When Did You First See 'Old Yeller'?

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Saw it with my mother at least 12 years ago, when i was 11 or something. I tought it was a silly movie in the same genre as "the cat from outer space" (wich i love, by the way), but i got surprised. I clearly remember the day, my grandfather had recorded it from cable tv on a whs tape, so it had silly comerical breaks wich we are not use to in Denmark, since it is only legal to show comericals between the programs.

Some years later the movie had a "come back" in my life. Me and one of my (then) best friends liked to watch old stuff, and usually things no one else would understand. Damn We espeacially fall in love with the theme song. I remember we was fooling around and drank beers at the same time, however, we clearly both had nostalgic feelings.

Last year my girlfriend bought me the Dvd in a special edition -:o>

That's so awesome, thanks for sharing that! I would've LOVED going to the movies back then! Sounds so much better than some movie theaters nowadays :)

I first saw this movie in 1958, when I was about seven years old, at the State Theater in Havre de Grace, Maryland, on a Saturday afternoon. It seemed that just about every kid in town was there, waiting in a long line to get in. In those days, movies played first in large cities like New York or Chicago, then made their way to secondary large cities, like Detroit or Baltimore, and eventually wended their way to the little towns like mine. It took more than a year for a movie to make the trek. The State Theater was a smaller and much less elaborate version of the movie palace dmorse describes. There has never been a sadder movie than "Old Yeller" for a kid to see, with the possible exception of "The Yearling", a much better movie with the same themes. Everybody cried. This movie, or rather the emotional impact of it, is unforgettable.

Yes, very much! Wish I could have seen movies back then. I probably saw this movie around 1964...Disney used to re-release their films to theatres every seven years back then, so it would have been around that era. I cried at the end but my mom explained to me about rabies and I understood what Travis had to do. I would have been about eight or nine, and would have seen it at the Majestic Theater in Providence, RI, which was originally a vaudeville house. It still had a stage, and a balcony, and one of those huge ladies' rooms downstairs, and when the movie started, there was a red velvet curtain that opened up. One of the last movies that showed at the Majestic was AIRPORT. Luckily the building was saved and it became the Trinity Square Repertory Theatre.

Don't pat yourself on the back too soon slim!
I saw it new at the Temple Theater in Temple City Ca. We used to pay 50 cents for a double feature that included the above mentioned raffle that usually included a bike and other items.
The Temple became a multiplex in the 80's/90's and was torn down in the last few years.

My grandparents always recorded the movie on Wonderful World of Disney every week so they could watch with us grandkids. SO I saw Old Yeller with them when I was 10 or so. And have seen it 1000 times since. I loved the character of Travis, thought he was so handsome and such a man for being a boy still. Loved so much I named my son Travis from that character!