Who can remember what the film was the first time you went to the "Pictures"....how come we never went to the Cinema ?

For me it was Disney's 'Song of the South' and I think I was seven so it would be 1947 at the Abbeydale.

My Gran also took me and my sister to see 'The Red Shoes' with Margot Fontayne at the Gaumont in Barkers Pool. Can anyone remember what year that was showing ?

GB

The Exorcist at a local working mens club, I was about 16 at the time. That film scared me to death and even to this day I will not watch it again:o
Not exactly the pictures but I remember it like it was yesterday, one guy actually fainted and had to be carried out.

MY first film was Sound of Music when I was 5, I loved the film, in fact still do.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks at the Gaumont on Barkers Pool. The queue went all around the building and back onto the main street.
Can't remember how old I was but I think it was in the early 70s

Originally posted by upholder
The Exorcist at a local working mens club, I was about 16 at the time. That film scared me to death and even to this day I will not watch it again:o

After seeing that Disney film I had bad dreams about being chased by a bull. A young lad in the film gets gored by a bull.

Even today if I'm crossing a field with cows in it I do a double check to see they've got the right dangly bits :)

We passed a field the other day over towards Bradfield with a couple of alpacas in it - not sure if they're friend or foe :?

GB

Originally posted by Funke88
Bedknobs and Broomsticks at the Gaumont on Barkers Pool. The queue went all around the building and back onto the main street.
Can't remember how old I was but I think it was in the early 70s


No way! MY first film at the pics was Bedknobs and Broomsticks at the Gaumont, early 70s too!

A quick web search reveals that it was released in 1971, so there you go. I would have been 3 or 4.

My memory of the occasion is very vague, but I do recall that I was really quite bemused by the whole thing, not really sure what was going on, and I think the ads and the film itself all kind of blended into one. My own lad seems a lot more clued up about things like this, as he's only 3 and a half, and he's been to the cinema and theatre loads of times - and seems to understand what's going on perfectly!

Snow White, great, ...DON'T EAT THAT APPLE.........whoops too late..
Mr Greybeard, I also recall Song of the South and the boy gored by the bull, I was soothed though by Uncle Remus singing There's a Bluebird on my Shoulder......must have been a strong bloke though, I struggled with my bike...!!!
Latest film - Bruce Almighty.

While I'm still awake, a gang of 20 of us lads went to see Tommy then A Bridge Too Far. I remember coming out after A Bridge Too Far and feeling quite proud and quite a hardnut, probably imagining I was at one with the 1st Parachute Regiment. We queued outside the Gaumont. We all went to Stockcars and speedway together. And Studio 7, but that's another story.

In the 50s a lot of the cinemas used to do special programmes for kids on Saturday mornings. Our local was the Colliseum on London road. Mostly Charlie Chaplain and the Three Stooges etc. Flash Gordon was the best laugh - some of the special effects could have been done better by the Blue Peter team with cardboard, glue and poster paint.

Occasionally we'd go the the News Theatre in Fitzallan Square - it was a continous show there and you could sit and watch it all day if you wanted.

GB

bambi at Rex cinema which is now a car park for co-op

I'd watched loads of films at home but the first one I ever saw at the pictures was "Paws" lol!

Originally posted by upholder
The Exorcist at a local working mens club, I was about 16 at the time. That film scared me to death and even to this day I will not watch it again:o
Not exactly the pictures but I remember it like it was yesterday, one guy actually fainted and had to be carried out.
I have the full uncut version (wasn't even shown in the cinema) on DVD!

Excellent movie!

Grease in Chesterfield

I SO haven't got the patience to be sat down for hours on end watching films. I think the first time I went to the pictures was to see the first Jurassic Park movie, or was it Lion King? I guess I do have loads of patience but I think I get bored earlier... when I'm bored I talk too much!
Chloé

What 'picture' I saw first?

I can't even remember what I had for breakfast yesterday. To get back to the question - I cannot remember, but I reckon it must have been in black and white.

First film I saw at the pictures was ET!!!

Originally posted by emma_uk
First film I saw at the pictures was ET!!!
Same here! 8)

I don't actually remember seeing it though... just coming out of the pictures. (I must've been really young!)

First film I saw was The Jungle Book, at Crystal Peaks Cinema, just after it had opened.

Originally posted by Tony Ruscoe
Same here! 8)

I don't actually remember seeing it though... just coming out of the pictures. (I must've been really young!)

Strange you should say that Tony cos I don't remember seeing it either, I just remember choking on a sweet!

Also Bedknobs and Broomsticks! And I could watch it again today!!!! Though if it was released in 1971 I must have seen it on a re-release as I was still in nappies then!!!!

And have just realised this is the reason for my lifelong desire to have a cast iron bedstead! Saw the film about 1976 and only got one two months ago!!!! Only took 26 years. Hope it doesnt take me as long to get everything else I want in life

:lol:

Im getting worried now. Theres no WAY i can remember the first time i went to the pictures!!

My first film (that I can remember) was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
One of my older brothers took me alongwith our younger brother and some of our friends. I'm not sure but I think it was at the Studios on the Wicker but the best thing was that we must have sat through 4 or 5 showings. Can anyone else remember being able to sit through as many showings as we wanted?
Great value or what?

The first film that I still have memories of is 'The Sound Of Music' around 1965 at the old Odeon on Flat Street. It still makes me shudder to think about it. However the most important 'first film' was the one I went to without my parents (well, my mother. My dad couldn't bother his a*se). That was 2001 A Space Oddysey at the ABC Angel Street (c1969). Remember it? The ceiling looked like the starship Enterprise. It was also amazing that I was assistant manager of the place less than 15 years later. Still had carbon arc projectors at the time. Also had the second largest Todd AO (70MM) screen in the UK. Those were the days.

Any film & projection technology buffs out there? Lets talk. I worked in an awful lot of cinemas and ex-cinemas. Still got some momento's.

Jaws - released boxing day 197??? something at the ABC, waited for hours to get in.

I think ET may have been my first film. I can't seem to recall anything before that.

Originally posted by Lickszz
I think ET may have been my first film. I can't seem to recall anything before that.
Hey, that was the early eighties. If it was the ABC, there's a better than even chance that I was standing in the foyer directing traffic. Remember me, I was the Adonis in a lounge suit. The manager wore the full penguin gear.

Originally posted by superCol
The manager wore the full penguin gear.

Was he short and fat?

Was he there in the 70's for the ABC Minors?

If so I remember him

Originally posted by mikey
Was he short and fat?

Was he there in the 70's for the ABC Minors?

If so I remember him
Sure was. His name was Les Allen. Bit of an authoritarian but he was alright. Anyone know if he is still alive, and if so, where he is? He used to live in Fulwood and had a Hillman Avenger which he used to park in the multi-storey behind the ABC. He gave the attendants free passes in leiu of parking charges. Always reminded me of an old fashioned bank manager, a bit like Captain Mainwaring out of Dad's Army.

Originally posted by superCol
Hey, that was the early eighties. If it was the ABC, there's a better than even chance that I was standing in the foyer directing traffic. Remember me, I was the Adonis in a lounge suit. The manager wore the full penguin gear.

lol, I was very young. It doesn't ring any bells, sorry. ;)

The first film I remember is 'Born Free', but that's only because I had toothache all the way through it. Apparently, the first film I went to see, was 'Dr. Who and the Daleks', it was released in 1965 so I must have been three. Apparantly, it was shown at a very high volume, and I cried all the way thorugh it. Both were at the Rex Cinema on Mansfield Road.

The Rescuers at the ABC when I was about 4. I also remember my dad taking me to see Spiderman (the first one from the late 70s) at the Rex on Mansfield Road, and having to get the bus back cos the car wouldnt start.

At the grand old age of 6 (maybe 7...) my elder sister took me to The Ritz on Wordsworth, to see Cliff in The Young Ones. I loved it. It was accompanied by a documentary film, about which I remember nothing.
I later learned that the great Reg Dixon made his organing debut at The Ritz.
It's now a dump.

The Sound Of Music at The Abbeydale Picture Palace,with my Mum Sister & brother.I hate that film,but my wife like's the movie so I get out of the way when it comes on TV like every ruddy xmas lol

Not entirely sure this was the first ever film but Star Wars is the one that sticks in my head for some reason... and dar'n Sa'uff in Kent...

Thanks for the reminders about Song of the South though.. all the Bra'r Rabbit, Bear, etc... all brough a grin back from the memories :)

As a toggler in 1944 I went with my Mum to see a film somwhere in sheffield I don't remember much about it ...But the Newsreel was an update of the 2nd World War, I remember lots of Bomber planes.

My first film had to have been a western on a Saturday afternoon, I bet if you all think about it most of you saw a western picture, after that it would have been Flash Gorden,
well i would say it's a toss up between those.

mine was the sound of music with mi grom.....i think i'd have been about 3 years old and can remember screaming cos it was dark..thats all i remember about it.

Lady and the Tramp at the Ritz, Parson Cross.

it was either "the battle of britain" or "where eagles dare" can't remember whch cinema possibly abc or gaumont,it was a school trip one afternoon (myers grove) both great films.
the scariest i've ever seen was the "devil rides out" that was way back in the seventies at the studio 567 (can't remeber any of the actors/actress) it frightened the living daylights out of my then girlfriend so much so she woke her parents at around 2.30 am saying she could'nt sleep.boy did i get a right old rollocking of her father,god bless him,gone to the great rollocking platform in the sky.:wave: :wave:

I remember seeing that!

You're right-scariest film I've ever seen especially that bit where the Angel of Death bursts through the door. I saw it at the ABC.

i would like to see it again for old times sake,anybody know where i might find a copy :help:

The Rescuers at ABC. I can't remember much about it except that I loved it even though it scared me. Sensitive kid! The other option was Jaws 2, glad I didn't see that, may have scared me by how bad it was.

It must have been at either the Regal or Darnal Cinema on a Saturday, maybe Cisco Kid or that awful Woody Woodpecker. Does anyone remember a serial called Nioca (no idea of the spelling) the jungle girl, none of my friends can remember it.

My first film was Sleeping beauty at the cinema on Mansfield Rd, now a supermarket.

Don't know whether Snow white or bambi came first, but the first film I saw unescorted by adults was Ghostbusters. It was so good we went again the following weekend. Does anybody remember the ad campaign before the film? The ghostbusters logo was on every other bus stop, with no info. It had us bewildered for about a month!

Sound of Music at either the ABC or Gaumont with my parents and baby sister. I found it so boring that I fell asleep. In fact, to this day I have never made it fully conscious to the end.

Originally posted by Greybeard
Who can remember what the film was the first time you went to the "Pictures"....how come we never went to the Cinema ?


GB

My first time was at Beighton Cinema around 1960, the Saturday Matinee. Also used to go to the REX at Intake.

I can remember Frank Ifield playing "I remember You oo" waiting for the curtains to open.
Favourties to watch were "Little Rascals" with( Alfalfa, Porky, Buckwheat, Spanky. ) Also watched Zoro & Marvelman.

We used to place a penny in the aisle just in front of our seats and when someone bent down to pick it up we would kick them up the backside and send em rolling down the ailse. hahaha

First movie I remember had Bing Crosby in it. I think he was a Milkman, he was invited to sing a song and the microphone blew up in his face! Thats all I remember. I was still sitting on the tipped up seat, so I wasn't very old. With the knowledge of the passing years it could've been one of the ''Big Broadcast''movies,either '36 or '38. An old (very old) film buff will know.

My earlies memory of the cinema was when I was at primary school - my mum used to meet me after school on a Thursday and she took me to the Classic Cinema in Fitzalen Square - this would have been around 1958 and I dont think it was called the Classic then - they used to show cartoons, Tome and Jerry etc.

The first 'proper' film I can remember going to the cinema for was a version of 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' - it was'nt the Charles Laughton version - I can remember now that the bells he 'rode' on were huge and to a little kid scared the life out of me

My nan took me and it was the Oxford Picture Palace on Crookesmoor Road

Used to go to the Saturday afternoon flicks in Nottinghamshire, cost 3d or 6d. Flash Gordon, Lone Ranger and similar stuff.

The first cinema film I recall, sometime in the 50s, was a French film about a little boy and a red ballon. It was a beautiful film, but although it left a lasting impression on me, I've never seen it since.

Slight digression: when I used to work in a children's home in Derbyshire in the early 70s, I started a cinema club for the kids -a lot of whom had never been to the pictures before. One Boxing Day, we took 20+ kids to see Oliver! Oh how true to life was this film for a lot of the kids. All the staff and most of the kids were crying buckets.

First one i was taken to see was The Aristocats at the cinema on Barnsley Road now a carpet shop.

Originally posted by Damon
No way! MY first film at the pics was Bedknobs and Broomsticks at the Gaumont, early 70s too!

A quick web search reveals that it was released in 1971, so there you go. I would have been 3 or 4.

My memory of the occasion is very vague, but I do recall that I was really quite bemused by the whole thing, not really sure what was going on, and I think the ads and the film itself all kind of blended into one. My own lad seems a lot more clued up about things like this, as he's only 3 and a half, and he's been to the cinema and theatre loads of times - and seems to understand what's going on perfectly!



The first film I saw at the pics was Bedknobs and Broomsticks at Penistone cinema. I was about 3. I can only seem to remember the "Bobbin along" song

Originally posted by redrobbo


The first cinema film I recall, sometime in the 50s, was a French film about a little boy and a red ballon. It was a beautiful film, but although it left a lasting impression on me, I've never seen it since.


I remember it too and must aggree with you it is a beautiful film. It would be nice to seee it again.

Follow the link below.

"le ballon rouge" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048980/)

Originally posted by Lostrider
I remember it too and must aggree with you it is a beautiful film. It would be nice to seee it again.

Follow the link below.

"le ballon rouge" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048980/)

Thank you Lostrider. How interesting to note the opening observation in this review that people who saw it as a child remark on how it affected them. That's exactly my situation.

Have now calculated that I was 8 when I saw this film, which is 50 years ago. I must have seen loads of other films before that time, but this is the first that I can clearly remember.

Happy memories then for both me and Lostrider.

Mary Poppins. I was 4 and cried when the toys started misbehaving so we had to leave. A feat I repeated when my Dad took me to see 2000 Years BC. I shrieked as soon as the dinosaurs came on. I guess he just wanted to ogle Raquel. I was far too young to appreciate her finer points.

STAR WARS - when I was around five or six, my dad took me and my two older brothers, needless to say we spent the next few months aboard the millenium falcon, hitting each other with sticks and 'using the force'........yes, OF COURSE I was Princess Leia...(and still am, actually)

The first films I can remember are Sweet Rosie O'Grady at the Palace on London rd and The stage door canteen at a cinema just above H L Browns I think it was called the Cinema House.
Can't remember muchabout them, but vividly remember The News which was introduced by a cock crowing annd showing the troops going into Belson or someother camp. Remember the piles of skeletons with sticks for legs and ams which they were actually moving. ? waving.
I suppose the saying, lest we forget comes to mind.
hazel

I remember the first film i ever saw at the pictures .
I was about 4 yrs old and my mum took me to see snow white at the Adelphi (probably wrong spelling), in Attercliffe,
Very early 60s. I remember there was always a man selling chestnuts when you came out.

when i was 11 I went to see kes , jungle book, Bullwhip griffin at the Essoldo sheffield lane top.

This topic has really got me thinking. I know the cinema was the 'Sunbeam' down Firvale, but I haven't a clue what the movie was. I was still sitting on the edge of a tipup seat, and it was a 'period' type movie where all the women wore crinolines and the men wore long wigs and other outlandish crap.
So there's this old guy who plays the violin, and just to emphasise the fact, for some reason the film makers decided to have four of him revolving around the screen, a kind of early special effects. To cut the story short, it did my head in, four of this guy going round and around, playing this violin. They dragged me out screaming blue murder. I must've ruined it for about 200 people. Pity really, It could've been Douglas Fairbanks.

carry on camping ,in attercliffe 1969

It was Jungle book which my Dad took me to see at the Rex Cinema. Dad recently passed away and it's nice to remember things like this. He had a childs sense of humour so loved taking us kids to see all the cartoons. Even up to his death he would still crack up at Tom and Jerry and Foghorn Leghorn.

You guys have got me trying to think of a movie I can put a name to! The only one that comes to mind is 'Mississippi', with Bing Crosby, and W.C.Fields. I must've been about 5 or 6 years old, just before the war started. My Uncle used to take me and he never missed a Crosby movie.

bing crosby is pure class

Mine was Mary Poppins when I was about 5 or 6. My dads friend took me to the ABC! I saw the exorcist when I was about 13 (that cinema at Attercliffe?) and it also scared me half to death, I was crying but my boyfriend wouldn't let me leave the 'pictures' and I slept with my bedroom light on for the next 5 years!

Originally posted by tulip
Mine was Mary Poppins when I was about 5 or 6. My dads friend took me to the ABC! I saw the exorcist when I was about 13 (that cinema at Attercliffe?) and it also scared me half to death, I was crying but my boyfriend wouldn't let me leave the 'pictures' and I slept with my bedroom light on for the next 5 years!

The first one I really remember was "Emmanuelle" at the studio 7. That saw me through many of those long winter evenings.

My first films were Born Free Made me cry and still does

Mary Poppins and still love it

Dr Who and the Darleks drigged my mum and dad to sit through it

Bet nobody can remember the film, it was "Hey Lolipop" dont remember much about it, I know it was sad, American with a black boy in it, but that was my first!

me andmy mum got thrown out of the pictures when i was little cos i woudlnt stop crying.

also, my dad took my mum to see the exorcist on thier first date!

It was 1934 and for weeks my mother had been promising to take me to see ‘the big monkey’. I was the original King Kong with Fay Wray, and it was showing at the old Darnall Cinema. When the first close-up pf ‘the big monkey’ appeared I was already running like mad and half-way out of the theatre; my mother following and shouting for me to come back. Come back? No fear! I kept on running until I got back home. Afterwards, I had nightmares for weeks. I was quite young (going on 5) at the time.

I went to watch pinnochio (can't spell that) plus another film that I don't remember, there was an interval between the two and a lady came round with ice cream, I thought it was great. I was really young about 5/6 so we are talking 17 years ago, how come they don't have double bills now with ice cream in the interval.

Remember my dad taking me to see cromwell, did'nt really interest me at the time, i'm sure we only went cos my dad wanted to see it

My gran worked at the "Adelphi" for years and my mother used to use her concessionary pass. We would go to the Thursday afternoon matinee and although I MUST have been very young, can remember going to see a black and white film called "The Glass Mountain" and "The Red Shoes" which I have seen several times since on the telly. Don't know what it was about the Glass Mountain that has made it stick in my mind so much though. Think perhaps it could have been the music.

In Fullwood Homes 42-43 any kid that had money saved got to go and see Snow-White,the ones whose parents where just killed got nothing, so even at that age it was very bitter sweet,Iknow we who had money would have gladly shared.I got none of my saving back anyway when i left in 46.

In Fullwood Homes 42-43 any kid that had money saved got to go and see Snow-White,the ones whose parents where just killed got nothing, so even at that age it was very bitter sweet,Iknow we who had money would have gladly shared.I got none of my saving back anyway when i left in 46.

I recall a BIG event for us kids of Cottage #9 Fulwood Cottage Homes when we were taken by our foster mother, Miss (Rosemary) Bower, to see the movie White Christmas in the city. I don't remember the cinema, however. It was extra memorable for us since it began to snow on the way back to the home. I remember we kids trudging through the newly fallen snow as we walked up the hill (Blackbrooke Road) from the bus toward 'the homes'. It was/is a beautiful memory.

My first film was Born Free. It was the first time we had ever been to the pictures. Then we went to see Dr. Zivago. What a boring film.

Think the first one I went to was in about 1955 at the Gaumont in Barkers Pool.
Legend/Ballad of Davy Crockett with Fez Parker.
Was very embarressing for my big brother though. Our mother made him take me on a Saturday and he had to walk me from Duke St to Barkers Pool. Nothing wrong with that is there?
Trouble was he was 17 and I was 5 and wearing a Davy Crockett hat!!
He's never forgiven me.
:hihi: :hihi:

Swiss Family Robinson with my Dad and sister way back in the late 60's at the much discussed Studio 5/6/7 on the Wicker. Not sure if it was called that in those days though.

King-kong in the 70's. My dad saw the size of the queue at the ABC so made out we were wanting to see another film. Got Through the door a lot quicker than we should have & joined the king-kong queue at the beginning.
What a rebel, God rest his soul!

Moved to Sheffield in the 60's - the first film that i remember going to was in about 1968 with me mum and dad and my brother - Gaumont - Fitzalan Square - double bill - "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid" with "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie".

Saw all the early Bond films plus Anthony & Cleopatra, Lawrence of Arabia at the Gaumont in Donny.

My first film was Mighty Joe Young at the old Park Picture House, South Street, Parkhill, mid to late 60s and onwards.Anyone else remember.

The first film I ever saw at the pictures was The Sound of Music at the Gaumont in Barkers Pool in early 1970's.

My husband saw Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Manor Top in the mid 60's but he can't remember what the cinema was called. Its been gone a long time now, its now a supermarket

Remember going to the old cinema in Rotherham that had the man who used to pop up on his organ in between the short and the main film. I once queued to go and see 'Pete's dragon' through the whole first showing to the second showing and still only just got in... sat on front row with my neck craned. You'd never do it now!

My first film unaccompanied into Sheffield was to the Gaumont to see Footloose, I went at night as well! Thought i was well grown up. My mum had only allowed me to go to Rotherham before.

The Hey crusader! Have you any nuts? advert used to tickle me!

my first film was Dirty Rotten Scoundrels in about about 1988. Saw this in the old odeon, where Mingdom now is. The old days when a cinema only had 2 screens.

I think that it might have been "The boy with green hair" at Walkley, late 40s early 50s.

Chitty chitty bang bang .

Mum and Dad had the OB looking for me because i didnt get home on the bus i was supposed to be on.
Enjoyed it so much I sat through it twice :hihi:

I belive my mum first took me and my brother to see peter pan at the pictures, we went to the cinema that you use to get to behind the roxy faceing the bus station that was along that balcony were all shops are now. I can rember the first film i saw with my freinds that was back to the future with my first boyfriend too.

Who can remember what the film was the first time you went to the "Pictures"....how come we never went to the Cinema ?

For me it was Disney's 'Song of the South' and I think I was seven so it would be 1947 at the Abbeydale.

My Gran also took me and my sister to see 'The Red Shoes' with Margot Fontayne at the Gaumont in Barkers Pool. Can anyone remember what year that was showing ?

GB


Sorry, can't remember the year, but I think Moira Shearer had the female lead in it.

scott of the antarctic. cinema house 1948 ish.

My first film was Mighty Joe Young at the old Park Picture House, South Street, Parkhill, mid to late 60s and onwards.Anyone else remember.

Wow I don't remember it as a picture house but I do remember it as a bingo place in the late 1960s Was it call the Embassy then?

If I remember correctly it was on the Right Hand side as you went down that steep cobbled street (Gilbert St.?), all other buildings long since demolished. Must have been a pub on the cobbled street too as I remember seeing the cellar hatch.

I think the first film I saw at the pictures here was Beat Street at the ABC when it was 50p on a Saturday morning. :)

Wow I don't remember it as a picture house but I do remember it as a bingo place in the late 1960s Was it call the Embassy then?

If I remember correctly it was on the Right Hand side as you went down that steep cobbled street (Gilbert St.?), all other buildings long since demolished. Must have been a pub on the cobbled street too as I remember seeing the cellar hatch. I remember the Park Cinema, a gang of us kids from Pitsmoor made a special trip to see 'Guadalcanal Diary', featuring Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, et al. We all got there on the inner circular, I think it used to stop outside the cinema.

I'm sure I must have seen some Disney film or other when I was small, but the first film I remember seeing is 'Star Wars' at the Gaumont. I think it was released in '77, so I must have been about 6. I distinctly remember being bored to tears by it, and leaving before it was half way through. I clearly had excellent taste even as a youngster... ;) .

The first film I ever went see was a Matinee somewhere in Sheffield in the 1940's and I fell asleep ..My mum told me the Film was called "Gaslight" can anybody remember this film.???

The first film I ever saw saw was at the Pavilion on Attercliffe Common. It was called " The Court Jester" starring Danny Kaye around 1954.

Films that I can also recall in that era were seen at the Essoldo, Sheffield Lane Top and include "Reach for the Sky" starring Kenneth More as the WW" pilot Douglas Bader in 1956 . Also I can rember "The Vikings " starring Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis around 1957.

I have very vague memories of going to the Saturday matinee at the Victory Cinema on Upwell Street which was just at the bottom of Birdwell Road where I used to live. I can remember they used to show a Flash Gordon serial. That must have been about 1954 as well.

There were some great local cinemas about in those days, for example, the Sunbeam at Firvale, the Roxy at Page Hall and the Paragon at Firth Park. Also the Adelphi just off Attercliffe Common and the Colisseum on Spital Hill were particular favourites.

The first film I ever saw at a cinema was not in town but at the Cinema House, Ecclesfield (later Essoldo). My Dad took me and the film was an old British (new then) black and white film starring Freda Jackson, called 'No Room at the Inn'. In the film she had a hat with a feather in it. One of the kids sat on it and she shouted 'Who's broke me bleedin' feather?' I thought it was really rude and couldn't stop talking about it. I must have been all of five years old.

The first film I ever went see was a Matinee somewhere in Sheffield in the 1940's and I fell asleep ..My mum told me the Film was called "Gaslight" can anybody remember this film.???


I remember it. I think Ingrid Bergman and Anton Walbrook were the stars. A very scary film, taken from the stage play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton.

Wizard of Oz at the Chantry Woodseats Rd. Before the war I think.

Cant remember exactlly i think it was Pinochio or Born Free I wept buckets at Born Free and still do.

Then ther was Mary poppins and the Darleks

"Don't tell mum the babysitters dead" and it was crap but i enjoyed the experiance:)

mine was Jurasic Park.

:O scary !!!!!

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Rex in Intake circa 1970-71.

I'm sure mine had to be some kind of Western Matinee at the Forum at Southey Green.

Chitty chitty bang bang, queues a mile long.

I can also remember queuing to see the early Bond films then going to school and telling everybody what happened, all those gadgets, flash cars and” promiscuous” women ( well I was only young).

i saw et at the cinema 123 on the wicker :thumbsup:

i went to see a double feature at the classic cinema in fitzallen square

pete's dragon & 101 dalmations (the animated film not the one with glenn close's over acting)

Sound of music, Odeon, aged about 5.

Dumbo ! Apparently I sat on the floor and cried all the way thriough !

Pinocchio at the Classic in Fitzallen Square. Scared me witless apparently.:o

i saw et at the cinema 123 on the wicker :thumbsup:

i thought that was studio 5 6 7

i cant even remember the first film i saw but i started going to the cinema when i was 13 we went to see the goonies, then we saw it every night for 2 weeks it was at the cinema down the wicker (used to be known as the flea pit)

It was Kid galahad at the cinema on Upperthorpe. For the life of me I can't remember its name but we used to go to the saturday club for 6d, with my Jusoda, or if you were rich 9d upstairs.

star wars at the gaumont it was awesome simply awesome
i was 7 years old at the time

i thought that was studio 5 6 7
yeah thats right :thumbsup: i can also remeber going to see grizley adams, can anyone remember what year that film was made ?

my first film was Peter Pan at the Odeon aged about 7

i think it was king creole at the union street pictures me mam was an elvis fan (still is)

Well not so much a movie but a newsreel, I remember Mum taking me to see Pricess Margarets wedding at the cinema at Fitzallen Square.

I also remember as achild queing up for hours at a cinekma just down from Cockaynes i think to see Cliff Richard in The Young Ones. Alittle late i remeber Mum and dad surprising my sidter and I, by taking us to a cinema I cannot remember where although just as I typed that the name Doore came into my head. Is this a place in Sheffield , i know it was near to some of my aunts friends called MR and Mrs Carr. We saw the Beatles in Its a hard Days Night wow where have all these memories been hiding!!!!!!!!!

Well not so much a movie but a Newsreel, I remember Mum taking me to see Pricess Margaret's wedding at the cinema at Fitzallen Square.

I also remember as a child queing up for hours at a cinema just down from Cockaynes I think, to see Cliff Richard in The Young Ones. A little later I remember Mum and Dad surprising my sister and I, by taking us to a cinema I cannot remember where although just as I typed that the name Doore came into my head. Is this a place in Sheffield , I know it was near to some of my aunts friends called MR and Mrs Carr. We saw the Beatles in Its a hard Days Night wow where have all these memories been hiding!!!!!!!!!

Well not so much a movie but a Newsreel, I remember Mum taking me to see Pricess Margaret's wedding at the cinema at Fitzallen Square.

I also remember as a child queing up for hours at a cinema just down from Cockaynes I think, to see Cliff Richard in The Young Ones. A little later I remember Mum and Dad surprising my sister and I, by taking us to a cinema I cannot remember where although just as I typed that the name Doore came into my head. Is this a place in Sheffield , I know it was near to some of my aunts friends called MR and Mrs Carr. We saw the Beatles in Its a hard Days Night wow where have all these memories been hiding!!!!!!!!!


The cinema just down from Cockaynes was the ABC - sadly demilished around 17 years ago. Don't recognise the DOORE one. There is a suburb called Dore, but it did not have a cinema. Try to remember where Mr & Mrs Carr lived.

The original version of King Kong, 1934 or 35, at a cinema at Handsworth. Can’t remember its name. My mother thought that with me being five years old it was a good idea to take me to see a “big monkey.” When I saw a close up of it on screen I ran out of the cinema with mum chasing after me! Result of mum’s enthusiasm? I had nightmare’s for weeks after!

Second visit was to the Balfour Cinema, Staniforth Road, to see Mickey Mouse cartoons!

Sleeping Beauty at Abbeydale Picture House.

Hi My first was laurel& hardyat the Star Ecclesall rd dont recall the name but think it was their first talkie it was 1929 iwas5, Arthur.

i saw et at the cinema 123 on the wicker :thumbsup:


Hi. Hope you don't mind me telling you it was actually Studio 5-6-7.

The Exorcist at a local working mens club, I was about 16 at the time. That film scared me to death and even to this day I will not watch it again:o
Not exactly the pictures but I remember it like it was yesterday, one guy actually fainted and had to be carried out.
I remember watching it when I 18 and it scared me good and proper I think it was the first cert 18 I watched. The scene with the crucifix was pretty gruesome...................... :gag:

Earlier this year I went to see "Mission: Impossible 3" at Valley Centertainment. It was a midweek early morning showing, in the second week of release, and I had Screen 7 all to myself!! It was brilliant! 680 seats and just me

Grease in the 70's I think - and I sang all the way through it! Much to the embarassment of my mum! She reminds me (and my kids) of this everytime it's shown on t.v.!

The first film I saw without my mum or dad with me was 'Breakdance' at the Gaumount in Barkers Pool. I went with my mate, it was 1984 and the breakers and poppers (it's taking me back now!) were breakdancing in front of the screen while the film was on! It didn't take much to amuse us in those days! Don't think I'll ever forget that!

Originally Posted by toptourist
Well not so much a movie but a Newsreel, I remember Mum taking me to see Pricess Margaret's wedding at the cinema at Fitzallen Square.

I also remember as a child queing up for hours at a cinema just down from Cockaynes I think, to see Cliff Richard in The Young Ones. A little later I remember Mum and Dad surprising my sister and I, by taking us to a cinema I cannot remember where although just as I typed that the name Doore came into my head. Is this a place in Sheffield , I know it was near to some of my aunts friends called MR and Mrs Carr. We saw the Beatles in Its a hard Days Night wow where have all these memories been hiding!!!!!!!!!


Spoke about this post with Mum and Dad last night, it seems the cinema was at Shiregreen and was called the ISOLDO CINEMA hope I spelt it right. Dad said he remembered that cinema for a different reason . During the war he and his mum were ushered there one night when there was an un exploded bomb iin their street in Shiregreen ( it ended up being in their front garden). So the home guard ushered all the people living in that area into the cinema until the bomb was diffused by a sailor who was home on leave at the time. Does anyone else recall thewir parents telling the same story ????

Bambi 1947 at the Walkley Palladium on South Rd.

the one that sticks in my mind is grease ( saw others before). just that we made a 'pink ladies' club at 'first school'.

Ace Ventura Pet Detective!

puff the magic dragon at Fitzalen Square it was so sad.....

MY first film was Sound of Music when I was 5, I loved the film, in fact still do.

Me too. I went to see it when I was about 5 too. I think it was at the Gaumont? (the one in Fitzalan Square that became Mecca)

Bambi...cinema at the Manor Top

Tarker the Otter, Pete's Dragon was full.

Originally Posted by toptourist
Well not so much a movie but a Newsreel, I remember Mum taking me to see Pricess Margaret's wedding at the cinema at Fitzallen Square.

I also remember as a child queing up for hours at a cinema just down from Cockaynes I think, to see Cliff Richard in The Young Ones. A little later I remember Mum and Dad surprising my sister and I, by taking us to a cinema I cannot remember where although just as I typed that the name Doore came into my head. Is this a place in Sheffield , I know it was near to some of my aunts friends called MR and Mrs Carr. We saw the Beatles in Its a hard Days Night wow where have all these memories been hiding!!!!!!!!!


Spoke about this post with Mum and Dad last night, it seems the cinema was at Shiregreen and was called the ISOLDO CINEMA hope I spelt it right. Dad said he remembered that cinema for a different reason . During the war he and his mum were ushered there one night when there was an un exploded bomb iin their street in Shiregreen ( it ended up being in their front garden). So the home guard ushered all the people living in that area into the cinema until the bomb was diffused by a sailor who was home on leave at the time. Does anyone else recall thewir parents telling the same story ????

Think it was the Essoldo but I haven't lived there for 35 years.

Think it was the Essoldo but I haven't lived there for 35 years.
Yes Mike it probably was , I only spelt it as I heard Dad say it, in fact I just guessed. Does anyone else recall the unexploded bomb story???????

Dumbo, at the Forum in Southey Green circa 1942.

Who can remember what the film was the first time you went to the "Pictures"....how come we never went to the Cinema ?

For me it was Disney's 'Song of the South' and I think I was seven so it would be 1947 at the Abbeydale.

My Gran also took me and my sister to see 'The Red Shoes' with Margot Fontayne at the Gaumont in Barkers Pool. Can anyone remember what year that was showing ?

GB

What a memory GB, I can't remember my first but as my grandfather no doubt took me it would have been a western. Probably at the Manor or the Rex circa 1952 but definately a western as he didn't go to anything that didn't feature six gun toting cowboys and red varments.

I was about 10 before I found out that there were films without the likes of Randolph Scott and John Wayne in them. Sorry I tell a lie, he also had a fond liking for the old silent movies and often took me to the News Theatre for these, however if the silent picture was a western that was even better.

Happy days, many thanks for reminding me. :thumbsup:

Sound of Music at either the ABC or Gaumont with my parents and baby sister. I found it so boring that I fell asleep. In fact, to this day I have never made it fully conscious to the end.


It was actually the first ODEON in Sheffield, now Mecca Bingo in Flat Street.

Think it was the Essoldo but I haven't lived there for 35 years.
The Essoldo was at Sheffield Lane Top , but during WW2 it was known as THE CAPITOL. The Forum at Southey, and Ecclesfield Cinema were also Essoldo cinemas.

Tarzan & the Leopard Women, at the Star in Ecclesall Rd.
My big sister thought I'd be frightened when the women were torturing Tarzan, so pulled my head down into her lap -- I missed the best part of the film!

Saw most early Bond films at The Abbeydale.Not been near a cinema since @1984.

The Sound of Music with my big sister at the Classic in Fitzallen Sqaure or Guess Who's Coming to Dinner at Greystones

Also remember going to see a Clockwork Orange (cert 18)at the same place with two mates when we were all only 14. One of the mates (now quite a well known actor/comedian) nearly blew our cover by asking if schoolkids had to pay full price!

For me it was Mash at the Hilltop , Now a carpet shop

I saw jungle book at the classic.

"The Good Earth" with Paul Muni, I cried when they had to kill the family ox.

I've just read through this thread right from the beginning, what a lot of brilliant films are mentioned.

My first recollection is being taken by a cousin or someone to the cinema on Union Street (The Palace I think) when I was about 3 or 4. The film was High Society and I never saw the end. From what I can recall, my relative fainted or something and we went to an office then had to leave part way through and all I can remember is being outside and crying then. I have watched it since though :) .

The Exorcist has been mentioned as the one that frightened lots of people, well for me it was Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds at Studio 5 6 7 in the Wicker. I made my boyfriend leave before the end - and to this day, I still can't bear to watch it to the end if it's on TV.

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I remember one film I saw at the Chantrey cinema. It was called "The Ape" and my grandfather had taken me. We had to leave as it was the night of the Blitz. I only lived a hundred yards from the cinema. I would have been about six years old.

Robin Hood cartoon version at the Gaumont I think.

Blue Hawaii Elvis Presley at Heeley Picture Palace. I was five at the time and went to the matinee (with a couple of friends - no adults - it was safe then!!) in a grass hula skirt!

At the Lansdown Palace,a film called "Bolero",with George Raft. There was also a 1d rush for kids on a saturday afternoon where the place was packed.
Serials were popular,it would get to an exciting point where the hero looked
like he had his chips,then it was "continued next week". We would speculate all week on the outcome,and then it was a case of "one bound and he was free" and ready to carry on his good work, In those days at the pictures,you got a news reel,a cartoon,a travelogue or "crime does not pay" short, a "B" film,and then the main feature. Today's cinemas only give you the main feature,and that's it.

On this very day in 1971.. at The Odeon in Fitzalan Square with my mates to see Kellys' Heroes.. on Paul Kennys 11th birthday.. happy birthday Paul wherever you might be...

Just come across this post Rich and yes i was with you at that film for Paul's birthday. Remember it well and i also remember his and your birthdates after all these years. Weird isnt it, sometimes cant remember what ive had for my tea yesterday!

for me it was Pollyanna with Hayley Mills and I sobbed and bawled my eyes out when she fell out of the tree - my mother had to take me home! Can't remember the year but was probably about 1958!

The next memory I have is lovely - walking home along Hollinsend Road in the dark with my mother after we had seen Cliff Richard in 'The Young Ones' - I was 6 years old and remember saying to her 'I know I will remember this forever'!

Twas a silent pre 1939 top of Wood st i had bugged my mum into taking me but the 1st one i remember snow white % 7 dwarfs when it came to Sheffield around 42-44 ?

MY first film was Sound of Music when I was 5, I loved the film, in fact still do.

My dad took me to see this when I was about 7, only time he ever took me to the flix and the first time I went to city centre.

The first film I saw was the spoof-western musical comedy "Sheriff of Fractured Jaw" (Kenneth More, Jayne Mansfield) at the Kinema in Hillsborough in 1959. The last one I saw was "The Graduate" at the Abbeydale Picture House in 1968. I'm not a regular cinemagoer....

Hopalong Cassidy at Darnall Cinema circa 1951- not sure of spelling. Anyone remember this cowboy?

Jaws at the Classic

E.T. i cant remember the cinema's name but i think the entrance was up some stairs in fitzalan square.

At one time it was caled the News theatre I think

Mine was Mary Poppins at Greystones Picture House 4or 5 at the time and thought I was really grown up being taken to the Pictures.

having read the whole thread I think I have the most appropriate.
The Full Monty at the Odeon!
Nothing like seeing the cinema you are watching the the film in appearing in the film! (its in the Sheffield promotional film at the beginning, not the main film)
I came to sheffield as a student the year before but didn't go to cinema until then

bambi at Rex cinema which is now a car park for co-op

I loved the Rex ... I can't remember what film I saw there first ... I also remember Beighton had its own Cinema .. I remember Elsie Tanner ( early Corronation Street if you don't know) at a Premier night there... god it was like Hollywood. lol
Killamarsh also had Cinema too ... I saw Mary Poppins there ... I was very traumatized. It's not a boys film ... no John Wayne or anybody cool in it!!! grrrrrrrrr
David
ps: The Rex... Me and a group of Yobs went there in the late sixties with the intention of wreaking the joint but when we got there someone had beat us to it. !!


pps: found my first girl friend there .. a young lass from the Manor ..cool :) I was 12 in 69

just notice in todays paper,Snow White is 70yrs old, and funny she 's not changed one bit (my 1st)

I suppose it's appropriate to put this posting on this thread. I watched 'The Aviator' a few days ago, Martin Scorsese's take on the life and times of Howard Hughes. I enjoyed it, good film. I was particulary taken by the sequences regarding the shooting of 'Hells Angels'. My wife looked at me 'gone out' when I casually mentioned that I'd actually seen the original. I saw it at the Roxy, about 1947, when they started opening cinemas on Sunday. Good shot of Ben Lyon in it . Jeez, I also saw the original 'King Kong there too. Never did dig why Fay Wray did all that screaming. Remember, anybody, when they used to put on really bad catagory A or H movies, when you had to ask an adult to 'Take us in, please'? Couldn't happen today, no sir.

The first film I saw was scrooged I thought it was reight good!!

My aunt took me to see Thunderbirds Are Go at the ABC in the 60's

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the cinema next to Cole Brothers.

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Disney's Jungle Book, 1966... (might have been at the Manor Cinema?)
I was two-and-a-half.

"Oooobee doo, I wanna be like You-hoo-hoo!
I wanna walk like you, talk like you..."

When I was about 3 my mum and dad wanted to go see 'The Ten Commandments' but couldn't get a babysitter. They decided to take me along with them, armed with sweets and pacifiers hoping I'd go to sleep but prepared to accept defeat and leave if I started to act up.
Apparently when the film started I stood up in my seat and never moved for three hours, totally transfixed by the screen.
Funny thing is I can still remember great swathes of the film in glorious technicolour, tho' as far as I'm aware I've never seen it since and it was over 50 years ago.
I still adore the movies and have become a bit of a film buff.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks at the Gaumont on Barkers Pool. The queue went all around the building and back onto the main street.
Can't remember how old I was but I think it was in the early 70s

1971 It was my first film too I remember the queues

When I was about 3 my mum and dad wanted to go see 'The Ten Commandments' but couldn't get a babysitter. They decided to take me along with them, armed with sweets and pacifiers hoping I'd go to sleep but prepared to accept defeat and leave if I started to act up.
Apparently when the film started I stood up in my seat and never moved for three hours, totally transfixed by the screen.
Funny thing is I can still remember great swathes of the film in glorious technicolour, tho' as far as I'm aware I've never seen it since and it was over 50 years ago.
I still adore the movies and have become a bit of a film buff.

I saw The Ten Commandments at the old Odeon in Flat Street. I have it at home on VHS. The special effects like the Red Sea opening are now a little corny. However, it is still worth watching.

I seem to think it was Rob Roy at the Classic in Fitzalan Square.

i was 9yrs old when i went to see rob roy, and it was in the square,
but what you call the classic--was the news theatre 1949/50.
they was demolishing rest of what was the marples pub on corner
in fitzalan sq, after it had been bombed. o.k.

Hopalong Cassidy at Darnall Cinema circa 1951- not sure of spelling. Anyone remember this cowboy?I love this thread, yeah I remember Hopalong Cassidy, he wore a WHITE hat.

The first film I can remember seeing is Snow white at Sheffield Lane top. Late 60's

The first film at the pictures in West Melton was Quatermas and the Pit, with mi dad. The week after I saw The Nuns of Monza with mi mam. The scary to the soppy, I preferred the first. Used to go to the Saturday morning cartoon matinee...great

Its that long ago I can't remember, I can honestly say (tongue in cheek) it was at the flicks in those days that I taught myself to lip read, what does come to mind is The Three Stooges, Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autrey, all the films in magnificent black and white.

Think it was "Man with the Golden Gun" (definitely a Bond) at the Abbeydale, with love of my life Nicola Thompson (eary 70's)

How about first one took a date to. Mine was South Pacific at the ABC.

Can remember vividly walking from Liverpool Street, up the hill to Adelphi, holding my nannans hand skippin n grinnin from ear to ear (was 21 at time) :) No I was about 8 n was going to see Sound of Music ..................

Can remember vividly walking from Liverpool Street, up the hill to Adelphi, holding my nannans hand skippin n grinnin from ear to ear (was 21 at time) :) No I was about 8 n was going to see Sound of Music ..................

Same here, remember going to odeon in fitzallen sq, was about 5 and went to see sound of music, also rememeber going to see bambi about same age and dad taking us to see one million years bc. was only about 6 or 7, god knows why he took us to see that, he must have fancied raquel welch, god bless him..:)
Sound of music is still my fave film ever.

Us kids would go to the Saturday Matinee at the Phoenix on Langsett Road, opposite Hillsborough Barracks, back in the 50s. Our favourite was always Norman Wisdom.

Our family treat every Saturday night was to go into Hillsborough, to the Park Cinema or Kinema, sometimes the Phoenix. On the way home we would get chips 'n cake (we couldn't afford fish in those days) from the fish 'n chip shop on Rudyard Road and then go to Jack's, at the top of Bamforth Street for a hot drink of Sarsaparilla.

I can remember seeing lots of films from the fifties, mainly war films or cowboys. One favourite was The River of No Return with that blond girl - what's 'er name? - must have been my first crush.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xaqmValBiOo

Oh - the memories... The three cinemas that Nodens mentions were also the regular ones where I grew up. Occasionally we'd go further afield to the Unity, Roscoe or Don. The first film I remember seeing was The Ladykillers (Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom) at the Park Cinema in about 1956 - hilariously funny. Jack's sarsparilla bar was also a regular haunt. Jack Lee must have retired in the mid-1970s; I doubt if you can get properly-brewed sarsparilla now - delicious hot or cold.

star wars.... at the abc... got me hooked on sci fi it did...

Oh - the memories... The three cinemas that Nodens mentions were also the regular ones where I grew up. Occasionally we'd go further afield to the Unity, Roscoe or Don. The first film I remember seeing was The Ladykillers (Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom) at the Park Cinema in about 1956 - hilariously funny. Jack's sarsparilla bar was also a regular haunt. Jack Lee must have retired in the mid-1970s; I doubt if you can get properly-brewed sarsparilla now - delicious hot or cold.

Hey beechnut
I bought a stoneware bottle of Mawson's Sarsaparilla (made to the original recipe) at the Rheged Centre, near Penrith, Cumbria last year. It's the first time I've had any since those days of my childhood. As I drank it I closed my eyes and for a minute I was back in Jack's in the good old days.

i can remember going to see tommy steele in tommy the toriadore at the cinema house in barkers pool .My mum used to work at the original Odeon in flat street i can remember going there to see steeve reeves in the last days of pompei.She used to get a pass to let you in for free so i saw quite a lot of films in the late 50s early 60s

my first film i saw at the pictures was Oliver in around 1969 thought it was great. I was only 6 i can't remember which cinema it was though

101 dalmations at esseldo at lane top, late 60,s. that cruella de ville woman was scary. 30 years later i married the twisted bitch

it was either "the battle of britain" or "where eagles dare" can't remember whch cinema possibly abc or gaumont,it was a school trip one afternoon (myers grove) both great films.
the scariest i've ever seen was the "devil rides out" that was way back in the seventies at the studio 567 (can't remeber any of the actors/actress) it frightened the living daylights out of my then girlfriend so much so she woke her parents at around 2.30 am saying she could'nt sleep.boy did i get a right old rollocking of her father,god bless him,gone to the great rollocking platform in the sky.:wave: :wave:

The Devil Rides Out. Cast includes Charles Gray, Christopher Lee and Sarah Lawson.

think it was gi blues at the old rex cinema n ust 2 go 2 the old abc on a sat mornin wen i was young

I can remember watching Snow White & Pinocchio at the Crookes Palace circa 1949. In 1950 I saw Cinderella and Treasure Island starring Robert Newton ( all Disney classics ) at the Gaumont. Remember the follow up
" The Adventures of Long John Silver " on TV ?
Another film that sticks in my memory is Captain Blood with Errol Flynn in the leading role. Although made in 1935 , before I was born , I saw it at the Hippodrome in the early 50's.

I can remember being taken to see Jungle Book when I was quite young, found out later it was because my Mum was giving birth to my younger Bro.

For me it was The empire strikes back at the Gaumont

The first film that I still have memories of is 'The Sound Of Music' around 1965 at the old Odeon on Flat Street. It still makes me shudder to think about it. However the most important 'first film' was the one I went to without my parents (well, my mother. My dad couldn't bother his a*se). That was 2001 A Space Oddysey at the ABC Angel Street (c1969). Remember it? The ceiling looked like the starship Enterprise. It was also amazing that I was assistant manager of the place less than 15 years later. Still had carbon arc projectors at the time. Also had the second largest Todd AO (70MM) screen in the UK. Those were the days.

Any film & projection technology buffs out there? Lets talk. I worked in an awful lot of cinemas and ex-cinemas. Still got some momento's.

get in touch with tsavo

Mrs Miniver at a cinema on the Middlewwood road at Malin Bridge about 1944

West side story when I was about 5. My older sister took me. Think its only because she wanted to see the film herself. Years later I have the DVD and know all the songs. Lol

Paul Muni in the Good Earth, when I was very, very young.

I dont know which cinema it was, but my dad took me to see Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs. I loved it, but me dad fell asleep!:hihi:

Star Wars- 1977, The Gaumont, Barkers Pool.
We had to queue for hours in the rain and there was a film about off road biking on before the woman came with her tray of ice cream.

Those were the days! :thumbsup:

I also remember going to see Alice in Wonderland and Candleshoe at the Classic. A classy joint! One of those places where when you rang up to ask the time the film started, they would reply- "What time can you get here?":hihi:

hiya my earliest film was i think( sunvalley serenade) sonja henie, at the hippodrome,or the( four feathers) lesley banks,at the manor,or one of the films eg boston blackie(chester morris) ,charlie chan,or bowery boys, or roy rodgers,or durango kid(charles starret)at the weston, never understood why there were no gene autrey films at the bughut only saw them at the scala. or the diamond horseshoe (betty grable)at the palace union street,as you may gather i started going to the pictures at an early age the time when there were no tv and very few wireless's in the early fourties.the last one was the adams family with two of my grand-children, we still laugh about it my grandson told me to stop snoring i was nodding off after 10 minutes

Also Bedknobs and Broomsticks! And I could watch it again today!!!! Though if it was released in 1971 I must have seen it on a re-release as I was still in nappies then!!!!

And have just realised this is the reason for my lifelong desire to have a cast iron bedstead! Saw the film about 1976 and only got one two months ago!!!! Only took 26 years. Hope it doesnt take me as long to get everything else I want in life

:lol:

A part from the Saturday mattanee's at the Roscoe & the Star,
I think after we queuing right down the street with our mom & dad to see Rock around the Clock at the Upperthorpe Cinema (I think was the name) next door or below was the Upperthorpe swimming baths (just up the road from the Royal Infirmary hospital)

It must have been at either the Regal or Darnal Cinema on a Saturday, maybe Cisco Kid or that awful Woody Woodpecker. Does anyone remember a serial called Nioca (no idea of the spelling) the jungle girl, none of my friends can remember it.

i remember this serial i posted this on an earlier post it was in the 1940s at the star cinema, i think the name was nyoka the jungle girl, another was brick bradford, and tarzan, of course superman ,this was at crookes palace. at the little dick as my aunts called the darnal cinema they had the durango kid charles starrett, my nan lived ont manor

i know it was not the cinema but i remember queueing at the empire theatre when i was a lad just after wwii, and seeing a bloke selling a paper called billy's weekly liar do's anyone else remember it.

Escape to Victory at the Gaumont, won a competition in the Star, got told off by my mum as i lay in the aisle to watch as that was how i watched tv at home...

still love that film!

Ha,

I think I was one of many childern of my generation who first saw 'The Land Before Time'!

Ha,

I think I was one of many childern of my generation who first saw 'The Land Before Time'!

Oooohhh I love that film!!

The first film I ever saw in the cinema was Titanic I think.

I love this thread, yeah I remember Hopalong Cassidy, he wore a WHITE hat.

My first films were all at the Western (or the Bug Hut !) in 1939.Hopalong Cassidy ,complete with the famous white stetson,played by William Boyd.He also had regular sidekick whose name escapes me,but Clint Eastwood always reminded me of him when he first appeared.Other Cowboy stars were Roy Rogers and Trigger the Wonder horse.Gene Autrey ,the singing cowboy.Later along came the Tarzan films with ex Olympic swimming champion Johnnny Weismuller.

First time I ever saw a film in Sheffield, I am fairly sure it was a french canadian subtitled film about a bloke who played Christ in a passion play, who then started to believe he was Christ - sounds arty? Saw it at The Anvil!!! About 1988/89! I was about 15 ish and thought I was oh so cultured watching foreign dross an hour away from home!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_of_Montreal

About 1963,I was 6 or 7 my mum took me to watch a panto except it was full before we got there..because we couldn't get in there we went to the Odeon and she enjoyed watching bloomin' Oklahoma! If I didn't know better I'd think she'd done it on purpose

The 1st film I remember seeing at the cinema was 'Song of the South' it was at the ABC on Angel Street. It was maybe 1975. It was the 1st time I'd seen live action and cartoon. Don't really remember the film, but i do remember the song 'Zipedee doo daa'. There was also a short nature film before the main picture, again I don't remember what that was about!

My first films were all at the Western (or the Bug Hut !) in 1939.Hopalong Cassidy ,complete with the famous white stetson,played by William Boyd.He also had regular sidekick whose name escapes me,but Clint Eastwood always reminded me of him when he first appeared.Other Cowboy stars were Roy Rogers and Trigger the Wonder horse.Gene Autrey ,the singing cowboy.Later along came the Tarzan films with ex Olympic swimming champion Johnnny Weismuller.

hiya one of his sidekicks was i,m sure fuzzy knight, another was one whose horse had a white ring around one of its eyes, roy rogers had gabby hayes, what about the bowery boys leo gourcy,huntz hall,( mugs, satch) also durango kid ,sisco kid, i think they wiped all the baddies out between them.c same here weston twice a week tuesday and saturday in the fourties with my mum and nan.

Anyone old enough to remember going to wincobank picture palace.
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Event Horizon, around 1997. I love the whole concept of hell being let loose from another dimension. Unfortunately it was my first experience of a Paul W. S. Anderson directed film, if only it was my last

I think my first trip to the pictures was "Hard Days night" The beatles, or it could have been "help". It was at the Park Cinema in Hillsborough( where Netto is now)

..mine I think was The Sound of Music, the first 'good' film I saw in a cinema was Diamonds are Forever!

I have memories of being taken to a showing of "Dr No" as a tot of about 18 months/ 2 yrs. not for me to see but (natch!) with my mum and dad.

I was taken to see Disney's The Jungle Book at the age of about 2 1/2 at the Manor cinema (was Somerfield, now Tesco at Manor top).

About 1946 GOD IS MY CO PILOT sunbeam cinema fir vale long gone like a lot more cinemers in 1951 ther was some 52 in sheffield film changed twice weekley 2 house per night and queue to get in on saturdays

Pretty sad but first film I remember seeing is Watership Down at the Gaumont think it was late 70's.

I have memories of being taken to a showing of "Dr No" as a tot of about 18 months/ 2 yrs. not for me to see but (natch!) with my mum and dad.

I was taken to see Disney's The Jungle Book at the age of about 2 1/2 at the Manor cinema (was Somerfield, now Tesco at Manor top).

Giving your age away there, PT! :hihi:

first film took my then girlfriend to see LAST TANGO IN PARIS hell what a shock .past the butter.

Giving your age away there, PT! :hihi:

:blush: but I'm still no'bbut babe in arms! ;)

It was definitely a "Bond" film, it was definitely set somewhere exotic, with beautiful blue seas, and it was around 1966.

BoyFriday... it might have been "Thunderball", which had a 1965 release date, and has scenes set in the Bahamas...

BoyFriday... it might have been "Thunderball", which had a 1965 release date, and has scenes set in the Bahamas...

I think that's the one PT, which must make you about.......27 ;)

..mine I think was The Sound of Music, the first 'good' film I saw in a cinema was Diamonds are Forever!

You weren't that little kid with the runny nose, constantly eating popcorn were you? If so I sincerely apologise for shoving your catapult in a place where it had to be surgically removed. :hihi:

I think that's the one PT, which must make you about.......27 ;)

slightly older, BF... Thirty-four *cough, cough! *

I just remember beautiful white beaches, sean connery, and a beautiful blue sea, and a boat.... hehe

edit to add I presumed it had to be Dr No, despite a (?) 1962 (?) release date, because of the iconic Caribbean beach scenes, and the beautiful Ursula Undressed (*cough* ) coming out of the sea in that chamois bikini.

slightly older, BF... Thirty-four *cough, cough! *

I just remember beautiful white beaches, sean connery, and a beautiful blue sea, and a boat.... hehe

edit to add I presumed it had to be Dr No, despite a (?) 1962 (?) release date, because of the iconic Caribbean beach scenes, and the beautiful Ursula Undressed (*cough* ) coming out of the sea in that chamois bikini.

Dr No was screened at the Hippodrome on Cambridge Street in 1962, you must have been nowt but a kid then. ;)

Dr No was screened at the Hippodrome on Cambridge Street in 1962, you must have been nowt but a kid then. ;)

No'bbut a twinkle in my daddy's eye, at that point!

No'bbut a twinkle in my daddy's eye, at that point!

Thanks for making me feel like a neanderthal, you cheeky young sod. ;)

The Invisible Man with Claude Rains it was round the back at the Heeley Coliseum. We used to say "will yer teck us in mister" Heaven only knows what year that was !!
I think it must have been in someone else's lifetime ! not mine you understand.
Bob.

The Invisible Man with Claude Rains it was round the back at the Heeley Coliseum. We used to say "will yer teck us in mister" Heaven only knows what year that was !!
I think it must have been in someone else's lifetime ! not mine you understand.
Bob.

You posh bugger, we used to say mester. :hihi:

Dr No was screened at the Hippodrome on Cambridge Street in 1962, you must have been nowt but a kid then. ;)

I thought I saw it at the Gaumont in '62 but it was a while ago.

Yes Crooksey, we were posh, we'd moved up to Meersbrook ! Not quite Beechif but we didn't want anyone to think we'd been born in Eely even if we had.
Bob.

Mary Poppins with my mum and Zulu with my dad, I was about 5 think it was the same year for both films.... what a treat! Had Kia-Ora and a box of Fruit Pastilles

In the 50s a lot of the cinemas used to do special programmes for kids on Saturday mornings. Our local was the Coliseum on London road. Mostly Charlie Chaplain and the Three Stooges etc. Flash Gordon was the best laugh - some of the special effects could have been done better by the Blue Peter team with cardboard, glue and poster paint.

Occasionally we'd go the the News Theatre in Fitzalan Square - it was a continuous show there and you could sit and watch it all day if you wanted.

GB

I too went to the Classic or News theatre in the square i THINK? the first film i was taken too was THE GREAT CARUSO with Mario Lanza and the good old Pathe News showing like you i always went to the Sat morning rush but at the STAR CINEMA on Ecclesall rd friends and i used to collect old rags and take them to the rag shop on Button lane to get the entrance fee plus collect old newspapers to take to Wards chip shop on Ecclesall rd we would come out of the cinema and go in the two sasperella shops on Ecclesall rd one opposite + one closer to Wards chippy also during the intervale at the Star there was always some sort of entertainment put on i seem to remember a so called YO YO world champion one time also a cowboy with whip & lasso tricks good old Hopalong Cassidy was not in the same league as him as for collecting rags we used to put bricks in amongst the rags to make them weigh heavier or when told to take them to the pile at the bottom of the yard walk out with the same sack and take it back a bit later anything for extra money where abouts was the Coliseum London rd are you thinking Heeley bottom BUG HUT then there was also the Bug Hut South st PARK and Greystones cinema all had the Sat morn rush i cant remember if the Hippodrome ever did it but i do remember on a regular basis a group of us would pool together and pay the entrance fee for one to go in and open the exit door for the rest of us to gain entry and it was always the same lad picked to do the dirty work HAPPY DAYS.

Anybody remember frozen Jubilees and Icepops.

You weren't that little kid with the runny nose, constantly eating popcorn were you? If so I sincerely apologise for shoving your catapult in a place where it had to be surgically removed. :hihi: I left it in crookesey came in handy in later life as a bar stool ;)

Star wars at the gaumont back in 77 i was 7 awesome movie awesome cinema i miss the gaumont

I think it might have been 'Picnic' starring William Holden and Kim Novak in 1955.

first film took my then girlfriend to see LAST TANGO IN PARIS hell what a shock .past the butter.

Reminds me of one Christmas day morning when we lived at Handsworth. Mrs Hardie asked me to nip down to Darnall for half a pound of Lurpak. Anything else we want love? Yeah, bring a cucumber if they've got one.
I got some funny looks from the two Pakistani gents that served me.

i miss it too as my mum worked there and she used to get a free pass for being one of their employers which meant i got to see some great films for nothing

It was " Wizard of Oz " with Judy Garland at the Paragon cinema, Sicey Avenue, Firth Park .
My Grandad took me to a matinee in the school hols & he got in half price, we went quite a lot & we saw the Doris Day film " Calamity Jane " & other cowboy films !! It was about 1950 & I was 7 I think . We also went to the Essoldo , Barnsley Road ,down the hill from Sheffield Lane top.
Those were the days !!

Barbara

Who can remember what the film was the first time you went to the "Pictures"....how come we never went to the Cinema ?

For me it was Disney's 'Song of the South' and I think I was seven so it would be 1947 at the Abbeydale.

My Gran also took me and my sister to see 'The Red Shoes' with Margot Fontayne at the Gaumont in Barkers Pool. Can anyone remember what year that was showing ?

GB

The first film I saw in Sheffield was Trapeze, starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and La Lollo Gina Lollobrigida. This was at the Odeon now no longer there, it would have been around 1956/7.

It was either Bedknobs and Broomsticks or Mary Poppins and I still get all nostalgic when they're repeated on TV:)

Clash of the titans in 1981 :)

Three Stooges and Hopalong Cassidy at the Saturday afternoon matinees. Ritz cinema, Parson Cross

Beauty and the Beast at Meadowhall when I was about 4 :)

I remember it well..... 1963, when president Kennedy was assassinated. I was in the cinema watching Bambis mother been killed. Well that was my alibi at the time!

'The King and I' at the Ritz on Wordsworth Avenue

Think it might have been Sound Of Music....waaaayyy back.:huh: