For me that was Mickey and his pals, Super 8 400'. It has 5 cut downs of old Disney shorts. I bought it from a photography store that used to rent them out. I guess it was around 1989-1990. I still have it :-)

Walton's Castle of Death 200ft B/W Silent from a London branch of Boots in the photographic department...in 1976? It cost a fiver. I didn't even have a projector!

Fun in Acapulco 400ft, it was the film that got me into the hobby, I still have it,bought a few projectors and then finally got a sound machine to hear it, i think it cost me £3 so money well spent for the enjoyment it's given,Mark

the very first film in our family was the 50ft b/w subtitled silent copy of The defiant Virginian.
my own first ever film was (i think) the 400ft Columbia cut down of Close Encounters. i was well disappointed with this reel in every way.

I used my parent's silent projector. Took me a while too before I got to hear the sound of the film :-)

Outside of Kenner toy projectors, my first “actual” film was the 50’ silent Ken Films SEEIN’ RED, almost 50 years ago.

My first film was a very short loop for a toy projector in 1967, it was 'The Trooping of the Colour', which I still have. I didn't get into the hobby properly until July 1973 when I bought a cine camera, then the next month we went on holiday, and my parents bought me two Walton silent films, 'Bar 20' with Hopalong Cassidy, and L&H in 'Perfect Day'. Once I got a sound projector I passed on my silent digests, but kept the L&H film.

I think mine was Swiss Family Robinson, Island of Mystery in B&W but with sound, but I do think I bought two or three with the projector, but can’t remember the titles, but might have been 50’ silent Easy Street and Pink Tail Fly Sound

Vidar, i would love to find a good 200ft reel of Island of mystery. Best part of the film.

Mine has splotches like many Disney’s lately

For me, it was the Universal 8 boxings of Frankenstein and The House of Frankenstein. They were Super-8, 200' silent editions

timberland terror it was £15.00 and was only on £16.00 wages at the time I also still have the film and my first projector was a bell and howell model 621

It was a incomplete !6mm B&W promo trailer for Alfred Hitchcock's THE BIRDS out of The Big Reel magazine back in about 1995. I didn't start buying packaged 8mm films until about 10 years later. My involvement with super 8 goes back to 1982 when I was making my own films and projecting them. Not very good ones either!

My first film was Waltons Please Sir from a London branch of Dixons it cost £30 the second was Superman from Portland Films in Shaftsbury Ave that cost £21

My first? I think it was Charlie Chaplin in "Easy Street", around 1991. I found it in an antiques shop. I had a projector for a very short time (bought at a tag sale). I knew nothing about projectors and film at the time. It was a long-gone format in the U.S. and there was no Internet at the time to get information. Looking back on it, I didn't form the necessary loops when threading the machine (that's why the film jittered, I think). I gave up on it after the lamp blew out. Then three years ago, I found another projector at a thrift store...
The rest is history! :-)

I remember well my first reel. I believe it was in 1961 I bought a 50ft, silent B/W "How to play Golf", starring Goofy. It´s still in my collection in its original, but a bit tatty box.

My very first film was a 50ft standard 8 with water skiing and a hand held viewer from Portland Films.

I think my first reel film on super 8 was Hollywood and the Stars the monster one.

My first film was Buster Keaton in THE BLACKSMITH (400ft Super 8 silent) and which was £29.99 in about 1986 or 7. It was in the Perry's catalogue which I still have but alas the film is long gone. I've been keeping my eyes open for a replacement.

Knowing what I know now, I wish I had gone for ONE WEEK which I think is far funnier.

Back then when I was 12, I only had a silent Eumig projector and can remember looking longingly at the sound films in the Perry's catalogue that I had to pass by as I wouldn't have been able to hear them on my silent-only set up. It's been quite good fun over the last couple of years picking up those Perry's titles and enjoying them... only about 30 years after I first saw them in the catalogue!

A nice story! I really do hope you find it! I grew up with a silent Eumig too. My parents still have it, and I used it to show family films just a few months ago. I have a real soft spot for Eumig, although my main projectors are Elmo now.

I have only one Buster Keaton which is with audio. I think his earlier ones are better.

My first bought film was King Kong 200' silent, bought from Portland Films in London, it cost me £6.00, I just couldn't understand why it wouldn't run through my Casdon projector, then I found out the Casdon was Standard 8 and Kong was Super 8 and that my friends is where it all began in the late 70's.

Oh, I feel sorry for young you! Must have been such a disappointment.

Eivind, it was my friend as King Kong had always been one of my favourite films (and still is), I used to just manually thread the film through the Casdon just so I could see the image, the film started back in New York when Kong is chained up, fantastic 200' extract. The worst was to come, my first super 8 projector was a Cinerex

I don't know the Cinerex, but I image it was not great from the sound of your post. I presume it was nice to the films...

I cant remember what my first 8mm film was I think it was a trailer reel with"Exodus" on plus one other.
My first 16mm film was "Chinatown" which I still have even though the colour is begining to turn,no smell thank goodness,in my opinion a great film.Since that purchase a while ago I have collected and sold two collections always keeping "Chinatown".Somehow just cant shake of this film collecting bug

Seems that there are more than me keeping their firsts :-) Mickey and his Pals are very common, but I would never sell it.