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Topic: Where, when and what was playing at your very first Cinema experience?
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Maurizio Di Cintio
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 977
From: Ortona, Italy
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted January 17, 2014 04:53 AM
My oldest movie going-related memory dates back to 1975: I was 5 and I had already been taken to circus shows a few times, although, for some reason, I knew there was something called "cinema" I hadn't experienced yet; in fact I kept asking what it was and the only answer I used to get was that is consisted in a darkened place where I might be scared. At some point that year my parents resolved to let me try the "thril of a cinema going experience; the film was a live-action free adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood which I really recall next to nothing about. But at the end of the show, my father, who had worked as an assistant projectionist when he was very young, asked the staff of that cinema to be allowed to visit the boot and of course he took me with him. That was my first "close encounter" with a 35 mm projector, and truly amazed me. A year later, when at school, we had regular monthly screenings of cartoons on 16 mm: needless to say I used to sit very close to the "beast" and challenge the operator with never ending questions but he never got upset for this. Also my first school year coincided with my first out-of-family birthday party; a class mate of mine, named Filippo who lived just a few hundreds meters away from my home, had this party and... he had a toy projector "Cinemax K 6" (the same as mine) with plenty of 60 m digests and he screened several Tarzans, Zorro's and Westerns during that party. And perhaps this memory is even more important as regards our hobby, than the other ones.
From those moments onward I have never stopped buying new films, projectors and cameras, shooting film (which is my primary interest), editing etc. It's probably one of the very few consistent interests throughout my life. And something I could hardly do without.
-------------------- Maurizio
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