The Red Shoes was one of the first movies I ever watched as a child. Which is now confusing to me, as it was released in 1948., and I would have been but seven years old. It is true that that our little local theater was not in the first run circuit. Most films, however, made it to the movie house within a couple of years. I do not remember my parents as being movie goers. Why would I have gone alone to see it? A mystery.
It's a great movie, and I'm surprised that it has not received more awards.
Richard remembers having the folk tale by Hans Christian Anderson read to him by his father.

Other early films I remember was the 1953 House of Wax a very eary horror 3-D film (perhaps the first). But I was actually a Flash Gorden fan; you would have found me every Saturday afternoon sitting near the front of the movie house.