First Film you saw at the Cinema in Sheffield

[willybite]

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

Edited April 4, 2012 by willybite

[garthai]

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

 

 

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)

[willybite]

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.

Edited March 12, 2010 by willybite

[longiesta]

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!

[gregbish]

Ha,

 

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

[Amaranthus]

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.

Edited February 18, 2010 by Amaranthus

[S A C]

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.

Edited February 18, 2010 by S A C

[Lady Star]

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

Edited February 19, 2010 by Lady Star

[truman]

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

[Frohike]

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!