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My first films were Dr Doolittle with Rex Harrison, and then the Jungle Book - the snakes swirling eyes scared the poop out of me for weeks afterwards, I was 28 at the time! Just kidding I was about 4 or 5 years old.

Safer, Rose - much safer!

Sue x

Sue I remember the film though i saw it on tv rather than at the pictures :)

xx

Clarence Street Mission were doing a slide show

Hi All

I know exactly what it was - Darby O'Gill and the Little People. I remember it clearly as I managed to contract nits from the cinema seat that night. Much activity in the Derbac comb department and predictable jokes about little people followed ...

I couldn't remember the film at all, so I've had a look on Google and it was apparently a Walt Disney featuring in a supporting role a very young Sean Connery.

Sue x

Bambi, then Sound of Music

LOL at George.... was it Rudy Valentino by any chance... (joking lol...but my mum was a big fan)

I can remember going to see The sound Of music. Im 50 so probably in the 60's. Cant remember if I went before that but that is the one that stands out.
Anne

Hi Rambling Rose,
I cant remember the exact film, but it was in black and white and there was a guy playing a piano at the bottom of the screen....LOL

Well I got taken to the Jacy Cartoon Cinema by my big brother when I was around 4 (mainly becuase he wanted to go and taking me meant Mum would pay). The first 'grown up cinema' was in Clacton in the pouring rain and Mary Poppins (I was bored rigid at 5 years only and with the attention span of a goldfish) I played shops in the gangway with empy sweet wrappers and the usherette fell over me in the dark much to Mum's horror.

PICTURE HOUSE IN LEITH IN EDINBURGH

GREYFRIARS BOBBY IN THE LATE 50'S AND I KEPT GOING FOR WEEKS AFTER LOL

Hi Rambling Rose,
dont know where you are ....but
the old cinema was pulled down in Prestatyn
and they now have a new cinema there which has not
long opened the shop that you spoke about is no longer there ..
i'm not one for the cinema , but grandson said it's nice inside ...
Hazelx

Mmmmmm If my memory serves me well it was either Mary poppins or Sound of music in the 60s.

i was about 7 (1940s),my mother took us to see GONE WITH THE WIND a film about 4hrs long and we where bored to death.because of that sticking in my mind i never watched that film for 40 yrs.
when i finally did i didn't realise what a great film it was

I was 5 and my mother took me to see Bambi. When Bambi lost her Mother, by all accounts I cried my eyes out and Mum had to take me out of the Cinema. She told me the Cinema was called the Little Vic in Bradford. I really don't remember it but my Mum reminded me off it often lol.

Jackie

I must have been quite young when i was taken to see the red shoes and have to say I don't remember any of it, not even the end. If it was that bad maybe I blanked it out!!

The very first movie I was ever taken to was The Red Shoes, with Moira Shearer. I remember my Mum taking me as a special treat and I never ever forgot the movie. I tried to watch it again a few months ago and turned if off before it got to the end. I think it won Acadmey Awards, was beautifully presented, had the most glorious dancing, and wonderful music. The only recollection I have of that evening was getting dressed up in a pretty dress; and the end of the movie. I had nightmares for weeks after. It truly has one of the worst endings of any movie I have every seen. My poor Mum thought it would be a real treat. Needless to say her gangly uncoordinated daughter never did turn out to be a dancer, preferred to climb trees.

00000h I remember them all....I wasn't taken to see any :-(((((( but ......:-))))))) I do remember seeing the five Pennies and staying to watch the film over and over again......before that it was umpteen other films but this one stayed in my memory.

Oooh I think it was Bambi - I was about three or four and fell asleep halfway through, so I missed Bambi's mum getting shot! I couldn't understand why all the other kids were so distressed at the end!

My sister used to take me a lot and she loooved Disney films, so I saw loads when I was really little - Snow White, Jungle Book (still love it today), Pinnochio, Cinderella and the Aristocats.

I remember dad taking me to see Zulu when I was about 8 or so (it was the second time around in the cinema I think).

First one I remember going to see was The Lion King, yep the Disney film released in 1994, I was 11 guess I might have been taken to the cinema before that but don't remember.