Disney movies of your chidhood?

[universALLove]

No, I wouldn't dare let my kids listen to Snow White scream for an hour and a half.

What's it gonna be then?

[PeterPanfan]

Well I don't know the complete order, but I'm positive I'm going to show them Peter Pan first, and The Fox and the Hound second.

[Kendris]

Being that I was born in 1984, the Disney movies released during my childhood are basically my favs. TLM, TLK, BatB, Aladdin, etc. Also I remember seeing TLK in the theatres and the movie and posters when it was released on VHS (which i currently still have).

[Wonderlicious]

Being born in 1988, when the video era was in full swing, I think I saw all the obvious classics (as in all the animated classics except for the package films, plus the likes of Mary Poppins etc) before I was ten. I'm probably gonna miss a few, but the ones which meant the most as a child were probably Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio, Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Sleeping Beauty, Fantasia, Toy Story, Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast. I also quite liked Peter Pan, The Rescuers, Aladdin and The Little Mermaid.

Today, my favourites (animated classics, anyway) are probably Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Pinocchio, 101 Dalmatians, Lady and the Tramp, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Fantasia and The Three Caballeros.

[LindaMYoung]

There were no tapes in my childhood--it was either the theatre or the Sunday night World of Color. I remember when Mary Poppins premiered at the big old Majestic Theatre in downtown Providence; a line down both sides of the building and meeting in the back. Others that I loved that I saw first in the theatre were 101 Dalmatians and Three Lives of Thomasina.

[Kram Nebuer]

Since I am the resident 'cantankerous old fart' here at the forums I can tell you that I have seen each and every Disney theatrical film in the theater. I was born on the snack bar floor of my parents movie theater so I was introduced to movies at a very young age.

We premiered "Song of the South" at our theater when I was almost 7 years old. I remember "So Dear To My Heart", and all the Disney animated films along with a bunch of original Disney cartoons with Mickey, Donald and Goofy.

Some of my favorite Disney films include, "Fantasia", "Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs", "Cinderella", "Lady and the Tramp", and "Sleeping Beauty". Later releases that have become favorites to watch include "The Monkey's Uncle", "Old Yeller", "Savage Sam" (sequel to 'Old Yeller), "The Rocketeer", "The Fox and the Hound", and, most recently "Enchanted".

When I worked at Disneyland as a projectionist in the Mickey Mouse Club Theater in Fantasyland, I remember showing all sorts of "special" editions of Disney shorts and things.

Memories of Disney linger to this day. As I remember Disneyland when it was just a big dug-out hole in the ground all the way to its opening festivities, and getting excited about going to the Park the very first time.

Disney movies have played a very instrumental part in my life, and my grandkids are learning from 'grandpa' all he can show them about Disney.

Aw, thanks for the story, dvdjunkie. I was hoping you would post since you are the UD member who has probably seen more summers than the majority of us. It must be such an experience to have grown up with Disney and now discuss and share your enthusiasm with fellow fans all over the globe! I can't wait for the days when I can be all..."Yeah I remember seeing that old chestnut "Aladdin" back in 1992 in the theater at our local mall. People didn't shop on computers back then!"

Speaking of which, my childhood Disney movies were much the same as the other babies of the 80's around here. Our first Disney videos were Cinderella and the Sing-Along Songs tapes. As we got older, we got more of the classics and my mother taped a lot of them from video store rentals. We didn't go to the theaters a lot as a kid and when we did, it was really a special treat. The only Disney films I've seen in theaters as a kid/teen were Aladdin, The Lion King, Toy Story (with my boy scout troop) and Mulan. I think the only live action one was when we saw The Kid with my cousins. Once I got older, we went to the theater more often on our own with friends.

Like Amy had said, there were a lot of classics that I didn't get to see until my teen years and most recently. I didn't see the Fox and the Hound until the recent 25th Anniversary DVD came out and my roommate got it for me. Also, I didn't see Rescuers Down Under in full until I sat myself down and watched Escapay's copy. There were a lot of others I didn't see till later.

I think my favorite childhood Disney tapes were Peter Pan and The Great Mouse Detective.

[blackcauldron85]

the Sing-Along Songs tapes.

Don't even get me started on the Disney Sing Along Songs tapes. They were my favorite thing ever. I had all but 1, I think, and I would constantly watch them. I LOVED them. My mom gave them away, and I'm still sad.

Bobby & I were hanging out at Animal Kingdom Lodge a week or 2 ago, and I wanted to watch the cartoons in the lobby, and then a Sing Along Songs tape came on (the Heigh Ho volume), and I sang along. There were 2 British girls next to me, and they even started to sing along. Good times.

(So, I just wrote in another thread that I don't really sing in public, but I guess I did that time...)

[pap64]

I was born in 1982 (almost close to becoming an old fart ). As far as I remember my family had a VHS player and rented all sorts of movies, mainly the Disney films for me and my sister. I was too young to appreciate the films, but I definitely enjoyed watching them. I remember Pinocchio, Dumbo and Sleeping Beauty being favorites.

It wasn't till the second age of Disney animation that I started appreciating them for what they were: animated classics.

One day, my parents bought "The Little Mermaid" for the hell of it. We all watched it that it and enjoyed it. Of course, they all made fun of me for crying at the end...IT WAS A HAPPY ENDING!!!

The Little Mermaid became heavily played at my house. A friend of mine used to watch the movie like crazy.

Then came "Beauty and the Beast", which me and my sister watched for the first time at a mall during the Holiday rush. I too cried at the end of it...but I was too big of a boy to let tears flow.

The funny thing is that Beauty and the Beast easily became my most watched film. You see, when I was a kid mom would ALWAYS visit Grandma, sometimes for the whole day. During vacation and/or weekends, I was dragged along and would be bored out of my mind. They didn't have cable, so they only had one working channel. And they always showed either the news or TV soap operas. I hated them, so I would be bored doing nothing.

Then one day, my cousin borrowed a VHS copy of Beauty and the Beast, and all I did was watch it till I memorized every single line of the movie.

Aladdin followed, although that movie was a one time rental.

I also saw "Snow White" for the first time in its 1994 re-release. It was simply magical. As a kid, I was well aware that I was watching something I knew it existed, but wasn't available till now.

Then the Lion King hit the big screen. It was the first Disney film I had ever seen in theaters, and it was all kinds of awesome. It became the film for every kid to watch and love. I loved the movie so much that I begged my parents to get it on VHS. I got my wish granted and the rest is history.

Afterwards, we stopped owning VHS movies and we stuck to renting them, which was fine by me.

So to sum it up, the fab four pretty much ruled my childhood.

[Prince Edward]

Being born in 1985, The Little Mermaid was the first movie (at least the first movie that I can remember) I watched at the theaters, and since then I have loved Disney. I did see The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Mulan, Atlantis - The Lost Empire, Treasure Planet and Home on the Range in theaters. I have always liked the movies that are based on fairytales, legends etc (Sleeping Beauty, Aladdin, Hercules...) better than the movies that features animals (The Lion King, The Rescuers, 101 Dalmatians...)

The movies I loved the most in my childhood were Sleeping Beauty and all the Alan Menken-movies (Mermaid, Beauty, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Hunchback & Hercules), and those movies are still my favorite Disney-classics.

As a young teenager my love for Disney became a little less strong, and I did not see movies like Tarzan, The Emperor's New Groove and Lilo & Stitch in the theaters. It was like I "forgot about" Disney in a way. But ever since 2001/2002, when I started collecting the Disney-films on DVD, and when I discovered who Alan Menken was and I started to buy the soundtracks on CD, I have been obsessed with Disney-films and have them all on DVD. And this year I have started to collect them on Blu-ray as well.

Movies that I own on VHS:
Sleeping Beauty
Robin Hood
The Little Mermaid
Beauty and the Beast
Aladdin
The Lion King
Pocahontas
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hercules
Mulan
I did not own all the other classics; Snow White, Fantasia, Pinocchio, Bambi, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, The Jungle Book, etc, but used to rent them often.

Movies that I own on DVD:
All the classic animated features, from Snow White to Meet the Robinsons. I don't love all of them, but they are all decent/OK movies. I also own all the Disney-Pixar movies and live-action movies like Mary Poppins, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Chronicles of Narnia and Enchanted.

Also, I have always loved the Donald Duck-comics (Carl Barks, Don Rosa etc), but I believe that the comics plays a more important role here in Europe (especially in Scandiniavian countries like Norway) as opposed to for example the USA.

[Disney Duster]

I'm very sure my first Disney film was Cinderella. I reached for a hanging ring high on a swing set, fell and broke my arm, when I was 3. My parents rented the movie to make me feel better. Apparently I loved it, and I know I loved it so much I was obsessed with it since then. Later I loved Sleeping Beauty and The Little Mermaid, watched at my aunt's house. My cousin and I had "ink and blue" fights. I picked blue. And I saw Aladdin in the theater with my aunts and cousins, and I saw a Snow White re-release. I asked my mom to help me draw the part where the Queen's hair grows white and wild in a commercial for the movie coming to theaters.

Some of my favorite Disney films include, "Fantasia", "Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs", "Cinderella", "Lady and the Tramp", and "Sleeping Beauty".

So...did you see their premieres?! In which case...do you remember how thye looked, enough to have a fair idea of how close the current DVDs are to how they looked in their premieres?

And...were you born in your parents theater...for real? Literally?

[David S.]

I was born in 1982 (almost close to becoming an old fart ).

Hardly! I'm about 10 years older and don't even feel remotely "old". Remember, "40 is the new 30" and "30 is the new 20"!

I once met a guy in his 70's who still travels around the country visiting theme parks and riding rollercoasters! It was on Apollo's Chariot at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, he was riding over and over with his son. We were all in the back row (it seats 4-across) and didn't have to get off because it was first thing in the morning and no one was in line. Good times!

Age is just a number. I believe you are only as old as you think you are. To me, it's about attitude and state of mind. I feel younger now than I did 15 years ago, as I am more in touch with my inner child now, probably at least in part because I surround myself with Disney culture and "fun" things.

Anyway, like other members in this thread, when I was little there were no instant DACs on VHS tapes. The only way to see the classics was theatrical reissues.

Since my parents took me to WDW for the first time when I was about 5, my first exposure to most of the Disney characters and classic songs was actually through the parks and not the films! Specifically, I knew Snow White, Alice, and Cindy and their songs from Mickey Mouse Revue, Peter Pan from his awesome Peter Pan's Flight ride, etc.

I can't remember which Walt-era theatrical DAC reissue I saw first, but I knew as I was growing up I eventually saw almost all of them in theatres. The first "new" DAC I saw in theatres was Many Adventures Of Winnie the Pooh, followed that same year by The Rescuers. I've seen every new DAC since then in theatres!

I've also seen a lot of 70's live action in theatres, such as Pete's Dragon, as well as older films on their reissues. I actually saw Song Of The South theatrically on TWO reissues. And you know what, there were no riots in the streets and the world did not stop turning!

[Marky_198]

I also saw "Snow White" for the first time in its 1994 re-release. It was simply magical. As a kid, I was well aware that I was watching something I knew it existed, but wasn't available till now.

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I'm from 1982 too!

That's really how it was.
You knew the movies existed but there was just no possibility to watch them. Sometimes you would see stills in the Donald Duck for example.
Or little clips here and there on tv. I was collecting everything from snowwhite, cinderella and sleeping beauty. If I could only see the real movie someday, that would be unbelievable.
When I was 7 or 8 I rented "Sleeping Beauty" in the video store.
It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.
It was the only Disney classic available and there was nothing commercial about it yet. The letters on the back looked like they were typed with an old typ-machine. I used to go to the videostore on my bike 3 times a week, just to watch and hold the cover of this magical thing.
If it wasn't there I got very worried that someone else rented it and might have damaged it.

It wasn't till 1994 till snowwhite came out for the first time.
But my aunt worked at a cinema and gave me this vhs tape of the movie in 1990. It was an illegal version when I look back now. It never came out till 94.

I dind't mind. When I was 10 or so, my dad copied sleeping beauty to another vhs to keep it. I kept it under my pillow for years
There was no other way to get this movies, so I didn't care.

Then Cinderella came out and the Little mermaid came out in the cinema's, and was released on vhs later. I got the Little Mermaid VHS for Christmas. From then on the classics became commercially available.

[stewie15]

Wow I thought i was lucky to have seen toy story in theaters. Some of you guys are really lucky to have seen all these great classics in theaters! I would sell my soul to see some of thoes films in theaters!! Song of the South wow!!!!!

[Black pearl]

My old favourites were:
The hunch back of notredame.
Homeward Bound.
One Hundered and One Dalmatians, Me And my big brother used to watch this together a lot, and it was often the choice for family movie night.
Beauty and the Beast enchanted Chrishmas.
And My most favourite disney film used to be Muppet treasure island, I used to watch it all the time, oh sweet memories .

[katemonster]

I definitely remember watching the Little Mermaid on repeat for days. My mom was in shock how I could be entertained by the same movie sooo many times

[gadgetmobile]

I was born in 1967, so I'm in the group that had to rely upon movie theatres and "The Wonderful World of Disney" to see Disney movies when I was a child. The first Disney movies I remember seeing in the theatres are "The Aristocats" and "Sleeping Beauty". I loved "Sleeping Beauty", and she remains my favorite Disney princess. Maleficent is my favorite Disney Villan.

Growing up, I saw "The Rescuers", "Herbie Rides Again", "Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo", "The World's Greatest Athlete", "Superdad", "The Strongest Man in the World", "The Apple Dumpling Gang" and "Pete's Dragon" in the theatre. I had a huge crush on Kurt Russell after seeing him in the Disney films. My elementary school chorus sang "Candle on the Water" from "Pete's Dragon" for our spring concert.

"The Wonderful World of Disney" was a fixture at my house on Sunday evenings. That television show introduced me to classics such as "Old Yeller" (The first movie that ever made me cry), "Mary Poppins", "The Parent Trap" (Haley Mills version), and classic shorts with Donald, Mickey, and Goofy.

When I was in high school and college, I "outgrew" Disney and did not see Disney films in the theatre anymore. That all changed when my kids came along. With my children, I returned to the theatre and brought the Disney magic into my home with VHS tapes, DVDs, and now Blu-Ray. With their help, I discovered the magic of "The Lion King", "Aladdin", "Mulan", "Toy Story 2", and "Monsters, Inc."

I have enjoyed all of the Disney movies that I have seen, and I am glad that I can share them with my children now.

[LindaMYoung]

I was born in 1982 (almost close to becoming an old fart ).

1982? Old fart? Hon, you're just a puppy!

[pap64]

Haha!

Thanks a lot for the nice comments regarding me not becoming an old fart.

I was mainly kidding, but I do believe that some teenagers would look at me and my age and say "man you're old!", for the sole fact that I've lived longer than them .

Funny enough, I look pretty young when compared to my best friend. He is one year older than me, but looks like he's in his mid thirties. XD

And one time, I went to have my birthday dinner at a sushi restaurant and the waitress asked me if I was turning 17 or 18. XD::

And Marky, as I kid I watched the Snow White's 50 anniversary special and that's when I first learned about the movie. I remember taping the special and watching it all the time because it was the closest thing to actually watching the movie.

I then kept seeing clips in the sing-a-long videos, like "Heigh-Ho" and "Whistle while you work", and wondering where the movies.

Finally, there was the classic scene in "Gremlins" in which the gremlins watch the movie.

I knew the movie existed, but didn't see it till 1994, the year it was FINALLY released on video.