What was the first Disney movie you ever saw?

[Kitty 34]

Inspired by Dan's thread.

I saw Pinocchio when I was 5. I'm pretty sure that was the first time I went to a movie theater! Loved it!!!

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

The Little Mermaid

But Beauty and the Beast was the first I saw in theater.

 

[AnnaFloridaLover]

I think my first Disney movie was Bedknobs and Broomsticks. My mother took my siblings and I to the theatre and I love it! After that, I think it was Bluebeard's Ghost, Apple Dumpling Gang, Escape to Witch Mountain.

 

[wenrob]

I *think* it was Bambi but it's hard to know. I just have a memory of it before others. My grandparents took care of us for awhile and we lived in a tiny, two room house (a shack really.) In the front part there were posters of Bambi and Thumper, Dumbo with his mother and Pinnochio on a string. They stayed up in that old house for decades. When grandma passed I went down to the old house to claim them but they were gone. What I wouldn't give to have them now.

The first I remember going to go see was The Jungle Book. It was a double feature with Popeye (w/Robin Williams) at the drive in.

 

[piglet too]

That I remember, "Fox and the Hound" in theaters.

 

[wenrob]

I think my first Disney movie was Bedknobs and Broomsticks. My mother took my siblings and I to the theatre and I love it! After that, I think it was Bluebeard's Ghost, Apple Dumpling Gang, Escape to Witch Mountain.

I remember watching all of those plus Herbie the Lovebug on Sundays growing up. Apple Dumpling Gang is still one of my favorites.

 

[mom2rtk]

I remember seeing a release of Sleeping Beauty in a theater when I was very young, I'm guessing 5 or 6. Just vague recollections of the dark scenes. But we watched Wide World of Disney every Sunday night, so who knows if that was my first.

My daughter would tell you hers was The Aristocats. Not sure if it was, but it's definitely the earliest she remembers. I recall many late nights awake with her ear infections where we sat and watched over and over.

 

[hereyago]

Herbie Rides Again

I remember Escape From Witch Mountain and Candleshoe as well.

 

[kimblebee]

Probably Petes Dragon? I remember loving it when I was growing up.

 

[AnnaFloridaLover]

I remember watching all of those plus Herbie the Lovebug on Sundays growing up. Apple Dumpling Gang is still one of my favorites.

My parents dropped my brother and sisters and I off for the Apple Dumpling Gang so they could Christmas shop. I remember us getting in the car and telling my parents the scenes from the movie, still hysterically laughing. I haven't watched it since but I think I will, if I can find it.

 

[AnnaFloridaLover]

The Little Mermaid

But Beauty and the Beast was the first I saw in theater.

My daughter's first Disney movie was The Little Mermaid (probably on dvd); she's just shy of 19 years. My first born son's first was The Lion King, at the theatre when he was 4. I have no memory of my youngest's child's first movie, Disney or otherwise. ha ha

 

[AnnaFloridaLover]

Anyone remember watching Old Yeller? Buzz kill.

 

[Lilacs4Me]

Cinderella was the first movie, and I was young enough to not uderstand that it wasn't real. Lucifer and the wicked stepmother's scene in the dark bedroom gave me nightmares lol

BUT that's NOTHING compared to the first play I ever went to: Snow White.

The witch came out into the audience and was sneaking around in the dark among the rows of people in the audience. I was about 3 years old. Enough said.

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

My daughter's first Disney movie was The Little Mermaid (probably on dvd); she's just shy of 19 years. My first born son's first was The Lion King, at the theatre when he was 4. I have no memory of my youngest's child's first movie, Disney or otherwise. ha ha

I was 5 when I saw Beauty and the Beast LOL. I definitely saw The Little Mermaid before that though. I had a LOT of LM clothes and accessories. I was trying to find a picture of my first day of kindergarten. I had the plastic lunchbox and everything.

 

[Dinohood]

I think it was lion king in the theatre as kid i can't say when because after vsh watching them on repete you forget

 

[DisneyDad1960]

Mary Poppins. I was four. God, I'm old.

 

[jdb in AZ]

One of my earliest movie memories was Bambi. On the way home my younger sister kept asking why Bambi's mother died.

Then there's Ol' Yeller. Since we have a yellow labradork, you couldn't get me to watch another dog movie with a sad ending.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

I have a number of guesses, but I really couldn't say for certain. Ol Yeller? Lady and the Tramp? Bambi?

 

[Teresa Pitman]

Fantasia. It must have been a re-release or something because I wasn't born when it first came out (1940) but I was pretty young - maybe four, so 1960?? My dad took me, so I think it was probably to get me out of my mother's hair when my little sister was a newborn. I really loved it, I'd never seen anything like it!

 

[bdcp]

Bambi in 1966 when I was six. We saw it in the movie theater and it's the first movie I remember seeing in a theater. We went to Drive-in's fairly often, but rarely into a theater. My youngest son it was Little Mermaid when he was ~ 3.5 (initial release) and it scarred him for life. Ursula will do that to a little boy lol. I don't remember what my oldest son saw first (he's 28 months older than his brother) but it might be Little Mermaid too.