What was the first movie I saw? I can't say for sure, but a strong contender is The Monkey's Uncle, a Disney comedy about a college inventor called Merlin Jones. I saw it when I was three, just before my family sailed to England for a year. (I'm sure of this because when we got onto the ship we had a comic book of The Monkey's Uncle with us.) I remember that the sun was still up when we went in, but it was dark when we came out.
Another movie I saw at an early age was The Great Race, which we saw in England on my brother Donald's birthday. The first scene was set on a fairground that looked huge when I was four, but less impressive when I saw the movie as a grownup. And the scene where Tony Curtis swam up to the dark tower and climbed into it for a sword fight with the bad guy really scared me.
I also saw Mary Poppins, and the opening scene where the camera descended from the clouds to street level made a big impression on me. And I saw The Three Stooges Meet Hercules too. I think I saw Oliver Twist and freaked out during the scene where the crowd's chasing him and yelling, "Stop, thief!" And I saw animated movies like The Man Called Flintstone and some Disney movies like Peter Pan, Bambi and Cinderella. (Even back then, I found the "Bibbity, bobby, boo" song annoying.)
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