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Do any of you remember the very first movie you went to see BY YOURSELF? I think mine was The Golden Voyage of Sinbad.
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in england - some posters would remember this - we had "Saturday Morning pictures" - basically a cinema full of kids up to 16. the screenings were cheaply made kids films and episodes.
first film on my own wouldve been Where Eagles dare. saw it with parents on release and then went back on my own on a later rerun at a cinema a 30-min bus ride away - i was about 12 i think. and i stayed and watched it twice. you could in those days. which wouldve been fine except dad had come up to the bus stop to meet me and wasnt impressed i was so late!!
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Dec 5, 2017 - 2:10 AM
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Thor
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I can't remember what my very first movie was (neither that I saw alone or with someone else), but I DO vividly remember going to the movies ALONE in my later childhood years. In my hometown, the local cinema would sometimes have Saturday matinees where they showed older films, and I was often the ONLY person in attendance. Perhaps one or two others. So not only did I go the movies alone (between ages 8-12), I was also often alone in the whole theatre.
Some of these older films were Scandinavian and Norwegian things most of you have never heard of, but also some international things -- I saw several of those FLIPPER and SKIPPY movies, for example, and was an AVID fan of old Johnny Weissmüller TARZAN movies. I was fascinated with Weissmüller, being both a real-life athlete/swimmer as well as an actor.
Of course, these days I often go to the movies alone, whether press screenings or regular screenings (of movies I've missed in the press screenings).
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I have a feeling I went to see The 7th Voyage of Sinbad on my own on one of it's many revivals at my local village cinema. I'll have seen it with a parent or uncle, but because I had this strange habit of wanting to see favourite films over and again (long before the advent of home video), the next few times would have been repeated viewings on my own.
Oh, and they used to twin THIS film with Seven Brides for Seven Brothers! Obviously I was more entertained when they stuck it on with Jason and the Argonauts, and altogether more satisfying pairing..
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While I don't have any clear memories of when I went, I am often told the first movie I saw in a theater was Disney's adaptation of Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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