What was the first film you ever saw in a cinema?

South Pacific with my parents

Wild in the Country starring Elvis Presley

We used to go to a Saturday morning cinema Minors Club for children , they always showed a bit of Flash Gordon, it was scary and always with a cliff hanger that made you want to go back the next week !

Saturday morning pictures lots of cowboy films and yes Flash Gordon.

Dr Doolittle, starring Rex Harrison. I was probably about 9. A neighbour took me. I thought the Push me-Pull you was fantastic

I can’t remember it, but it was Bambi. My dad took me whilst my mum was in hospital after giving birth to my sister.

My mother told me that I cried all the way through 'Lassie Come Home' can't remember the film except it was about a lovely dog.

I can’t remember if it was my first, probably not, but my first memory is going to South Pacific with my Nan and us taking our hot water bottles with us to have on our knees

Davy Crocket. My Dad took my sister & Me to a matinee. The queue was right around the block. I really enjoyed it until 'he died at the Alamo'. Then it was tears all the way home.

I'm pretty sure it was Bambi at this tiny, old cinema which is no longer there. That was around 1957. My mother took me to a movie at least once a week for years because we had no TV. I saw Fantasia and all the Disney movies, the musicals, Seven Brides etc. and all the epics, 10 Commandments, King of Kings, the list was endless. Then anything with a U certificate was fair game, even if it was an adults' film, and that included a few war movies.

The first one that sticks in my mind was Quo Vadis, a sword and sandals fest with Robert Taylor (adored Robert Taylor), Peter Ustinov and Deborah Kerr. I went to see it with my dad and we shared a small box of Black Magic. Christians were fed to lions, Rome burned, Nero fiddled and Robert Taylor saved the day! What was not to like? I got a gold star for writing about it in my English class at school!

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,i still love it.
As an adult you pick up things you were too young to understand.

I think the first was 'Jungle Book'. The whole family went and I remember one of my brothers being scared of Shere Khan the tiger, whereas I was petrified by the snake. Even now it gives me the creeps.

We were never taken to the cinema

Bambi ,taken by my mother and older sister. I cried and it still makes me sad every time I think about it!

The Comancheros with John Wayne. I think I was about 11. Must have been one Dad wanted to see.

Bambi.

Bambi.

Mine was also Summer Holiday at the ABC cinema in Derby. I would only have been about 5.

Another one for Bambi - I cried too.

The King and I with Yul Brynner.

Disneys “Cinderella”

Kalamazoo

I think it was called ‘The Big Circus’, but all I can remember was a man walking across the Niagara Falls on a tightrope.

I went with a friend and her mum, I was only about 6, the mum gave me the cinema ticket to hold, I dropped it and spent the whole film fretting I had lost it and would get into trouble!

I think Finian’s Rainbow at the cinema was the first film remember. I was taken by my grandmother. After that I went quite often with friends. When I was a lot smaller she took me with her to watch Jacques Tati films in the afternoon which bored me witless but she didn’t have a babysitter (I stayed with her often). 😵‍💫