What was the first film you saw in the cinema?

[Hammerhead]

Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger. Drive-in cinema, Nairobi, Kenya.
(I wasn't driving, Dad did. I was only 7 )

[Flumpo]

Around the world in 80 days. Starring Steve coogan, I think we left the cinema when he got in a hot tub with arnie wearing a wig.

Edit - oops, taken out my contact lenses, thought that said worst!

[quigonjay]

Star Wars Ep4 A New Hope when i was six.

[pitboard]

Mine was The Red Balloon, a French classic. I took my grandson to see his first film last week. Farmageddon. We had a great time.

[LimaDelta]

pitboard said:

Mine was The Red Balloon, a French classic.

That is a classic. Only ever saw it once but still remember it well. Wasn't it silent?

Mine was ROTJ.

[Eric Mc]

It wasn't silent but I think there was no dialogue.

[drmcw]

Bambi late 50's I'd guess. But why would they still have been showing it then (released in 1942 I think)? I guess because it still filled seats.

[Halmyre]

drmcw said:

Bambi late 50's I'd guess. But why would they still have been showing it then (released in 1942 I think)? I guess because it still filled seats.

I think Disney had a policy of withdrawing films and then re-releasing them at various intervals - someone made a comment earlier about seeing The Jungle Book some time after its release. You never used to see a Disney film on television either.

[Matt_N]

Home Alone 2 Lost in New York.

We went for a friends birthday, a load of 10 year olds loaded into his Dad’s Volvo 940 estate with seats in the boot

[stevensdrs]

Went to the Saturday Matinee showing for kids most weeks in the early 1960s where they did a double feature for a tanner, 6d in old money, mostly Westerns and a lot of John Wayne, James Stewart etc. I could not for the life of me name any one of the numerous films I saw. The first film my dad took me to was Thunderball and I also remember going to the cinerama to see How the West was Won and the Sound of Music.

[Cotty]

I remember seeing The Rescuers which came out in 1977, that would have put me about six years old.

[marcosgt]

DocJock said:

Thunderball.

Not 100% sure, I may have seen kids films earlier, but my earliest memory is Thunderball and Goldfinger as a double bill in a cinema in Windsor.

M

[AshVX220]

Halmyre said:

drmcw said:

Bambi late 50's I'd guess. But why would they still have been showing it then (released in 1942 I think)? I guess because it still filled seats.

I think Disney had a policy of withdrawing films and then re-releasing them at various intervals - someone made a comment earlier about seeing The Jungle Book some time after its release. You never used to see a Disney film on television either.

Indeed, same for me seeing Bambi around '75 or '76, Disney used to do a 7 year (I think) rotation of the classics.

[Alex]

marcosgt said:

Not 100% sure, I may have seen kids films earlier, but my earliest memory is Thunderball and Goldfinger as a double bill in a cinema in Windsor.

M

The first Bond I saw at the cinema was The Spy Who Loved Me. Love it to this day. After seeing it, I was desperate to see the DB5 in Goldfinger, and eventually got to see it in a double-bill with On Her Majesty's Secret Service at our local cinema in Stone, Staffs (now long gone).