First Disney movie you saw in the theaters?

[Dr.Pepper]

Mine was the Lion King many, many years ago.

[Michael24]

First one for me was The Black Cauldron, waaaaay back in 1985, though my memory of it is pretty fuzzy. I remember seeing The Great Mouse Detective, the following year, much better. (I've only seen five Disney movies in the theater. After those two, I also saw Oliver & Company, The Rescuers Down Under, and Chicken Little.)

[IDistractedYou]

The first Disney movie I saw in the theatre was either the Fox and the Hound or the Black Cauldron. The first that I saw and truly remember begining to end was Oliver and Company.

[Luna]

I honestly don't know(I do remember that the first movie I ever saw in the theater was Annie).....I do remember seeing many Disney movies in theaters during my childhood,including The Great Mouse Detective,Snow White,Cinderella,Oliver and Co,Bambi,and The Little Mermaid....

[Dudley]

Back when I was really young, my mom took me to see a screening of the 101 Dalmations (which, in retrospect, is kinda odd) and I got scared by all the flashings spots in the OP. Since i started crying, we had to leave the theater. I was scarred for life and I never went into a movie theater again, until I was forced to watch the Lion King in theaters. I had my hands covering my ears the whole time (because I didn't like loud noises), so I didn't really get to enjoy the movie.
And four years after that, I saw a special screening of Tarzan in South Africa, where I finally got over my fear of going to the movies.

[Dee]

I don't really recall my earliest Disney film---- but I do recall seeing Ernest Saves Christmas.

Go figure.

I do however recall seeing a freebie matinee of Snow White.

[Conan-san]

Snow White 1990 reshowing.

[Tintin]

Mine's is i think the 1992 re-showing of Pinnochio

[Aldrius]

Beauty and the Beast I think.

[Harukuro]

Mine is "The Lion King". It still is one of my favs:anime:

[Prof. Mecavio]

The first one I saw was 'Aladdin'.

[Dee]

Snow White 1990 reshowing.

I think I actually saw it before then. It was a local event sponsored by something where they obtained the permission to play a print of the movie.

Maaann it was forever ago.

[Elven Moon]

Oh gosh, I don't even know. It was probably either Cinderella (they did a reshowing in theaters in the 80s) or Oliver and Company. I can remember how crazy the line was to see Oliver. Such long lines!

[TnAdct1]

The first Disney film that I remembered seeing in the theaters was the Black Cauldron back when I was four years old.

[Ray Pointer]

You really are all "kids," aren't you? My first Disney movie experience was BAMBI in 1956.

[Lord Dalek]

Bambi (1989 reissue)

Second was Little Mermaid.

[Peter Paltridge]

I'm not entirely sure. I can remember snips of the earliest films I can recall seeing: "The Care Bears Movie" and "An American Tail" in 1986. Neither are Disney. My preschool somehow showed Bedknobs and Broomsticks in movie reel form, but that wasn't technically in a theater.

I remember going to "Roger Rabbit," but nothing before then under the Disney brand. I might have seen something before then, but I have no memory of what. As for Black Cauldron, I wrote down that I saw it in 1990 under its reissue name "Taran and the Magic Cauldron." And DANG, I sure wish I could remember any of it.....


I think I actually saw it before then. It was a local event sponsored by something where they obtained the permission to play a print of the movie.

Maaann it was forever ago.
You're both wrong. Snow White was officially reissued in 1988 I believe. I saw it then too.

[Anthonynotes]

First Disney film might've been either "The Fox and the Hound" (1981) or the late 70's re-release of Pinocchio (IIRC what my parents told me; I would've been a preschooler at the time of Pinocchio's 1978 rerelease).

[ToOn~g@l]

You know I don't really remember but I think it was Oliver and Company, not totally sure though.

[Figaro]

I vaguely remember seeing the 1978 rerelease of PINOCCHIO with my dad. (I was three years old.) The first Disney film I remember seeing when it was ORIGINALLY released was THE FOX AND THE HOUND three years later.

As much as I like DVD, man, I would love to see some of those movies on the big screen again.

By thy side,

Figaro

[Ishtar]

Mine was Beauty & The Beast (1991). I still have vague memories of being in the theatre during the scene where Maurice encounters the Beast.

[faze2]

I recently bought the Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, and it dawned on me that the first Disney movie I saw in theaters was Pirates of Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. All other Disney movies I either saw on VHS or DVD. :D I just couldn't bring myself to ticket counter to ask for a ticket for The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, or Beauty and the Beast.

[RedNinja84]

Oliver and Company in either 1987 or 1988 I believe.

[Bugsmer]

"Cool Runnings", back when it was new. Thank God for home video!