I'm sure my parents took me to a few Disney films, but can't remember which ones (Lady and the Tramp rings a bell).

I remember Star Wars because of the buzz and stories my dad mentions about me and my brother re-enacting lazer gun battles when we got home, but can't say I recall the going to the cinema.

The first film I really remember is because I went with my friend, without my parents knowing. I was 5/6, he was a couple of years older.

We wanted to see Battlestar Galactica (a year after Star Wars, the pilot double episode of the tv show was released as a film here in the UK).

We raided piggy banks, left the estate, found the bus stop and made our way to the town cinema on a Saturday afternoon. (For UKers, this was Barking in Essex).

The film had already started, so we bought the ticket anyway, went in half way through, saw the second half of the film and stayed in the cinema to watch the first half of the next performance. Then we went home happy and content.

To this day my parents have no idea I did that. So this is between us, okay.

Dave

Keep yer moind aisey, Dave. There's rats in this world, to be sure, but you'll foind none here.

I think I was around 7, which would be 1953. My dad worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad so once a month he would get free passes for the family to ride the train from our small town in Ohio to Chicago. I remember seeing Kiss Me Kate (3D), and Young at Heart among others at theaters in Chicago around that time. I also remember a comedian coming on stage to entertain before the movie. Also, you could come in whenever and stay for more than one showing of the same movie.

In my home town, kids under 12 were admitted for 20 cents.

... Also, you could come in whenever and stay for more than one showing of the same movie.

In my home town, kids under 12 were admitted for 20 cents.

That reminds me of .... matrons. We had matrons in movie houses in New York City back in the '50's and 60's. They wore uniforms, carried flashlights and were utterly ruthless. If you had your feet on the seat in front of you, they'd knock 'em off. If you talked or carried on during the movie, they'd throw you out. God forbid they found you necking in the mezzanine!

Did anyone else experience that?

Believe it or not, the first movie I saw at the theater (drive-in, actually) was Star Wars in 1977. I was around 5 years old. I remember it pretty well considering how little I was. My brother fell asleep in the "way back" of our woody 70s station wagon, missed the movie, and has never forgiven himself.

Lisa

Lisa, that's just plain eerie. My first movie experience I remember was "Star Wars", I was also 5 years old, and I fell asleep halfway through it in the back window of my sisters Ford Pinto. (shivers)

Believe it or not, the first movie I saw at the theater (drive-in, actually) was Star Wars in 1977. I was around 5 years old. I remember it pretty well considering how little I was. My brother fell asleep in the "way back" of our woody 70s station wagon, missed the movie, and has never forgiven himself.

Lisa

Lisa, that's just plain eerie. My first movie experience I remember was "Star Wars", I was also 5 years old, and I fell asleep halfway through it in the back window of my sisters Ford Pinto. (shivers)

Lisa, meet your long lost brother.

Lisa, meet your long lost brother.

Like a Luke and Leia !

Like a Luke and Leia !

LOL, yeah. I guess I gave me and Aphew the wrong bodies in the old poster:



Lisa

LOL, yeah. I guess I gave me and Aphew the wrong bodies in the old poster:



Lisa

Hahahaha!!! This is nice!

Lisa, where is your body?

Hahahaha!!! This is nice!

Lisa, where is your body?

wow, your right. It's just a head growing out of Han's (Marc's) knee.

Great, now I'm going to have nightmares.

Paul looks positively fetching in that Darth Vader hoodie. Neat, Lisa, very neat.