What was the first Disney movie you remember seeing & where did this happen?

Bambi, at the Egyptian Theater, Delta Colorado when I was about 3 or 4 years old.

Bambi. At a theater in Florida.

The Great Mouse Detective. I’m pretty sure it was at home on VHS.

Fantasia, I think, at a grand old movie house in Fort Worth called The Parkway Theater. It was an incredibly powerful experience.

Many years later I took the young daughter of a friend to see it, thinking she would love it has much as I did. Ah, the TV-computer generation! She was so bored, we had to leave halfway through.

The Rescuers. My mom took me to see it at a small, one screen theater on Main Street called The Flag. It’s not my favorite Disney film, by far, though it is good. My favorite is Beauty and the Beast. I saw that at a small two screen movie theater with my mom and sister.

Bambi. I don’t remember where, but I think it must have been at a theatre.

Scarface.
I didn’t like his little friend!At all! :(

It was Bambi, if I recall. I was being babysat with some other kids and we were all watching it. It’s not my favourite Disney movie though, but I do remember being freaked out by that huge forest fire and how Bambi’s mom didn’t make it.

I think it was Hercules… on the Atlantida cinema in Lanzarote, Spain.

I always loved Greek mythology since I saw that movie

@Curio I love that one, too. I think it’s one of the last few ones that really looked like someone had really hand drawn it. I miss those. That’s why I loved the Princess and the Frog.

Bambi w/my mother . Did Bambi die? Some animal died and she said I was crying so loudly she had to take me out of the theater.

The Little Mermaid, in Redwood City, CA. I’ve been told that we had to leave the theater, so greatly did Ursula the Sea Witch distress me.

The Song of The South at the Joylan Theatre in my hometown. I went with my mom.

Fox and the Hound… VHS…. I think ..Gosh I don’t have a good memory to remember that far back. Goodness…. I am lucky I remember to put underwear on.

The Little Mermaid – at a friends house! Now I’m off to sing “Unda da see..unda da see…”

Beauty and the Beast I saw it in a theatre somewhere here in Colorado.

The Love Bug, my sister took me to the cinema to see it when first released. I haven’t seen it, or any other Herbie film since.

Snow White

Fantasia in the theater…
...a billion years ago, too!

I couldn’t tell you.

I know by the time I was three or four, I had melted my VHS copies of Sleeping Beauty, Bambi, and Cinderella. I was big into Little Mermaid, Fantasia, and Beauty and the Beast as well.

All these newfangled Disney movies can’t hold a candle to those six, in my opinion.

Bambi and it was at home. But I didn’t actually see the whole movie. I got the part where Bambi’s mother dies started crying and left the room. I think I was about 4 or 5.

Little Mermaid after school in my 2nd grade classroom. No, it’s not my favorite Disney movie. If anything, it’s one of least favorites. I just remember thinking Ariel is really annoying. Years later, I still feel the same way.

Song of the South, a cartoon, that was later banned due to it’s content.

I believe it was The Little Mermaid, or Bambi

I’ve never seen Bambi. How strange.

@truecomedian I’ve never seen more than a snippet of Song of the South, and what I suppose is a summary in Walt Disney’s America. Was it really all that bad?
Oh, and Splash Mountain. I hated that ride.

@Nullo
Honestly, even though this could blow up in my face, I liked it, I thought it was a good movie. I was just a kid, I wasn’t aware of the archtypical symbolism of what the south could be about. There was a tar baby, a kid, made of tar, that looked like a little negro kid, it was a trap for the Rabbit, who was my favorite character, the Bear and Fox were going to trap him with it. That and Uncle Remus, he was cool. It is sort of a shame that it can’t be viewed. They tried to redo it, but I think that blew up in Disney’s face, insult to the injury some people felt was racist. It was called Song of the South, and it was real loose with the overall vibe of the movie, which was comical at times, it’s Disney. I hate censorship, I think it might be possible to buy it on Beta Max from England, a truly free country.

@truecomedian I dunno; lately it’s been looking suspiciously Orwellian.
Thanks for the response.
I’d bet good money that someone out there on the wide web has a copy.

@truecomedian per snopes.com the film was not banned, but merely withheld by the Disney Corp, except for a release in theaters in 1972, 1981, and 1986, and has never been released on home video.

Absolutely beauty and the beast. I’ve probably seen it 100 times.

Well, I know I’ve seen other movies before this one, but the first one I remember is The Lion King. My dad took me and my 3 siblings to see it in theaters, and we got there late so we had to be in the first row…(ugh.) All I remember is seeing the huge, yellow Mufasa blob before I fell asleep on my dad’s lap.

@Nullo, @YARNLADY

Just saying

It was only released in PAL format – not typical USA and Canada VHS, but if you have a PAL player, you can get it.

I’ve never seen it, but the storybook I have (printed in 1955), has the story of the Tar Baby in it. That, and what you see on Splash Mountain, is all I know of Song of the South.

Pinocchio on VHS. I watched it everyday while my older siblings were gone at school.

Cinderella in New York City.