What was your first big screen movie?

[mia]

I saw this afternoon matinee with my neighborhood friends. We walked to the theater. Back then, kids were free, as long as we were home for dinner. I paid for it with nickels from the tin in my father's closet.

I was 7 years old and lived just outside DC.

[wcmagumba]

1. Not sure this counts but the first I remember was "Blue Hawaii" at the drive in with parents...

I would have been about five or six....not sure what year we saw it...

[True Dough]

2. My dad took my sister and me

to see Star Wars when I was about 4 or 5 years old. Still have a few brief memories of that evening.

[yellowdogintexas]

3. the first one I can remember is "Alice In Wonderland" (Disney version)

I was probably around 4

[Teenage Zombie]

4. My Dad

took me to see "Journey to the Center of the Earth" in a huge downtown movie palace. 1959.

[Walleye]

5. Forbidden planet. Afternoon matinee

Capitol theater, Dover, Delaware. I went with my brother and we got in for Coke bottles for admission as a special promotion.I guess I was about seven. I probably saw others as I went to the drive-in with my parents before that, but I don’t remember any of the specific movies
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[cachukis]

6. Lady and the Tramp 1955. I had to take a nap.

My father took me. Bonding. I was 3.

[Tribetime]

7. Mary Poppins or the Sound of Music my Mom took us

When I was 4 I think

[PoliticAverse]

8. I don't remember (probably because I fell asleep in the car at the drive-in part way through). n/t

[Ocelot II]

9. I think it might have been "How The West Was Won" in Cinerama.

I also vaguely remember "Around the World in 80 Days," some movie about the voyages of Sinbad and being in the back seat of the car at a drive-in when my parents were watching a movie about the Khyber Pass.

[Beatlelvr]

20. I was going to say that one also but

It might have been Lawrence of Arabia.

[Srkdqltr]

10. In the mid 50's I saw Wizard of Oz. I know that wasn't the first but it's the first one I remember.

Was in the Beverly Theatre in Detroit. I was there with several cousins. Probably about 12-13 years old at the time.

[House of Roberts]

11. I think it was That Darn Cat,

but it could have been Ride the Wild Surf, which was released earlier, but watched during a summer series of morning matinees with admission of six Dr. Pepper bottle caps.

It was also possibly For A Few Dollars More with Clint Eastwood.

[Laffy Kat]

25. That was mine, too, although there were probably others I don't remember.

We wore dresses and I had on black patent leather shoes! Back then we dressed up to "go to town."

[Sneederbunk]

12. Shane 1953

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

14. What exactly do you mean by "big screen movie"?

Just any movie seen at a theater?

I couldn't begin to tell you what it might have been, as I would have been going to movies by the time I was three or four, maybe younger to the drive-in. I was born in 1948 and so had my childhood in something of a golden age of movie attendance.

When I was a little kid the local theaters had Saturday matinees. Our parents dropped us off, we had money for candy or popcorn, went inside and watched for hours. At least two different movies, plus cartoons, plus newsreel, plus previews. Truly a golden age. Oh, and probably no one over the age of 16 inside the theater itself, so you can imagine the mayhem.

[Chipper Chat]

18. I remember when cinemascope came in to vogue

They had to build on the right and left side of the screen to double its size the 1st movie I remember seen was the 10 commandments

[mia]

19. A Saturday matinee was my fist "big screen" experience.

The neighborhood kids warned us not to sit near the adults in the back rows. They called them "the weirdos". Little kids were supervised by the big kids, the projectionist, the ticket taker, and the popcorn lady.

[Laffy Kat]

26. We had one of those theaters, too, although I couldn't go until I was a little older.

It was called the Northgate Theater in the Northgate Shopping Center and it was a pit. Older girls smoked cigarettes in the bathroom and we were afraid of them. Absolutely no one but kids in the theater. It was a filthy place. Everyone talked through the movie and made wisecracks. We used to joke that they gave you two sticks when you bought a ticket: one to hold up your seat and the other to beat off the rats!

[jcgoldie]

15. Star Wars

1977 I was 4 years old. I cried when my folks told me to get ready to go because war was in the title and I thought it was going to be some boring black and white WWII movie like my dad used to watch all the time. I became an instant convert and 3 years later when the empire strikes back came out they dropped me off at the theater to wait in line all afternoon to see it first!

[Polly Hennessey]

16. The first one I remember was Frankenstein.

It scared me. I ran up the aisles and peeked at it from the back of the theater. I finally went back to my seat and watched it. Mom would drive us to the movies and pick us up. We sure had fun. No worries about anything.

[FuzzyRabbit]

17. Walt Disney's "The Seven Dwarfs"

at the Paramount Theater in Seattle. This was in about 1950, so my memory is a little vague. I went either with my Mom or with my Grandma.

[csziggy]

21. First I can remember was Gone with the Wind at the drive in

My parents took us to see it. I fell asleep at some point, then the burning of Atlanta woke me up for a bit, then I slept until we got home. Looking at the history of releases, I suspect it was 1954 when I was only two years old.

Another early movie I remember was The Man with the X-Ray Eyes with Ray Milland. My sisters took me and it set me up for a life of loving Grade B science fiction movies!

[Binkie The Clown]

22. On Moonlight Bay (1951) Doris Day. The first time my folks took me to the movies.

My youngest son had a much more exciting first big screen experience. His was the first Star Wars, just after it came out.

[mopinko]

23. snow white. scared the bejezuz out of me.

screamed and cried til my sister took me home.

[Mad_Dem_X]

30. The witch was scary!

[Rhiannon12866]

24. Cinderella

I was a preschooler and my mother (who was expecting my brother) took us on the bus to see it since she didn't learn to drive until we moved out of the city. And she said I cried and wanted to leave because I was afraid of the cat...

[targetpractice]

27. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang...

... I stormed out when the Child Catcher showed up.

Before the movie started, a friend of my mother approached to say "hello"... I responded with, "You have a very nice forehead." He was bald and I was very young.

[highplainsdem]

28. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad is the earliest one I'm sure of, though there might've been

some Disney films before that.

[Mad_Dem_X]

29. No doubt something from Disney.

I remember being at the drive-in with my folks and younger sister, watching Dumbo and Bedknobs and Broomsticks. So it was probably one of those.