Not sure this thread has been done before. My earliest movie memory was as a very young boy who with some equally mischievous other boys used to sneak into our home town picture theatre thru a loose board when the lites went out. We managed to get away with it for a while until the manager twigged and then we got hell to pay from Mum and Dad. After that if I wanted to see a flick I had to work for the ticket price.I had learned my lesson. Several years later I found myself fatherless and was sent to a boarding school. It was run by the Masons and was both strict and spartan. Our one touch with civilization was the twice a month movie. This was not a priviledge for every boy as if you had gained too many demerit points the previous week for any little misdemeanors you missed the picture. I always was on my best behaviour leading up to picture nite so I could take my place on the hard wooden benches in the picture hall. My older brother was also at the school but in the upper grade. Picture nite and the monthy parental visits where the only times we ever saw each other. As I was unable to purchase lollies(candy) with my meager allowance I had to rely on my big brother. As he was a prefect he would slide a bag of my fave lollies from the back of the hall under the many rows of seats. Heaven help anyone who tried snitching my goodies as my brother would put him on detention. These are my earliest recollections of the moving picture. and the subsequent many joys it has given me over the intervening decades. Anyone else have their own movie story to tell?
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