Kids' Movie Day
3I’m declaring August 29 a special Meh holiday, Kids’ Movie Day.
One source, which is almost certainly wrong, shows August 29, 1964, as the opening day of Mary Poppins. But I’m going with it since I have been planning this holiday for a few days and August 27, which is more likely correct, has passed. Besides, movies have multiple opening dates depending upon location, and who is to say it did not open on August 29 somewhere?
As you may have guessed already, Mary Poppins is my favorite kids’ movie, or at least my favorite one from when I was a kid. What’s yours?
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The original Lion King was always a favorite. Also, Beauty and the Beast.
@RiotDemon I took a day off work to take my kids to The Lion King for the first matinee on opening day. We went to Burger King first and they enjoyed the big play yard (the kind with the tubes I call Habitrails for Humanity). It was a great day.
I remember watching Peter Pan and Wizard of OZ as a kid, though they were on TV. Don’t really remember going to the theater until I was older. Can’t say that I saw Mary Poppins in the cinema though I would have been the right age (9 in '64)
@chienfou I did see it in a cinema. It had a long opening run so I would have been just on either side of turning eight. The first movie I remember seeing in a theatre was Babes in Toyland (1961), although it’s likely I went with my family to a drive-in theater before that.
I liked all things Godzilla as a kid but that was before cable and VHS and the ability to watch the same movie every day. So here’s my daughter’s favorite movie- which we watched every day.
I just looked it up and realized Sisqo is in it. I went to a Dru Hill concert last year. It rained.
@sammydog01 this movie was cute, one of my mom’s favorites! If she flipped through TV and it was on, you bet she watched it.
My favorite ‘kid’s’ movie, and still my favorite movie of all time, is the 1995 Universal animated film Balto. A glorious bit of hand-drawn animation with a heartwarming (and true!) story, that I truly believe would have done far better at the box office if it hadn’t released on the same opening weekend as the original Toy Story. The film is also tragically underrepresented in merchandising, and isn’t even mentioned once throughout Universal’s entire theme parks. Balto himself is also responsible for turning me into a furry, so there’s that. Some of you may remember that I had a run of inflatable Balto toys made up several years back, as well.
@PooltoyWolf You been to the Burgh for the convention?
@jimmyd103 I have never made Anthrocon, no. Had plans in 2014 but they fell through. I do, however, attend my home con Megaplex. Been every single year since 2009. (Except for this year due to its cancellation…it was supposed to have been last weekend. :C)
I have also attended Furry Weekend Atlanta and Anthro New England (Boston).
@PooltoyWolf It was canceled this year, no surprise there. It’s makes for some good conversation during my lunch hour each year. I have met some interesting people over the years.
@jimmyd103 For a very long time, Anthrocon was the biggest furry con in the world. Recently it was surpassed by Midwest Furfest in Chicago.
I remember being terrorized by Snow White in the theater. Grandma treated the whole family!
@blaineg My earliest cinema memory is Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. The traumatic scene for me was when the evil queen turned into a dragon.
@blaineg @macromeh SPOILERS!!!
I’m not sure why, but for some reason the original Pete’s Dragon sticks in my mind as a favorite movie when I was a child.
Mary Poppins for me too. I also thought Fantasia was magical when I first saw it, although I hated the dancing hippos. The Night on Bald Mountain scene genuinely scared me!
The Red Balloon was sweet, a bit sad…