Your very first memory of TV or a movie?

Adamantium

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West. I was obsessed with this as a kid. I think it was the first movie I was "aware" of. Wore the tape out. Yet I completely forgot about for years until tonight, that it even existed.

This scene was eerie and creepy and I didn't understand what was going on truly, but I was awestruck by it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9SJi8a_yeM

Funny as hell, even now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOvcTO7EMT0

The animation is just...jesus christ it's gorgeous. When she looks into the reflection in the water, the ripples, putting the bucket and it flows like liquid gold, splashing it on the painting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d85_BH9huvE

I can't remember any further back than that!

What was your first memory?

Hotale.com

Going to see Tarzan with my dad when I was about 4, I can still smell the popcorn.

Lapin

The Angelus.

orangesoda

watching The Lion King in mid 1990's

Tigger

in the cinema
before this its black

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JIxQMozd1k

on telly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acOnskcyrtA

Bassfish

The music to Dallas starting

calanus

For some reason - Knot's Landing.

punisher5112

Simpsons, weekend at bernies, lethal weapon, die hard and many more I remember when very young.

SEPT 23 1989

madmaggie

Doctor Who. I used to hide behind my father's chair. :eek:

Lucifer MorningStar

Those darn Duke Boys

Eeden

This is going to date me so much!! I remember my older brother and my cousin (they were 5 years old at the time) being so upset at the Lone Ranger TV show (in the US - yes, we're talking the 60s) when it seemed as though (oh no! :eek:) he wouldn't survive the fall off of the cliff but we wouldn't find out until next week.... (smug four-year-old me knew he'd be back!) :P

HellboundIRL

The eye popping/bulging scene in Total Recall, scared me sh*tless.

SEPT 23 1989

roadsmart

Romper room, wanderly wagon and the banana bunch.

HugsiePie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrW_TTxP1ow

Adamantium

If anyone remembers RTE 2 on Saturday afternoon in the 90's. All afternoon in this order, finishing up by the Big Big Movie (I remember the Star Wars trilogy been shown one a week at 6.30pm for example)

We had this to look forward to every Saturday:
From 12 noon or so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6fSEf6tnG4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MVonyVSQoM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuYrRebvFHc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb8l1iRehpw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1rvi3vp7_0

Seriously impressive lineup for daytime tv. That was my childhood there :P

The Princess Bride

I remember sitting in my highchair,eating Heinz baby food,watching Wanderly Wagon in black & white,on the Bush tv.

First time at cinema was in 1978.
I went to see a double feature with my sister & my mother.
Both tear jerkers which,thankfully, I've not seen since.
The Last Snows of Spring & Last Feelings.

LizzieJones

I recall watching Mr. Dressup on our old black and white tv when I was 6.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Dressup

fillefatale

The first 'naughty' movie I remember sneakily watching on tv in the late 90s - Dangerous Liaisons

I watched a lot of TCM with my Dad when I was a kid in the 90s, when we could afford it! I remember the 1960s Planet of the Apes, and some really creepy b&w movies like the 1950s Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Night of the Living Dead

I also remember watching Star Trek: The Next Generation but hiding out of the room when the intro came on as the spaceship going into warp speed freaked me out, I must have been 6/7.

Jaysus I think I must have scarred myself with all those B-movie horrors! I haaaaate horror movies!

Bipolar Joe

TMNT, the movie. It caused a life long love of all things TMNT!

Jagdtiger

The rocky horror picture show...

Calibos

All I could remember of the movie was I saw it in the little cinema next door though unlikely in the year of release which places it about '78 with myself aged 4 and that it had a scene with a guy getting the top of his head sliced off by helicopter blades.

I google helicopter decapitation movie and after 3 Vic Morrow Twilight Zone results (real life movie decapitation) BINGO.

Google and IMDB tag team gives me 'Holocaust 2000' !!

Honestly though, who brings a 4 year old to a movie like that!! Dad?? Grandad?? Aunty??

Next movie I remember is the chestburster scene in Alien on first release VHS in 1980. I was 6.

I don't think I saw the rest of Alien till 1990

Karl Stein

Can't remember any of the shows (was probably sent to bed) but remember being a bit spooked by this theme tune/vid nevertheless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc46Gk-6qrA

The Backwards Man

Some Australian thing, a bit like a cross between Skippy and A Country Practice, on in the evening. There was this footbridge, well more of a plank, across a marshy type pond and a young lad was walking across. All of a sudden this monster thing, a bit like Animal from the Muppets,bursts up from the muddy water and strikes up a conversation with the kid. About being lonely I think. Scared the crap out of me.

I've been trying for the last twenty years to find out what that show was, starting to think I dreamt it.

peewee_44

I remember watching well being forced to be on the same room during Sinbad films oh the horror

Ruu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcH_ZTF6smY

LizzieJones

Just remembered this .... When I was 7, I saw Fantastic Voyage at a school screening of the movie. Our school screened movies for the students now and then complete with popcorn for the princely sum of 25 cents.

I also saw The Incredible Journey (1963 version) and The Night of the Grizzly.

Adyx

Probably this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGOMnE26jNo

or that other weird french cartoon with the guy with the big noseand they traveled around the human body.
Slightly more grown up (I was 8 or 90 was this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc_-RTvyijc

I loved the music.

Galwayguy35

Bracken
The Live Mike
Wonder Woman, although I wasn't old enough to fully appreciate what a "wonder" she really was at the time.

scrubber72

I remember the day rte2 first broadcast. I was sitting there waiting for something huge to happen. It didn't.
Also i used to believe little people lived inside the tv and can recall when the tv repairman came and opened get back. Again i was disappointed not to see big bird, ernie and bert poke their heads out from behind a valve.

bnt

No idea how old I was - maybe 2-ish - but Balok from an early Star Trek episode gave me nightmares. I clearly remember it from the last shot in the closing credits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXPW5QV4Ymw

Teyla Emmagan

We didn't watch TV much when I was small (2 channels, one of which only started in the evening!) but I do remember going swimming on Wednesdays. We'd come home and watch that 'greatest American hero' thing in front of the fire followed by 'the green fields of Wyoming' while my mother dried our hair. Utter bliss!

Graces7

• andy pandy, muffin the mule, kit carson,and a few years later, the coronation

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

We were all taken to a house somewhere upon north in Sept 1949 to see Come Dancing on the BBC, because an old neighbour of my mother's was in a dance team. I can remember the amazement of seeing pictures on a TV but couldn't tell you who won!

Corvo

Transformers cartoons. God they were brilliant. Even now watching the Michael Bay movies, my heart breaks at how much better these cartoons were. The trilogy of movies are crap in comparison.

My mother said (and I do remember) that I would get up every Saturday at around 6 o clock, have the living room to myself, make toast and grab a Capri Sun and watch Arnie's classic - Commando around 4 times back to front in the morning to afternoon, I just loved it that much. Still love that movie.

_Brian

Wanderly wagon, playschool, Mr Ben, Bagpuss, Wonderwoman, the bionic man, the oddies, were staples on my TV in the early 70's.
We got British stations as we lived along the border.

First cinema visit would have been 78/79 to a wee private local cinema to see the Muppets, same wee cinema I brought herself to on a first date, double seats in the back row and all that.

razorblunt

Thomas the Tank, the theme song is a beaut, not to mention the remix with 50 cent being perfectly apt.

andy1249

Children of the stones....very scary for kids tv!

wispa9

Kipper chasing a butterfly!
Special mention: Dante's Peak traumatised my 5 year old self. The scene where the dog is running to jump into the jeep sent me into hysterics. Kill all the loving grandmas you want, but for god's sake, don't hurt the dog!

beauf

Jungle book in the cinema.

TV was match of the day or at least the music. Also the World at war series the closing credits where it turns to newspaper photo and burns.

Didn't watch that much tv though. So don't have strong memories till older.

Coopaloop

The first thing I remember watching on TV as a child was the TV movie IT, I was 5 and my two older brothers were babysitting me and didn't see a problem with me watching it.

Needless to say I was scared sh*tless and to this day still have a fear of clowns and spiders........

wendell borton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWpRD_il9s8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dqxZo_myyA

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller

First Movie memory: Superman.
The helicopter scene is all I can recall though.

First TV memory: Pope's visit.
People actually were taking photos of the TV*.


*Mean the television. Not calling the pope a TV for wearing a dress.

LETHAL LADY

Getting up at the crack of dawn for Anything Goes and watching Aonghus McAnally with his odd socks. Never warmed to that Mary wan, she came across as an auld bossy biddy.

Ilyana 2.0

Sesame Street, Scooby Doo and Paddington Bear are the first tv programmes I remember watching. Oh and this, which completely mesmerised me:

I was about 2.5 when I learned how to work the VCR, so I'd watch Disney classics on repeat. The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Snow White...if it was Disney, I'd watch it.

CarrickMcJoe

First movie was The Ten Commandments

TV was The Banana Splits
Arabian Nights
Champion the wonder horse,
Andy Pandy.
Michael Bentine's potty time

bodhi085

Superman the movie in 1978.. I was 4 and it was in a two tier cinema in my hometown of birmingham. Half way through there was an intermission and a lady stood at the front centre of the screen sellng popcorn and ice cream. The ice cream was the really yellow Cornish type and the cone was square at the top. The film was long back then but every film I went to after that in the same cinema had an intermission..flash Gordon,clash of the titans and superman 2. Those 3 films absolutely stand out as my first movies. As for tv.. Chips and 240 Robert

First_October

My very first memory is of being freaked out by the stampede scene in the Lion King. I must have been only two years old when I saw it!

I suspect I am of the same vintage as the OP as I was also obsessed by the Fievel movies. Another set of movies I had forgotten about until recently is the Land Before Time series; many a wet afternoon was spent engrossed by the tribulations of Littlefoot et al. !

The Diabolical Monocle

Being dragged away just as I sat in total awe at the rocket pods firing.

At that time the greatest thing that existed. Still pretty cool to this day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFLFH8GW4gs

Pherekydes

The first TV show I remember watching was the Quiz show Quicksilver. My father was a contestant on it and he won our first TV, which we then used to watch him win our first TV. It was c.1963.