Just saw a reference to Michael Keaton as "the first Batman on the big screen," and ahem.
The Thalia theater on 95th and Broadway was a revival house when I was a kid—double features every day, one price for both movies, with the lineup changing five days a week.
The great thing about a double feature revival house is all the opportunities it gives the programmer for juxtaposition—one day I went and saw a 1950s sci-fi B movie on the same bill as a 1970s Italian sex-and-gore Frankenstein flick, just because they were both in 3D.
Anyway. I know Adam West was the first big-screen Batman because I saw him on the big screen as Batman in a double feature with the Monkees' "Head" when I was about 16 and very deeply stoned.
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