in the "picture house"....

I remember seeing "Zulu" aged 6, me ald fella took me and my brother to see it, in Birkenhead, if I remember right.

6 years old, how did he get me in to see that? ;-)

My next cinematic experience was the film "Waterloo", fantastic and dark....

Don't Laugh......Wizard of Oz, first on the Pictures was a disney filem :p I was still dead ard as a kid though :p

me too...Wizard of oz

and its still me fav... i watch it every time its on

Still can't remember.:p

The first film I went to see was 'BAMBI', I think it was on the Odeon in London Road, another one was 'THIS IS THE ARMY' - a musical, it was on the Curzon in Old Swan. I was dragged along 'cos my mum wanted to see it, still remember the title song though.

Likewise, SM. Me ma dragged me to see 'South Pacific'.

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A few years later I dragged her to see 'A Hard Day's Night'.

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By '200 Motels' I was on me own. :lol:

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I'm gonna' sound as old as the hills here .. !! .. but I remember my cousin taking me to see Zorro (the original one !!) :eek: it was on at a local cinema in Anfield.

... but I was only about 4 at the time I hasten to add !!

In the 1960s I clearly remember my mum taking me to see 'The Parent Trap' starring Hayley Mills.
Also we went to see all the Cliff Richard and Beatles films.

Of course we went to see The Sound Of Music' on the Odeon :) I think everybody did at that time !

The other one that sticks in my mind is 'The Greatest Story Ever Told'
I went to see it on the Abbey cinema Wavertree, I went with about 100 other kids !! it was organised for busmens' kids. My dad wasn't a bus driver, but my best mate's dad was and she got me an ticket.

Also I was a member of the Saturday Minors (minors as in children and not miners that go down a pit !! :unibrow: ) club at the Carlton cinema in Tuebrook. :) every Saturday morning we would see a different film.

I have a confession to make, it appears according to me mam, that my first film was that one with the baby elephant with big ears that could fly, Disney???...

Apparently I was 4 and a half, the babysitter took us to see it in New Brighton....


Whats it called?, Digby?, no that was the giant dog....

Help me out gang :rolleyes:

Also I was a member of the Saturday Minors (minors as in children and not miners that go down a pit !! :unibrow: ) club at the Carlton cinema in Tuebrook. :) every Saturday morning we would see a different film.


The saturday club !!!!! :)

All the ald Abbott and Costellos and the 3 stooges... they were the days eh? :O

Whats it called?, Digby?, no that was the giant dog....
Help me out gang :rolleyes:

Is this the one, DUMBO? ...Go on say it... who are you callin' Dumbo? :badgrin:

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Cheers mate. :)

Thats the one SM, thanks mate :) .

I kept seeing JUMBO, but you set me straight :unibrow:

1977.
Any ideas.......

Yes, my mum started me off being cool.
She took me to see Star Wars at the tender age of four (me that is, not my mum).
My payback is that I'm now trying to explain the new prequels to her!! :confused:

1977.
Any ideas.......

Yes, my mum started me off being cool.
She took me to see Star Wars at the tender age of four (me that is, not my mum).
My payback is that I'm now trying to explain the new prequels to her!! :confused:


1977 I was 11 or twelve, it was the summer I discovered punk rock :) , Star wars was 76, was'nt it, IIRC?.

Cracking film by der way :)

Errrrrrrrr, Santa Claus the movie at Allerton Pictures with my mum. and don't skit me or i will tell her .

Santa Claus the movie LOL :p

Star wars was 76, was'nt it, IIRC?

Nope, deffo 1977 I've just checked me DVD box!!

It was probably one of the Lassie movies in the Paladium when I was a kid. I don't recall too much about it, but my mum told me that there was a really sad part in the film when it looked like Lassie was going to die and I just bawled out crying
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I'm gonna' sound as old as the hills here .. !! .. but I remember my cousin taking me to see Zorro (the original one !!) :eek: it was on at a local cinema in Anfield. . . .

Hi Lindy

The first "Zorro" was the "Mark of Zorro" in 1920 and I don't think you mean that one do you? Maybe you mean the 1957 film?

I can remember in the 1950's before we emigrated to the U.S. in 1955 being taken to see Disney's "Snow White" when I was a nipper and "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" in Garston. As a boy in the US I saw "The Ten Commandments," "Wee Geordie," and "The Lone Ranger" with a first date!

Chris

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Hi Lindy

The first "Zorro" was the "Mark of Zorro" in 1920 and I don't think you mean that one do you? Maybe you mean the 1957 film?

I can remember in the 1950's before we emigrated to the U.S. in 1955 being taken to see Disney's "Snow White" when I was a nipper and "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" in Garston. As a boy in the US I saw "The Ten Commandments," "Wee Geordie," and "The Lone Ranger" with a first date!

Chris

Yes, that would be about right .. I was age 4 in 1957.

I can remember in the 1950's before we emigrated to the U.S. in 1955

The difference from Liverpool to the USAi n 1955 must have been amazing. Going from Victorian to the space age.

Mary Poppins at the Odean Allerton - cried me leg off for a week after cos she went away.

Zulu was cool. I watched it three times as a kid. I loved the film as a whole, but was most fascinated by the dancing girls in the beginning. If you get my drift lads (nudge nudge, wink wink!):celb (6):

Cant remember!! Between: A Bridge too far (Carlton, tuebrook), Ice station Zebra (Carlton ), Spiderman/Sinbad and the eye of the tiger-double bill (Odeon, London rd), Bambi (Abbey, Wavertree)

Likewise, SM. Me ma dragged me to see 'South Pacific'.

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004CK1V.02._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpgI took my wife, when we were courting, to see 'South Pacific' and she fell in love with "Bali Hai". I explained that the island of Bali Hai was actually Moorea in French Polynesia, which I had visited as a bell boy on a world cruise aboard Cunards Caronia. I told her that the only place you could see that silhouette was from Cooks Bay. I said if she married me I would take her to see it. Well she married me and it only took me 30 years to keep that particular promise. :)

We always had a TV and I can't remember life without one, so seeing the first film did not stick in the memory. It was at the Park Palace in Mill Stret, the Saturday Matinee. I remember the original Batman with Charlie Chan and the Three Stooges. The cinema was closed down in 1961 and the building is still there. The first colour film stuck in my mind. It was at the matinee. It had sailing ships in it and I thought it brilliant. Apart from that I can't remember anything else.

I took my wife, when we were courting, to see 'South Pacific' and she fell in love with "Bali Hai". I explained that the island of Bali Hai was actually Moorea in French Polynesia, which I had visited as a bell boy on a world cruise aboard Cunards Caronia. I told her that the only place you could see that silhouette was from Cooks Bay. I said if she married me I would take her to see it. Well she married me and it only took me 30 years to keep that particular promise. :)
Ahh! That's class.:PDT_Aliboronz_11:
My missus is kipping on the couch at the moment. I'll show her this in the morning. No doubt she'll throw it back in my face and use it as an excuse to buy her something to prove my love:rolleyes: :)

Ahh! That's class.:PDT_Aliboronz_11:
My missus is kipping on the couch at the moment. I'll show her this in the morning. No doubt she'll throw it back in my face and use it as an excuse to buy her something to prove my love:rolleyes: :)

Either that Davey, or it'll be you kippin' on the couch friday night :D


Is it pronounced Couch or Sofa in Luton :D :celb (23):

Either that Davey, or it'll be you kippin' on the couch friday night :D


Is it pronounced Couch or Sofa in Luton :D :celb (23):
It's couch in our house, but my lad reckons some oh his mates call it sofa.
By the way, if you google and do an image search for "couch" with Safe Search switched off, the first page results are full of porno images!:unibrow:

The difference from Liverpool to the USA n 1955 must have been amazing. Going from Victorian to the space age.

To use the now-common expression, my Mum and I were gobsmacked when we found that the supermarket doors in the U.S. opened automatically.

Chris

The first feature lenght movie I remember going to see was the 'The Third Man' with Joseph Cotten and featured Orson Wells as Harry Lime and I was about eight or nine years of age. I think me mam took me to see it on the Derby. Me aunt, (dads sister) worked as an usherette and I don't think me mam paid to get in. I remember it becuase of the music, what a strange sound the Zither made to my ear or it was probably the crap sound system and accoustics in the Derby:) . I think the first movie I ever 'bunked in' to see was 'The Crimson Pirate' with Burt Lancaster.

To use the now-common expression, my Mum and I were gobsmacked when we found that the supermarket doors in the U.S. opened automatically.The thing that my wife found the most surprising was the size of the cars. She thought they were big and ugly. The other thing that surprised her was being able to get a phone installed the day after we ordered it. By the way, we still have the original number.

To use the now-common expression, my Mum and I were gobsmacked when we found that the supermarket doors in the U.S. opened automatically.

Chris

I first went there in 1975 after the UK had caught up a lot and it was still way, way, way ahead of us. Their system is better that is the secret.

The first time i came here in 1976 we saw a Volvo 246, my wife said they make Volvos small over here, I said no, it's the same as mine. Couldn't convince her, here they did look relatively small in '76, they still made real American cars back then, but back in the Uk they looked relatively big.

The first time i came here in 1976 we saw a Volvo 246, my wife said they make Volvos small over here, I said no, it's the same as mine. Couldn't convince her, here they did look relatively small in '76, they still made real American cars back then, but back in the Uk they looked relatively big.

I rented a Chrysler Fleetwood Broughham or something. It was as long as the treet with truck engine in it.

The standrad of living in the UK has caught up the USA. Where they score is in the size of the houses they have. Ours are rabbit hutches. This need not be the case if planning and land distribution is tackled in the UK. An artifical land shortage ramps up land prices to silly levels.

BLOODY CONSUMERS..HANG THE BLOODY LOT OF 'EM.. aye Watership you energy efficient fascist ? ;)

Did I say fascist ?..oops sorry yer Liverpudlian yer ... :rolleyes:

It was a war film about 5 brothers that went to sea with the USA i belive it was called the sullivan brothers it was showen on the Gem about 1950.
Fergie

I remember that one, they changed the law because of it, so that brothers can not serve on the same ship. All 5 were lost .

http://www.castletown.com/Brothers.htm

That is a webpage about it, showing the ship that was named after them.

first one i remember seeing at the cinema was Hook at the woolton

I remember that one, they changed the law because of it, so that brothers can not serve on the same ship. All 5 were lost .

http://www.castletown.com/Brothers.htm

That is a webpage about it, showing the ship that was named after them.

Thanks Shytalk great webpage to read about the history of the sullivan family i can still picture the ending of the film when the brothers were walking up a stairway to haven thanks again.
Fergie

The first films that stick in my mind were on TV- Killdozer and Duel, in the 70s. Earliest cinema memories are of Digby, Dumb0 (obvioulsy not on release!), Jaws, The Rescuers

my first film was The Song of Bernadette on the Commodore in 1945,
just watched it again on dvd
gregs dad

On the pictures I think it was The Poseiden Adventure. I remember Jaws coming to the Carlton on Green Lane (in 1976) and they kept it on for three weeks. I went to see it on the three continuous Fridays :)

It wasn't the first film I saw on TV but I'll never forget the effect Hitchcock's Psycho had on me. I saw it in 1975 when I was nine and it scared the beejesus out of me :shock:

My earliest fave film I recall was "Jason & The Argonauts".Brilliant film even to this day.
My early cinema one was James Bond "Diamonds are forever" then Jaws then Grease and then Pink Floyd the wall.:PDT11

First film I remember seeing, watching it properly, was Ghostbusters, my auntie had it on video and I watched it every time we went to her house :unibrow:

First one I remember seeing at the cinema, naturally, was Ghostbusters II.

Got them both on DVD now and still watch 'em regularly :PDT11

As kids we went to cinemas all over Liverpool,if we were at a relatives we would go to a cinema near them.The oldest film ,or rather the first film I have a clear memory of is "On an Island with You",a lush forties swimming musical with Esther Williams and Peter Lawford.The colours were so vivid that I was almost blinded.The saturday serials were my favourites though,Johnny Mackbrown westerns,Barney Oldfield,racing driver,Flash Gordon and a host of others.We didn't realise that these serials were ancient,most of those mentioned were made in the thirties, we thought they were made every week ,just for us!
Magic days,gone forever.

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1982, I was 2/3 years old... :PDT_Aliboronz_11:

My first film was Bugsy Malone, i went with friends. Couple days later my cousins asked me to go with them, couple days later my cousin and i were at the Saturday show and she won 2 tickets to see it, and you've guessed it, i went with her haha. Brilliant film, my son had a part in the school play of it!

I can,t remember my first film but I do remember a foreign film on telly once when I was ten and we had just been reunited with our parents (don,t ask) and we were all together for the first time. The film was about kids and family life and I just cried and cried. p.s. I got sent away again from my folks, but that,s another story.