What was the first movie you can remember going to see in a theater? Not broadcast on TV or using any type of video recording media. I mean a real building made for projecting film on a screen.

For some reason I thought about this on the drive to the folks today. I went with my mother to see "West Side Story" in 1961. I was only 5, but remember both the film and the theater very clearly. Grandma took Mom and her sister to live musical theater when they were young. I think she was unconciously doing the same thing with me.

What did you see?

Member's films

1961- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055614/?ref_=nv_sr_1

1963- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056869/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

1967- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061852/?ref_=nv_sr_1 and 1965- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059143/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 (double feature)

1970- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066206/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

1977- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/ (x4)

1994- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110357/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

1999- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120915/

2002- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145487/?ref_=nv_sr_1

I saw Patton at a drive inn in 1970!

Our theater was one of those old classics from the 30's-40's with the velvet curtains and a full balcony.

Star wars! I even got a lame looking rainbow lightsaber.

Our family was big on going to the drive in theater. The first movie I remember seeing was Hitchcock's "The Birds" ('63)...I was about 4 yrs old and in the back seat.

It seems the first indoor theater movie was "Planet of the Apes"....(googles...yeah...'68)

Yeah! The Phantom Menace was the one for me. It svcked, but I sure liked the popcorn. Being four at the time, that's the only thing that could really hold my attention anyway, aside from the lightsaber duel at the end.

Interesting question...

I want to say, Gargoyles the movie in 1995. It's the first one I can remember at least.

The first movie I remember going to was the first Star Wars in 1977. I may have been to a movie before, but that movie made a big enough impression that I don't remember any before it.

We're already showing a big member age range just in the first few posts- films between 1961 and 1999.

I'm going to start a list in the OP.

I the first one I remember was Spider-Man from 2002, I was around 5 or 6.

We had 2 and both were the same, all done out with the fancy moulding, and very very old leather seats stuffed with horse hair, so uncomfortable. When we used go to the movies when we were kids you would see 2 films a leader film some cartoons, then interval and you'd go out and buy your popcorn and ice creams then the main feature, if its the first film id seen i think it was Norman Wisdom in the Milkman, the main feature was Disneys Jungle Book. I remember because i was in the balcony and sitting in the front seats and nearly went over the edge.

I can't find anything on these 2.

Ill correct that the film was The Early Bird, he played a milkman.

Linked.

The Lion King in 1994 with a friend's birthday party. I can't remember setting foot in a theater before that.

On the drive home from the folk's house tonight I listened to an interview on NPR with http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792556/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr37, one of the 2 brothers who wrote the songs for The Jungle Book, Mary Poppins, Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, and others. He told the story of going to Las Vegas to try to get Louis Prima (King Louie) and his band (the monkeys) to be in the movie.

They also wrote http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW9jrgjJsQM and the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkR7u_sOtHI. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You

I'm not 100% sure, but I think it might have been Phantom Menace. I recall falling asleep during that movie to.

It was either that, or this one really artsy cartoon movie that I don't remember the name of. All I remember from that is that it involved a really well animated deer running through a snowy forest as a fire broke out, and I think some kind of green ghost monster.

That was a good experience.

Last film i saw at the drive inn was Dragonslayer, then they bulldozed it and its a housing estate.

Pretty much exactly what I was going to write. The first thing I remember seeing was the queue stretching around the building!

I went to that on my first date with a hot little Phys Ed teacher.

Dads rule because: first film I saw with my dad was once again A New Hope (though it certainly wasn't called that back then, it was Star Wars and that's all there is to it), whereas previously me mam took us to see Disney's Snow White and some thing about an Otter. Yeah, yeah Snow White and all, but would you take three boys to watch it?

Snow White was 1937, and I have no idea what the otter thing is, so you get counted as Star Wars.

OP list updated to this point. Good night/morning.

That puts it in a different context: I think as a nine-year-old, that was the last thing on my mind. I just had to check that my first film wasn't http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings_%281978_film%29, but that was the following year.

Jurassic Park. That movie is awesome.

a double bill of superman 1 & 2 in 1980 with the definitive Mr Reeve

"kneel before Zod"