Your very first memory of TV or a movie?

Adamantium · 05-05-2014 01:37AM #1

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 · 05-05-2014 01:38AM

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

Lapin · 05-05-2014 01:39AM

The Angelus.

orangesoda · 05-05-2014 01:39AM

watching The Lion King in mid 1990's

Tigger · 05-05-2014 01:42AM

in the cinema
before this its black

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

on telly

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

Bassfish · 05-05-2014 01:43AM

The music to Dallas starting

calanus · 05-05-2014 01:43AM

For some reason - Knot's Landing.

punisher5112 · 05-05-2014 01:45AM

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

SEPT 23 1989 · 05-05-2014 01:49AM

madmaggie · 05-05-2014 01:59AM

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

Lucifer MorningStar · 05-05-2014 02:06AM

Those darn Duke Boys

Eeden · 05-05-2014 02:07AM

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 · 05-05-2014 02:10AM

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

SEPT 23 1989 · 05-05-2014 02:12AM

roadsmart · 05-05-2014 02:13AM

Romper room, wanderly wagon and the banana bunch.

HugsiePie · 05-05-2014 02:18AM

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

Adamantium · 05-05-2014 02:23AM

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 · 05-05-2014 02:26AM

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 · 05-05-2014 02:29AM

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

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

fillefatale · 05-05-2014 02:41AM

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 · 05-05-2014 02:58AM

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

Jagdtiger · 05-05-2014 02:58AM

The rocky horror picture show...

Calibos · 05-05-2014 03:14AM

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 · 05-05-2014 03:31AM

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 · 05-05-2014 03:31AM

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 · 05-05-2014 03:36AM

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

Ruu · 05-05-2014 03:39AM

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

LizzieJones · 05-05-2014 03:44AM

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 · 05-05-2014 04:56AM

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 · 05-05-2014 05:50AM

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 · 05-05-2014 07:18AM

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.

Your very first memory of TV or a movie?

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