchio and Splash when I was 3 or 4, but only staying for Pinocchio.

 

Home On The Range in 2004 at the movie theater with my mom.

 

It would've been[The Fifty Foot Woman]which was campy even way back then,hehehe!