Originally Posted By wonderingalice Alright all you "re-released Mary Poppins" poopers! *LOL* MY mommy took me and a little girlfriend to see "Mary Poppins" at the beginning of it's FIRST release in So. Cal. (Van Nuys, I think... I was six years old - can't expect me to remember THAT much ;-). The theater was so swamped that we had to wait in line outside for the previous showing to wrap-up before getting our chance to see the magic. We went crazy for Mary! And yes... That's my earliest movie recollection.
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove Ah, youngsters.... My first movie memory is 101 Dalmations, from '61. I would've been a robust kindegartner at the time... Cruella DeVil scared me to death. Period.
Originally Posted By DlandJB The first movie I saw in the theater was Mary Poppins. I was 3. In first grade they brought in "Holiday Inn" for us to watch around Christmas and I remember being absolutely enchanted with it - especially the fireworks dance.
Originally Posted By DlandJB I saw "Mary Poppins" in the theater (a re-release, I'm not THAT old)>> OUCH!
Originally Posted By wonderingalice ^^ *LOL* Wanna gang up on 'em? I'm about three years older than you, but I'll be we can clobber 'em! ;-)
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I'm enough of a fossil that my MP viewing was the original release as well.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 Wizard of Oz on TV. I hid behind the couch because the witch scared the bejeebers out of me. I was probably 7 or 8. I saw The Sound of Music at the local "drive in." My Dad immediately fell asleep. When he heard the wedding music it woke him up and he said "now how do you get out of this place?" He assumed that it must be the end
Originally Posted By Lake Nona I remember seeing Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in a movie house in Denver in 1973.My first movie with my brother and mom.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 Forgot.........I also saw Mary Poppins, first release at the Movie Theater I had the Mary Poppins doll with 2 outfits. She was best friends with my Tinkerbell doll
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy This reminded me of an anecdote online I just love from RetroCrush's "The 100 Scariest Movie Moments", shared by TV producer David Kesterson: ------------------------- The Movie "Psycho". Year: 1960, Place: Barbers Point, Hawaii. Naval base. I was 4 years old, my sister was 7 years old, and my brother was 11. My beloved mother was in the naval hospital having an operation to restore her hearing, after being stone deaf for 8 years. It was visiting hours when we got there, the nurse at the front desk informed my father that children were not allowed in the rooms. My brother pipes up "Dad it's OK. I will take Sue and Dave to the movie, on the base, it's Walt Disney's 'Snow White'. Well my crying stopped right away, it would be my first movie ! So off we went with my Dad's blessing and money for snacks, too. I was excited beyond words, as we settled down in our seats I gazed all around me, up at the beautiful ceiling and just over all the "MAGIC" that would be my first movie experience. The room was a buzz with people talking (strange there were no other children in the theatre). All of a sudden the lights dimmed and the room fell silent, chills ran down my body as the screen lit up and the movie started. Please keep in mind I am 4 years old and can't read, believing I was seeing Walt Disney. Well it wasn't. It was "Psycho"! Long story short, 2 weeks later my father took us to the Hospital on the way he said he was so proud how we have been behaving, he was going to let us go back to the movie, this week it was Walt Disney's "Pinocchio." I Flipped out ,Screaming and crying and begging him not to make me go. My dad looked up at my brother and asked him "What was going on". my brother fessed up and my dad explained what really was going on. Then he took me, and I saw a real Walt Disney movie, Not the one a woman gets hacked to death. <a href="http://www.retrocrush.com/scary/01.html" target="_blank">http://www.retrocrush.com/scar y/01.html</a> LOL! Poor li'l guy!
Originally Posted By Labuda Star Wars, I think. The original. I know I saw it when I was VERY young, but it made an impression. Yeah, I'm a Star Wars Geek, and proud of it - though not as big a geek as those like Mr. Smedley or vbdad.
Originally Posted By DlandJB LOL - TDG that is some story. I can't imagine what a 4 year old would do with "Psycho" I still can't handle it!
Originally Posted By wonderingalice <<Trip 'em with our walkers! >> And bop 'em with our canes! ;-) *LMAO* TDG!! I loved scary movies as a kid (older than 4, though) but it took me YEARS to finally see "Psycho" - not because I was too scared, but because every time my mom would try to wake me up to catch it with her on a Saturday night on TV (Mom and I used to go to thrillers together all the time in the '60s), I wouldn't budge. Or I'd get up and join her in the living room and then fall right back to sleep. *LOL* I think I was around 30 before I finally saw the thing!
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <Huh, and here I thought you were around your mid-30s, Dabob2.> Sadly, add a decade and you're there. My Psycho story is this: I was about 12 and they were playing Psycho on the old "4:30 movie" in the afternoon. It was a stormy day (seriously). My sibs were out, my Mom was in the kitchen, just me watching Psycho, alone. I had heard of this movie and how scary it was, but I was sure in my 12-year-old way that I could handle it. They get to the shower scene and... they cut it. It's clear what has happened, which is KINDA scary, but the scene itself is cut. You see "mother" come in to the room, and the next thing you see, Janet Leigh is dead on the floor. So I think I've just seen the famous shower scene from Psycho, and survived it. I'm feelin' brave. Same thing when Martin Balsam gets it. "Mother" approaches, and then it gets cut and Balsam is dead. At this point I'm feelin' REAL brave. This movie is nothin' to someone so obviously monumentally brave as I. Finally, they get to the point where Vera Miles walks into the basement and approaches the old woman sitting in the wheelchair. "Mrs. Bates? Mrs. Bates?..." At this point they didn't cut anything. The wheelchair turns around, you see the smiling skull with the wizened skin and wig, and I am scared witless. Completely witless. And I no longer trust the 4:30 movie.
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove TDG....your "Psycho" story...awwww. That is so sad! But there's other points that intrigued me: Barber's Point and your mother's hearing loss. We were stationed at Pearl City naval housing in 63-66 and my mom suffered from otisclerosis. Unfortunately, her hearing could never be corrected. Aloha!
