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Topic: What was your FIRST cinema experience?
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted July 25, 2009 10:23 PM
What was your first cinema experience?
I'll go first ...
It was either 1970 or 71. We lived on Klammath Falls Air Force Base, and my dad, in between his daytime job, would work the base movie theater to bring in a few "bob". From the very first night, dad brought me up to the projection booth.
I remember being up there, with that enormous 35MM looming over me. The smell of the lubrication ... aahhhh!
I would stand up on an old box and look down out that small projection window at the audience and up at the screen.
My first film? It was double feature ...
Disney's animated "Robin Hood" and the sci-fi film, "Silent Running". Kind of a strange pairing, but Robin Hood came first.
... and I was a wee four years old!
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted July 26, 2009 09:00 AM
Hey, my wife, Stephanie A Osgood, wants to contribute as well, (her first time, way to go, wifey!).
It was a drive-in, and she saw the animated version of "101 Dalmations", a re-release, as she was six at the time, which would make this 1995. She must have been 11.
" There was an adult film on second, and my mom didn't want me to see it. There was a lot of swearing. This was in Idaho falls, Idaho, and there was a drive-in right across the street where we lived, in the "Shady Rests campground". Mom always thought it sounded like the proper name for a cemetery or rest home. I don't remember the name of the drive in. "
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Panayotis A. Carayannis
Jedi Master Film Handler
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From: Athens,Greece
Registered: Jul 2008
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posted July 26, 2009 01:56 PM
My first cinema experience is muddled in the ravages of time,(The mid-fifties,I must have been five or six then). A cartoon character (Mickey Mouse?)jumping on a row of barrels. The first film I clearly remember, about that time,is THE THREE MUSKETEERS, most probably in La Gaite cinema near our home in Alexandria,Egypt, where I was born.And the scene that most impressed my mind,was Gene Kelly fencing Saul Gorss' pants down!
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James N. Savage 3
Phenomenal Film Handler
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From: Washington, DC
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted August 01, 2009 07:24 PM
In my early years during the 60's, I have vague memories of seeing Dr. Doolittle, Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang, and some Disney's at the cinema.
But, I mostly remember my first "non-kids" movie at the cinema. The year was 1972. I was 9 years old, and I became obsessed with the promotional ads for the movie "FROGS". The add pictured a giant frog, with a human hand hanging out of it's mouth . I became so infatuated with this image (yes, I was wierd). I just kept begging and begging my dad to take me to see it (mom wouldn't, of course). He finally took me to see it at the cinema, and what a wonderful experience it was. All of my friends begged me to tell them about it, since I was the only one in my class to have seen it.
James.
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