The first film you went to see at the pictures

Cinderella was my first movie in the theater. The candy was a very important part of the experience. I couldn't decide between the big box of popcorn or the Dot gumdrops. I remember settling for the popcorn. Quantity always won out back then.
My mom took me to the ladies room before the movie started and I marveled at the big sitting room with mirrors and over stuffed chairs all around and a big glass coffee table with a vase of artificial flowers, that was before you went into the room with the stalls and sinks.
 

My "church lady" grandmother took me to see the 1950s film King Solomon;s Mines starring Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr. We walked some miles up town to the theater and then walked home after. I loved the adventure aspects but grandma was disappointed that it wasn't purely biblical. She probably thought she was taking me to a bible lesson. I don't think she'd been to many movies or knew who H. Rider Haggard was.
 
JonDouglas said:
My "church lady" grandmother took me to see the 1950s film King Solomon;s Mines starring Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr. We walked some miles up town to the theater and then walked home after. I loved the adventure aspects but grandma was disappointed that it wasn't purely biblical. She probably thought she was taking me to a bible lesson. I don't think she'd been to many movies or knew who H. Rider Haggard was.
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I remember my own mother getting an unpleasant surprise or experience when my eldest sister persuaded my parents to go to watch a film based on a D.H.Lawrence novel, (Sons and Lovers I think, maybe because it was a book on the school curriculum), and the film had a scene where two almost naked men had a fight around a fire(?).

Another film I remember going to see at an early age was called Alfie with the memorable song "Charlie Girl" and Michael Caine as the lead actor, and all his cockiness, was one captivating aspect, though we ignored all the sexist messages or didn't recognise them then.
 
I distinctly remember what I recall as the first movie I ever went to but I'm not 100% sure it was the first. My mom took me to see Fantasia somewhere in the Long Beach or Sierra Madre area down in southern California. The theater must have been rather empty because I distinctly remember running to the row behind my mother when the devil section of the movie came on and I hid behind her seat. It scared the heck out of me. I also briefly recall the that I loved the dinosaur section of the movie.
 
Don't remember the flick, but it had to be a Disney movie. "Bambi" was a disaster. I remember the flick was about a deer, and that's all I remember. But I started crying in the middle of the pic, and they had to take me home.
 
grahamg said:
I remember my own mother getting an unpleasant surprise or experience when my eldest sister persuaded my parents to go to watch a film based on a D.H.Lawrence novel, (Sons and Lovers I think, maybe because it was a book on the school curriculum), and the film had a scene where two almost naked men had a fight around a fire(?).

Another film I remember going to see at an early age was called Alfie with the memorable song "Charlie Girl" and Michael Caine as the lead actor, and all his cockiness, was one captivating aspect, though we ignored all the sexist messages or didn't recognise them then.
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Apologies, the film I tried to recall that upset my mother was based upon another D.H. Lawrence book, called "Women in Love", and had the scene in it I mentioned earlier.

Here is s trailer for the film:

 
My mom would often dump all 3 of us at a theater so we would be out of her hair. There were no movie ratings or age restrictions back then & she didn't care what we watched. When I was around 7 or 8, we watched "The Pit And The Pendulum."
Yeah.......great choice for children, eh?
 

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