What was the first Disney movie you ever saw?

[robinb]

That Darn Cat ... at a drive-in .

 

[punkin]

I want to say...Herbie goes Bananas.

 

[theSurlyMermaid]

101 Dalmations.

 

[theSurlyMermaid]

Oh wait, maybe Robin Hood, if we're counting TV.

 

[Meshell2002]

I saw snow white and bambi as a double feature rerelease one summer when I was five, also lived Peter pan on vhs.

 

[georgina]

Not sure. We didn't see many (any?) movies at theaters when I was a kid, so it maybe whatever was on Sunday night TV.

I do remember some friends taking me to a drive-in to see Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Based on the release date, I was maybe 10.

 

[lovin'fl]

Bambi at drive in.

 

[DLmama]

Mine was The Little Mermaid in the theater. I think I saw Mary Poppins first because it was my mom's favorite.

 

[scrapquitler]

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!!!

My first Disney movie,and the first movie I ever saw in a theater: Bedknobs and Broomsticks. I was 4.

 

[Praying Colonel]

I think it was probably The Love Bug. Parents took us to the drive-in and saw it there.

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

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!!!

That i remember:
Can you guess from my handle?

The Rescuers. At the Drive in.


But I am told I went to see pretty much every Disney movie when it came out back then (early 70s). I know I definitely saw the Aristocats, because I named the cat I got that year Thomas O'Malley, but I don't remember going. We also had a film projector and I remember the one of Goofy in the jungle with the lion.

 

[tvguy]

Mary Poppins in 1964 when I was 7. My dads car broke down on a 110 degree day and the auto repair place was next door to the air conditioned theater. So mom and I watched a movie while the car got fixed.

 

[jsmla]

Jungle Book, 1967. It was my 7th birthday and my parents let me invite friends to the movie and my very first sleepover. It was an epic night ;-)

 

[BrianL]

I also think it was Bambi. There must have been a re-release around 1980 and I was a baby. I don't remember it at all, but the story goes that we had gone to see Bambi and as we were driving home we found this grey dog shivering in the cold. We picked her up and took her home. She was our dog for many years and we had named her Bambi.

EDIT: I have to amend the story as I was talking to my mom about it. The dog was actually surrendered to a vet where my grandmother worked, but she was still named after the movie we just saw and we did take her home.

The first I think I can really remember watching was the animated Robin Hood on TV. In theaters it might be Great Mouse Detective.

 

[L&Lfan]

1967 was a big year for me movie wise. I was 7. I saw the 1967 rereleases of Gone With the Wind and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. I saw The Sound of Music which was still on its original run from 1965. I saw The Gnome Mobile, Charlie the Lonesome Cougar and The Jungle Book. A great year!

 

[georgina]

Wow! Isn't GWTW like 4 hours long?

 

[mom2rtk]

It right at 3 hours 45 minutes and is typically shown with an intermission. I'm thinking it's right after the "As God is my witness" scene.

 

[McKelly]

Bambi.

 

[L&Lfan]

I don't even recall thinking Gone With the Wind or The Sound of Music were that long. I was absolutely enchanted, even at age 7, by what I was seeing on the screen.

And seeing Snow White and Jungle Book made me a Disney fan for life.

I remember asking my parents for the storyteller albums AND The Sound of Music soundtrack right after I saw the films!

 

[mi*vida*loca]

I think The Little Mermaid. I was 7 when it came out. It's still my favorite to this day.