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Lovely Genimate Pauleen Cass from Family History across the seas came up with this great meme. Wanna play along?  Here are the questions: What’s the earliest movie you can remember? My mother told me that the first movie I ever saw was A Hard Day's Night with the Beatles but the first I can remember is probably Fantasia. Where did you go to the movies (place or type of venue)? For the most part, when I remember movie going days I'm thinking of Canberra. There were a couple of places to go in the 70s - there was a pretty uninspiring cinema in the heart of town - the Civic - but it had all the big movies so I saw Chitty Chitty Bang Bang there and Sound of Music I think.  Our favourite cinema by far was the Center Cinema and I have blogged about it and other cinemas/drive-ins here. Did you buy movie programs? Um no?  Did they exist? Why was I not told?  Did you take in food and drink (and what did you like)? Yes.  I never tired of Fantales ...

A photo of the TV screen in Edinburgh circa 1963 Thomas MacEntee of Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories says: Whether it is the movie It’s A Wonderful Life or A Charlie Brown Christmas on the telly, what is your favorite television program or movie? What are your memories of first seeing it as a child and did your family have certain traditions related to the show or movie? Are there different versions (such as The Christmas Carol) and have you found modern favorites? Tell us about your favorite Christmas television program or movie and your memories of Christmases past. This is such a difficult question to answer because we weren't really into watching movies at Christmas time.  We would always joke about how television was the "worst" during Summer holidays.  It's not the ratings season so only really bad stuff was shown like "The Robe".  If there was anything that we watched on the telly it was probably the Edinburgh Military Tattoo bu...

Julie Goucher of Angler's Rest created this fantastic meme The Book of Me Written By You and you can find out all about it here. This is Prompt 55 of the meme. What is your feel good movie? Can you remember the first time you went to the cinema? What did you see? Can you remember the price? Who did you go with? Recall those magical movie moments? What is your favourite movie or favourite genre? What is your feel good movie? Oh boy.  That's a tough one.  I looked at the lists on IMDB and honestly....can you believe that someone put Trainspotting in the list????  I mean it's a great movie but "feel-good" ??? This is difficult because I tend to like melancholic movies best.  Weird, I know.  But for me the best feel good movies (because I can't restrict myself to one) are (in alphabetical order): The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert Amelie Babe Before Sunrise Cinema Paradiso The Full Monty Muriel...