Conference bookie::movies

    Star Wars (the first time I saw it) at White City cinema, Shrewsbury
    with my sister and dad.
    
    Rocky (the one and only) me and 6 other kids from junior high took the
    bus downtown and saw this at the Showcase Cinema, the upstairs section
    high in the back in the last row :^)
    
    
    Those 2 came to mind and bring back lovely memories, thanks
    
    Jt

    
    	"Risky Business" was the first R-rated movie I went to see,
    	with a friend, at the cinemas in downtown Milford MA [now
    	gone, BTW].  It was 1 week before my 17th birthday, and 9
    	months before his.
    
    							GTI
    

Over the last 10 years, almost all of them were in my living room on my
VCR/TV.

:^)
-Jack

    Gone With the Wind - 1968
    
    Maynard Fine Arts theatre
    
    (My sister was to do a book review and decided to see the movie
    instead.)  I was in the fifth grade and I fell in LOVE with Rhett!
    
    -s
    

    Platoon, next to a the love of my life who broke my heart by walking
    out on me ten minutes before the end.  I stayed for the "big screan 
    kill" though.  -  B'ham Odeon.
    
    Also B'ham Odeon, Holoween pt? the only time I've ever had a Cinema to
    myself, wierd.
    
    Goodfella's Metro in Basingstoke, it was a good ten minutes before me
    and the gathered company realised there was meant to be sound, I
    thought the silence was all DeNero and extreme cleverness.
    
    Birmingham Odeon.  Sneaking in behind a gang of kids to see 1001
    dalmations.
    
    B'ham ABC, now gone.  Evil dead, people really did run screaming from
    the Cinema, hystria as a spectator sport.  Those of us that were left
    clapped at the end, that really was wierd.
    
    Ghandi, b'ham odeon sat on the steps, about a zillion people in front
    of one screen.
    
    Top secret, savage island, last double bill I ever saw, the only time I
    ever saw a movies so bad I complained.  To the manager, the
    distributor, everybody.  Savage Island is the second worst film ever
    made anywhere ever (in case your interested the worst is escape to
    Helena.)  
    
    My 2p's worth, Michael williams.
    

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                     -< Do you remember where you saw... >-

    My wife thinks I'm weird, but I can often remember where I first saw a
    given movie.  For example, the note about "A Night to Remember" reminds
    me that when it came out in '58, Bobby Welch and I took the trolley in
    to Harvard Square, and the subway to Boston to see it at a theater on
    St. James St. in Park Square.  I think it was called the Park Square
    Theater.  Other recollections:
    
    	"The Longest Day"  - Metropolitan, now the Wang Center
    
    When was it called the Metropolitan, I remember when it was called the
    Music Hall.

        There are many memories but one stands out:
    
    
        Journey To The Center Of The Earth 
                                           with Pat Boone
    
        Saw it as a youngster in the theatre (where we spent most
    Saturdays) in the town square with my cousin in Paris, Ill.. 
    Also in the time frame I saw Pollyana and developed a major crush on 
    Hayley Mills.

    RE: .6  by 27748::PORTERD 
    
    >>	"The Longest Day"  - Metropolitan, now the Wang Center
    
    >When was it called the Metropolitan, I remember when it was called the
    >Music Hall.
    
    Come to think of it, you're right.  It was the Music Hall when "The
    Longest Day" was first shown.
    
    I can also rememember my grandmother taking me to see a Frances the
    talking mule picture at the RKO Keith and going on the swan boats
    afterwards.
    

    My mother took a dozen-or-so kids (myself included) to see Mary Poppins at
    the Noyo Theatre in Willits, CA.  Half way through the movie there was
    a 5.2 earthquake.  My mother, who was sitting in the row behind all us
    youngins' stood up and flung herself over all of us.  A second later a
    huge crack appeared in the center of the celing and plaster started to
    rain down all over the place.
    
    I'll never forget _that_ screening!
    
    Mary Jo
    
    P.S.  The theatre gave us all free Cokes and refunded all of our money :^)

    RE: .-1
    
    Wow, that's right up there with the night we had to walk out of
    "Alexander Nevsky" at the Brattle because of the tear gas from the
    anti-war riot oustide.
    

    I remember where I saw almost all the movies I've seen, but the most
    notable was seeing "2001: A Space Odyssey" when it was first released,
    in Cinerama in a theater in Montclair, NJ when I was 10 years old.
    It was the film that made me fall in love with the movies.  
    
    My friends were unimpressed when they joined me for my second viewing 
    at the (comparatively) tiny Bound Brook Theater for a Saturday matinee 
    the following month. :^)
    
    - Dave

    RE: .-1   by KOLFAX::WIEGLEB 
    
    Ah yes, Cinerama.  I remember taking my Mother to see "How the West Was
    Won" at the Cinerama theater on Washington St. in Boston, down in what
    became the combat zone.  She wondered where they got so many buffalo
    and I told her they were the same buffalo running around and around in
    a circle.
    
    Saw 2001 for the first time at the same theater.
    

    I know this is late, compared with other people who wrote here, but I
    couldn't resist.
    
    I saw "Pillow Talk" with Doris Day at the Radio City Music Hall, along
    with the Rocketts, with my parents as a young child.  I will never
    forget the expanse of this theater.  And I have never been there again,
    even though I've been in N.Y. many times.
    
    I saw "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" at Cinerama, in Boston as a
    high school kid on a CYO trip from Leominister to Boston.
    
    I first saw "The Sound of Music" at the Saxon Thearter in Fitchburg
    Mass, with my high school sweet heart and wife, on one of our first
    dates.
    
    I saw "The Longest Day" the the Tri-City Drive-In in Fitchburg Mass.  I
    remember this one because I was not yet 18 years old, and needed to be
    home by 1AM per my drivers license and the movie was not going to end
    on time.  I was going to stay, but my girl (same one as above) didn't
    want to chance it and we left.
    
    I wish I had seen this note earlier because this was fun.
    
    Ray
    
    

     Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and herbie the love bug both seen at the
    Skyview (?)  Drive in theatre located in Brockton Mass. I was about
    four (4) and in my pajamas. Nice Play ground though!
    				Ahh the good old days??
    					Gary

    Saw Dumbo as a child at the Fox Theater in Tulsa, OK.  I remember
    several movies there as a child because with a coupon from the paper
    and .50c you could get in.  Mom used to send us with candy purchased
    somewhere cheaper.  
    
    Life used to be so simple.
    
    Steve

     What ever happend to drive ins?? I like them even better than regular
    movie theatres. I still have a lot good memorys there  from ages 4-22.
    The food was ok. I had a pizza there once.
    				Thanks,
    					Gary

    and speaking of Drive-ins...  I remember seeing "True Grit" at the
    Plainville Drive in (in Plainville,MA). I had to be 8 or 9 (which puts
    us at around '67-'69 - is that about when it came out??)
    
    I saw it with my Mom & Dad and two older brothers. 
    
    "Take the Money & Run" (woody) came on after that - I fell asleep -
    but I remember my Parent's laughter waking me up a few times and I
    *do* remember him carving a gun out of soap and it soaping up during
    an escape attempt or something like that...  I never saw it again.
    I guess I should rent it and see if I remember right.
    
    I loved the Drive in!  How many speakers have YOU driven away with?
    
    Steve
    

    Steve;
    		Came close to a speaker a couple of times..but I wish
    I had one now. Now they don't use speakers anymore.The movie comes in
    over your car radio. 
    

    > I saw "Pillow Talk" with Doris Day at the Radio City Music Hall,
    > along with the Rocketts, with my parents as a young child.
    
    Neato! I first saw "Scrooge", the 1969 version of A Christmas Carol, at
    Radio City Music Hall with my grandparents, and had the same reaction.
    It was my first time in NYC -- first time that far from home, for that
    matter. It was also the first time I had wine; I was 9, and granddad
    let me have a sip of Mogan David.
    			Jim