What was the first film you watched ? ETA at the Cinema

[phantasmagoriana]

Possibly The Care Bears Movie.

I had memories of seeing Button Moon (would have been around the same time?) but a quick Google shows there was no such film.

[ian]

I'm also pretty sure my mother smuggled me in to see Jaws, and I must have been very little. I'm not entirely sure my brain isn't making this one up. That's the only time I remember my mother going to the cinema, I think she pretty much gave up doing stuff when she got married, other than having children and smoking I suppose.

[T42]

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, when I was 5, i.e. in 1952. The mirror, mirror on the wall scared the shit out of me.

[Mr Larrington]

At st custards we used to get fillums shown in the Assembly Hall.  The first one I can remember seeing there was The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, which was a bit of an eye-opener for an 8 y/o.  Don't remember going to an actual cinema before that.

[Jurek]

I remember my Gran taking me to the ABC Streatham to see Where Eagles Dare when it first came out when I was about 10.
"Broadsword calling Danny Boy. Broadsword calling Danny Boy. Do you read me? Over."
In which Clint Eastwood as Lt. Schaeffer single-handedly wipes out most of the Waffen SS.
Gran loved it.

[hatler]

Said to be the film with Eastwood's highest body count.

[benborp]

Do any of the cinemas where we saw our first films still exist?

[Jurek]

Do any of the cinemas where we saw our first films still exist?

ABC Streatham (I believe the Art Deco frontage is Grade II listed) has for a while been a block of apartments, with a carpet vendor occupying the Grade II bit.

[rafletcher]

Do any of the cinemas where we saw our first films still exist?

No, but the one in Uckfield I used to go to after the Crowborough one shut still does, an that’s some 50 years on.

ETA: It was the Regent in CRowborough, now offices and a bank.

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/41105  (It's just a Lloyds now)

[Jurek]

Said to be the film with Eastwood's highest body count.

That wouldn't surprise me. He appeared to have been given what looks like free reign over magazine clips and explosives.

[Wowbagger]

I'm reasonably confident that it was the Ritz Cinema in Billericay (1938-1971) for The Young Ones with Bloody Cliff. That came out in 1961 so I would have been about 7 or 8 I think.

[Cudzoziemiec]

The first one I remember is Bedknobs and Broomsticks, though I'm pretty sure I'd been at least once before that.

Like hatler, going in during daylight and coming out in darkness was weird.

I still find it weird!

[Feanor]

The first of the Star Wars (which I think is now called episode 4, for inexplicable reasons) at the cinema in Elgin.
We lived in a small village called Burghead, some 10 miles away, at the time.
Going to the cinema was Not A Thing we did, so this was a bit of a revelation.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Do any of the cinemas where we saw our first films still exist?

The one I was in closed when I was about 11, became a bingo hall, then reopened as a cinema in the '90s. According to streetview it's now a nightclub, but that's probably out of date too.

[SteveC]

The first two live action films I saw were Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. I have no idea what order, though. I was convinced Julie Andrews was in every film for a while.
I also remember going to see the Disney Snow White which gave my sister nightmares (most things did), but that may have been a little later.

The local flea pit now appears to be a gym. The old Gaumont is now the Mayflower Theatre. I have no idea what happened to the Oden, the ABC or the Classic.

[Kim]

The first of the Star Wars (which I think is now called episode 4, for inexplicable reasons)

I was going to object that they always called it Episode 4 for inexplicable reasons, but it seems that started with the 1981 re-release.

I didn't see Star Wars in the cinema until the late 90s, when the pooing dinosaur edition came out.

[CommuteTooFar]

The first film I saw in the Cinema was Disney Cinderella. A rainy day on holiday in Tenby.  The second was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The intermission was the scariest thing ever in cinema. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang runs down the slope to the gap between the cliffs then. Red Screen and the cinema curtains close.

The first film I saw without my parents was Waterloo. The Odeon, Cardiff Queen Street. With my brother and his friend. In 1970 I was eight years old and didn't really follow what was going on apart at the end of the confusing battle our side won.

I have never liked complicated films. My favourite line in the recent Claude Van Damme Amazon prime series.  The chief villain says something like "Stop stop, don't all attack him at once, its confusing. Attack him one by one"


 

[cycleman]

Swaĺlows and amazon's at the cinema in Epsom.
The only other film I saw in a cinema Was

Close encounters of the third kind.  When on a scout camping holiday. The cinema Was in Western super  mare . 

[CommuteTooFar]

I was lucky when I grew up. Lots of cinemas in Cardiff in the 60s and 70s.

Three cinemas on Queen street.

The Odeon, The Olympia (became the ABC with three small screens(your main telly is bigger than the smallest screen) and the best cinema The Capitol with its very big wide screen.

Then we had the cinemas in the suburbs.

In the west.  Mill lane Ely, near where I lived there was the Regent.  That only showed Saturday morning matinees and old films in the summer holidays. The Avenue at the bottom of Wilson Road Ely became a Rolls Royce and other very expensive cars dealership before I realised it used to be a cinema.

In the east on Rumney Hill was the County.

On North road, Gabalfa was the Plaza.

In Rhiwbina the Monico. Probably where I saw most films. The last to close. Lasted up to the age of the multiplex.

There were small cinemas on City Road and in Grange town but I can not remember them showing any films.

I nearly missed one. The Prince of Wales. Used to show porn flicks. I was too young to understand the titles. Never saw anything there. I have been inside it after it closed. Can not remember why.

[Efrogwr]

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, when I was 5, i.e. in 1952. The mirror, mirror on the wall scared the shit out of me.

Almost the same here, except that I can't remember what it was that terrified me.

[nicknack]

First I can remember is cos it was while we was on a summer holiday in Woolacombe. Twas Summer Holiday wiv Cliff and the Shads, of course - prob in '63. I was 10.

[farfetched]

Would have been 68 or 69, Bambi at the Warrington Odeon. But I also have very vivid memories (trauma?) Of the wizard of Oz around the same time. The odeon is now a Wetherspoons pub according to google maps ( I don't live there anymore).

[phantasmagoriana]

Do any of the cinemas where we saw our first films still exist?

Yes, Theatr Clwyd in Mold for me. Just checked online and it's still going (as the name suggests, it was always a theatre as well as showing films).

ETA maybe I did actually see Button Moon, but it was a play of some sort rather than a film...

[bobb]

The Cat from Outer Space. I remember it well. It was at the old Odeon cinema in town before it closed (after a fire) and reopened many years later.

Google tells me that was in 1978. The second must have been Watership Down (also 1978) as that was at the new cinema, which of course was demolished some years later after.... a fire.

Nothing seems to burn down anymore, not like the good old days!

[orienteer]

First film I recall was "The day the earth stood still"; the 1951 original, not the 2008 remake! At the Gaumont, Highbury Corner, London (long since gone).