The Movie From Your Childhood... — Page 2

It probably was a draw between Beauty and the Beast and Pocahontas. Possibly with Lion King trailing not too far behind.

I was totally obsessed with "Charlotte's Web"...
I remember sitting on the couch with my mother and crying everytime the movie ended. *g*

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I know I wore out a Care Bears tape that was about some evil thing taking over kids at a camp.


Also, I played the **** out of An American Tail

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Tie between Mary Poppins, Pippi Langstrumpf (Pippi Longstocking) & Ariel (The little Mermaid). I LOVED them!!!!!

DG and Red Hot, I was 3-8 from 1988-1993 and I though we had a VCR, I could not just "pop in a movie" whenever I felt like it....my sister, the neighborhood kids and I spend our days building bike ramps, "exploring" our town on tricycles, bikes, skates, etc... (yes, were I live that was still possible. I walked myself to preschool when I was 4!), and ran around the woods. We also had the bright idea to go from door to door selling our drawings when I was 5 and ended up making about 100 DM (~$50) my mom was MORTIFIED...

"I'm right there with DG - I'm even older, so there was no opportunity to watch movies repeatedly. We played outside, used our imaginations, read books, made things with our hands, painted, sculpted, daydreamed."

Ahh,for those good old days before technology took over the world and made everyone so dependent upon gadgets.

Having had a favorite movie does not mean we spent our days glued to the screen...lol.

Well said B12B---Your first paragraph was exactly what I was thinking!

My father was the media advisor for his school district, and so we were lucky enough to have some of the first VCR type equiptment at our disposal. I do remember the summer he brought home a Beta-max machine and the movie "1776", and I watched that non-stop. (Of course, it was the only movie he brought home, strangely enough!)

That meant that we often had access to a real movie projector too, and our local library had a great collection of movies that you could borrow. They mostly lent them to the schools---I can't tell you the number of times we saw The Red Balloon and The Velveteen Rabbit---but if you had a projector you could take them out. We used to rent Shirley Temple movies and Charlotte's Web and Soup and Me.

Of course, the library also had filmstrips and these portable filmstrip machines you could check out. I remember being very fond of the "Sleeping Beauty" filmstrip and watching it many times! And you had to be paying attention, or you'd miss the little "ding" on the tape, and then the picture wouldn't match what they were saying!

All Dogs Go to Heaven. I'm pretty sure the rest of the family hated it.

"But repeat viewings of films were impossible..."

Not true for those of us who lived in the NYC area and watched WOR-TV's "Million Dollar Movie" as I mentioned above. They repeated the same movie every night for a week and that had showings all day Saturday and Sunday.

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jimnysf---I assume you didn't grow up in the '60s and '70s?

In a way, I'm glad I didn't have instant access to The Wizard of Oz and other favorites during my childhood. It made their showings that much more special when they did turn up on TV or at the movie theatre for a weekend kiddie matinee series. It was truly an emotional event each time. I remember doing strange things like putting my (clunky) portable reel-to-reel audio tape recorder up to the tiny speaker on our TV (console) and telling everyone to be quiet while I tried to record the soundtrack to the whole film during a viewing. I remember being so disappointed when the cuckoo clock went off, because I'd forgotten to stop it while I was taping.

I remember racing to my drawing pads so I could sketch a character or a set, or a scene so I could remember it better... until the next airing a year later.

If I had been able to watch these movies repeatedly, and whenever I felt like it, I don't believe my imagination and resourcefulness wouldn't have been sparked in such a way.

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JerseyGirl2 ~ I *loved* The Last Unicorn! I was going to post that and I was surprised to see that it was one of your favorites as well.

My neighbors had a videotape of Pollyanna and I watched it everytime I babysat their kids.

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Here's my story:

This is a story my mom told me that had me literally laughing my butt off. As a little kid I was obsessed with Barney. Not gonna lie, I had a purple wardrobe. My parents wanted to take me to my first movie, and it was going to be Beauty and the Beast. The only problem was, Barney was not in that, and I refused to see things that the name "Barney" was not in. So my mom told me that it was called "Beauty Barney Beast." Apparently I loved the movie, but didn't understand why Barney never showed up. When it came out on VHS I'd watch it ALL THE TIME, searching for Barney. True story.

I also had one of these. Anyone remember the Pioneer Disco Vision Player? It was later changed to Laser Disc. MCA Universal put out a bunch of discs but the player and the discs were very large.

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We New Yorkers were lucky. We had Channels 2,4,5,7,9,11 and 13. Most people I know only had 3 or even less stations. I remember when HBO came out as a pilot. They played the same movie over and over. "Blazing Saddles" comes to mind as one of the first they had. Then they expanded and started mixing up their schedule. Now I have hundreds of stations on Digital Cable and there is still nothing on.

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