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themightymac
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..... at the Cinema?
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Report Jack Hacksaw • October 5, 2018 8:07 AM BST
Sound of Music.
Report Scamp the man • October 5, 2018 8:12 AM BST
Sound of Music was mine as well
Report Aspro • October 5, 2018 9:07 AM BST
101 Dalmatians is the first one I recall, although there may have been earlier ones
Report Gin • October 5, 2018 10:10 AM BST
The earliest that I remember was either Rocky or Freaky Friday
Report hfink • October 5, 2018 12:11 PM BST
Was probably a Disney movie, could well have been Snow White and The Seven Vertically Challenged Chaps.
Apparently my sister exclaimed "What a big telly!"
Report sofiakenny • October 5, 2018 12:27 PM BST
Some sword and sandals film with steve reeves.
Report Johnny_Mustang • October 5, 2018 12:45 PM BST
Ted 2.
Report SlippyBlue • October 5, 2018 12:49 PM BST
I'm pretty sure it was the Walt Disney production of 'Robin Hood', Streatham Odeon 1973.
Report tictacman1 • October 5, 2018 12:51 PM BST
Tarzan....
Report Johnny_Mustang • October 5, 2018 1:05 PM BST
Slippy, I saw my first film there too. Remember there was an ABC just along the road too.
Report Richie_Burnett • October 5, 2018 1:08 PM BST
Beavis + Butthead do america. It was 12 rated and I wasn't old enough so had to try 2 places to actually see it.
Report SlippyBlue • October 5, 2018 1:25 PM BST
Yes mate, there was an ABC on the High Street as well. The Odeon had a Wimpy bar bang opposite and we'd pop in there after watching a film back in the day.
Report screaming from beneaththewaves • October 5, 2018 3:10 PM BST
Thunderbirds Are Go (1966).

A film mainly remembered now for a performance by Cliff Richard and the Shadows, with the SUPERMARIONATION version of Hank Marvin frankly looking more realistic than the real-life one.

I can recall the feeling of wonderment at seeing the big screen for the first time, which is a good job, because an hour and a half where you can't lipread the dialogue is hard going when you have the attention-span of a five-year-old.
Report CLYDEBANK29 • October 5, 2018 3:17 PM BST
The earliest one I remember was one of the Herbie ones.  Couldn't tell you which one.
Report CLYDEBANK29 • October 5, 2018 3:19 PM BST
A look at dates suggests it was Herbie Rides Again which was my instinctive pick anyway
Report The Leopard • October 5, 2018 3:21 PM BST
Wizard of Oz , Horden Picture House c. 1963
Report donny osmond • October 5, 2018 4:24 PM BST
the bliss of mrs blossom
Report houseofpain • October 5, 2018 4:37 PM BST
The rescuers at cinema 1977 , still emotionally scared from my first betamax film 1979, not horror film any guesses.
Report acey deucy • October 5, 2018 4:38 PM BST
Planet Of The Apes 1968....Brilliant.....I was very very young then.Plain
Report acey deucy • October 5, 2018 4:43 PM BST
One of us would pay to go in and open the fire escape for the rest of the gang to come in.....Happy Days back in Paisley.LaughLaugh
Report Get me a drink • October 5, 2018 4:58 PM BST
The first one I remember is Peter Pan, 1968-ish. Went with my mum and aunt. During the journey to the cinema I remember they were quite amused when I told them how much I liked one of the girls in my play group.
Report houseofpain • October 5, 2018 5:01 PM BST
Ditto acey, the small toilet window must of been 18 inches wide we all squeezed through somehow.
Report acey deucy • October 5, 2018 5:02 PM BST
Yeah right houseofpain.Laugh
Report houseofpain • October 5, 2018 5:03 PM BST
wouldn't fancy many of us today would need 3ft Laugh.
Report acey deucy • October 5, 2018 5:07 PM BST
Aint that a fact.Laugh
Report ribero1 • October 5, 2018 5:14 PM BST
Could have been one of a few-The password for courage,The Fast Lady or may even be The Longest Day.
Report TheBaron • October 5, 2018 5:26 PM BST
Used to get taken to the pictures a lot when I was young, can't remember the first but would have been quite young so probably a proper Disney cartoon like Snow White, Pinocchio etc. They were brilliant on the big screen at that age.
Report SlippyBlue • October 5, 2018 6:52 PM BST
The obligatory choc ice and carton of Kiora at the interval of course was part and parcel of going to the cinema!
Report Aspro • October 5, 2018 7:02 PM BST

Oct 5, 2018 -- 4:43PM, acey deucy wrote:


One of us would pay to go in and open the fire escape for the rest of the gang to come in.....Happy Days back in Paisley.


Done the same at Walthamstow; as you say, happy days Laugh

Report acey deucy • October 5, 2018 7:06 PM BST
Laugh
Report Early Morning Riser • October 5, 2018 7:59 PM BST
Alfred Hitchcocks The birds. And i was nearly 8 LaughLaughLaugh.
Report screaming from beneaththewaves • October 5, 2018 10:37 PM BST
Hang on. I'd forgotten about Saturday morning children's matinees.

In that case my first film was Tarzan Goes To India, starring Jock Mahoney, at the Ambassador cinema, Farnham Rd, Slough, 1966.

I had a Kia-Ora and a Fab lolly and never got to see the ending, as the manager put the lights up and abandoned proceedings owing to rioting.
Report Facts • October 6, 2018 9:53 AM BST
Moby Dick - 1956, with my Dad.
Report iamajambo • October 6, 2018 12:02 PM BST
The Dam Busters.Would have been about 5 or 6 at the time.
Report ufcdan • October 6, 2018 1:19 PM BST
The Music man. Apparently I made my mum stay in the cinema so I could watch it again Excited
Report ufcdan • October 6, 2018 1:22 PM BST
Moby Dick -  with my Dad.

Yeah facts I had to watch it with my Dad, my mum refused to watch porn with us Excited
Report The_KAMIKAZEE_DRINKING_MACHINE • October 6, 2018 1:28 PM BST
Oliver! My sister took me to see Yellow Submarine but I was so terrified of the gargoyles in the foyer of the theatre she had to use Plan B. Not sure whether I liked it but I know she enjoyed it.
Report ufcdan • October 6, 2018 2:13 PM BST
My parents took me to see the Nutty Professor with Jerry Lewis. Meant to be a comedy, scared the sh1t out of me. Slept with the covers over my head for the next three or four years ScaredScaredScared
Report kenny mann • October 7, 2018 2:24 PM BST
Think my mum dreagged me see this when I was about 4.

Doris Day & Gordon MacRae - "By the Light of the Silvery Moon"

or it may have been Hans Christian Anderson with Danny Kaye which I loved.
Report Foinavon • October 7, 2018 2:37 PM BST
My parents took us every Saturday to watch those soppy black and white films, Kenny. Was too young to understand but no telly in them days so everyone went to the pictures.
Report Sharapour • October 7, 2018 3:16 PM BST
"The Tommy Steele Story", which I saw with my mum in 1957 aged two. Needless to say I don't remember much about it.
Report jamesdean • October 7, 2018 5:25 PM BST
The neverending story. 1984
Report 11kv • October 7, 2018 6:46 PM BST
Diamonds are Forever
Report timbuctooth • October 8, 2018 3:35 AM BST
Bambi, with mu Mum. Still remember the horror of that shot...
Report kenny mann • October 8, 2018 12:02 PM BST
Actually, Foinavon, both those films I mentioned were in colour. Dad died when I was 4 so mum took me and sis to the pictures once a week, I usually demanded to see a John Wayne film, or some other cowboy film.Big sis argued strongly that we didn't. We always got a quarter of Rilet's toffee rolls before we went.
Report themightymac • October 8, 2018 5:52 PM BST
Batman was the first I saw at the cinema.
Report themightymac • October 8, 2018 5:55 PM BST
It was a rare treat back then and a great family occasion. Society is worse now. Loners sitting in their rooms chatting with cyber friends on Facebook and Twitter all day and watching a film stream on a computer usually by themselves. Very sad.
Report kenny mann • October 8, 2018 6:21 PM BST
I think there were 20 cinemas in Bradford in the 50s 60's. Incredible,Now I think just 1.

Remember dashing out at the end of performances before the National Anthem started playing, as you just had to stand still back then if didn't get out quickly enough.
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