General Discussion : What is your earliest movie memory?

[Hopscotch]

I figured this would be a neat little topic because having just stumbled upon my first I've been given the most warm sensation of joy and nostalgia. My earliest memory of any movie is that of the Disney short Peter and the Wolf from 1946. Now I don't remember much about it other than that my whole family was there and that I loved it, and although the vision is vague it is one of my fondest childhood memories nonetheless; right up their with The Gingerbread Man, snow tunnels, and riding a bike. I'm not sure how many of you really watched movies as a kid, but it was always a favorite experience of mine. With my parents introducing me to the likes of W.C. Fields, John Wayne, Gary Cooper and James Stewart early on, I grew up with a deep appreciation for the art that I still hold onto today.

So what is your earliest movie memory? When did you fellow movie lovers get your first taste of the magic?

[suman.austin]

My earliest memory of movies in the theaters was Hard Target and True Lies during which time I was about the age 4 or 5. These are one of the few movies which I remember the whole family watching. Later I remember a few memorable moments of Dante's Peak, Dunston Checks In and some more. I used to like those movies very much then, now I guess my tastes have changed a little bit.

[frederic_g54]

I have no clear recollection of the 1st film I saw, but I remember visiting
my grandparents every weekend. Apart from some family videos and
this David Copperfield magic show (now lying around my house
somewhere), I used to watch the following 4 films... repeatedly:

- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- The Ten Commandments (both dubbed in french, though Roger Rabbit is hilarious in french)
- Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob
- La Grande Vadrouille

and let's not forget the collection of dreadful films like "Baby's Day Out", "Dunston Checks In",
"The Power Rangers Movie"...goosh

"Jumanji" used to scare me, “Daylight” aswell for some reason, probably the
images of the blazing fire…either that or Stallone’s speech impediment



“eeeuauuaeuehueueuauaaauahuah cupcakes”

[td888]

The first film I can remember (in the cinema) is Pinkeltje (little Pinky in english). It's about a little guy (the size of a pinky) who has all kind of adventures. The movie is based on a children's book with the same name.

All I can remember from the movie is Pinkeltje flying ayway in an air-balloon. I'm curious to see it again, the last time was 30 years ago...

http://www.criticker.com/film/Pinkeltje/

[Stain]

You kids, you kids.

My earliest movie memory, near as I can figure, is being shown something at a drive-in (remember those?) when I was a tiny child by my parents. I am not sure what it was, but I think it was Bambi.

[Hopscotch]

and let's not forget the collection of dreadful films like "Baby's Day Out", "Dunston Checks In",
"The Power Rangers Movie"...goosh

I used to love those, especially Dunston. Also Petes Dragon used to be a favorite if anyone remembers that.

[miss jesus]

Yep, my earliest distinct movie memory was seeing Bambi at the one-screen theater in my hometown. It was unbelievably big and colorful. My parents love movies but we almost never went the theater. The only other time I went to that one was on a school trip to see Pinocchio, and then another to see Song of the South.

There was a drive-in the next town over, but I didn't get to go there for another few years when my parents decided to take us kids to see Return of the Jedi there. I liked the Star Wars movies when I was a kid, and I remember it was a chilly night, and the beams from our flashlights lighting up the dust from the gravel parking lot after the show and making us feel like we had light sabres.

I also remember seeing a Special Presentation!! of Superman on television, and staying up past my bedtime to watch Wrath of Khan on TV.

My parents didn't really shy away from showing us many movies when we were kids--there was a very short list of films we were forbidden to see, and most of the time it was because they were horror films that would give us nightmares. Another of my earliest memories was watching Blade Runner over dinner. (We had a Beta and VHS.) I remember I had a hard time eating my beloved spaghetti when Roy put Hannibal's eyes out, but boy did I love that movie. I still do. Same deal with Dune. I was really floored by what unique and complete worlds they made in those movies, and they made a deep impression on me.

A lot of my movie memories from back then are of much older films, because we always watched Matinee at the Bijou on Sundays. So there was a lot of crazy old horror and sci fi like King Kong, Flash Gordon, and stuff with giant stop-motion dinosaurs.

[KGB]

Heh.

I can't say what was the first film I ever saw. I do have some memories of my early years before leaving Argentina when my grandmother used to take me to see old Disney films in the Los Angeles cinema (that was it's name), in the center of Buenos Aires. It had a Carrousell indoors and paintings on the walls, and although it was one floor above ground for some reason I always thought it was on the top of some skyscraper. It closed recently.

I saw there a lot of classic Disney films, and also some new films. For some reason I still remember the first film we ever rented, on VHS (Jim Carrey's 'The Mask'), and I remember we rented 'The Little Rascals' about thirty times. My favourite film as a child was 'Space Jam', a favorite of so many kids of my generation* . The film that completely blew my mind as a kid was when my mom left me alone in the cinema at the age of seven to go see some stuff, I watched 'Fantasia 2000' by myself.

*Speaking of 'Space Jam', recently together with a group of friends, given the assignment of analyzing any piece of art given the subjects we studied along the year, we managed to convinced our professor that 'Space Jam' made reference to the Dada and Surrealist movment as well as the theories of Foucault, Freud, Marx and Zygmunt Bauman. When we were criticized that we were mocking the assignment, our defense was that the mockery was in it's essence a manifestation of our acknowledgment of the subjects given that we were liberating ourself from the panoptic eye of Foucault by defying authority as well as manifesting our imagination in the most Breton-esque of ways. And once again, 'Space Jam' proved the world that anything is possible, if you just spread your wings and believe you can fly.

[Luna6ix]

it was either edward scissorhands or leprachaun

[Bojangles]

Bambi.