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Bill Phelps
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From: USA
Registered: Jan 2009

posted January 16, 2014 04:49 PM

My earliest memory at the movies was in 1974, I was 6 years old, HERBIE RIDES AGAIN at the local mall cinema (4 screens) that is no longer there.

And in the mall outside the theatre surrounded by red velvet rope was...HERBIE The real thing! I can still remember walking around that car and talking to him!

It really made an impression on me. Great movie too!

Bill [Smile]

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Panayotis A. Carayannis
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From: Athens,Greece
Registered: Jul 2008

posted January 17, 2014 04:39 AM

My earliest memory is from the mid fifties,being five or six years old,of Gene Kelly fencing Saul Gorss' pants down,in THE THREE MUSKETEERS.Only fifty years later I would become the proud owner of a gorgeous 8mm print!

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Maurizio Di Cintio
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From: Ortona, Italy
Registered: Jan 2004

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.

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Maurizio

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William Fleming
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From: United Kingdom
Registered: Jul 2011

posted January 17, 2014 05:03 AM

1978 Jaws playing in our living room back in Northern Ireland with all local kids round to watch it. A movie that i love to this day because of the memories of a great night we had there was a bunch of freaked out kids never to put foot in the sea again [Smile]

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