Just after midnight Saturday at the Hoff Theater, on the same screen that has shown kid-friendly flicks such as Finding Nemo and The Incredibles, Linda Lovelace had anal, oral and vaginal sex with more than a half-dozen men, much to the delight, curiosity and repugnance of about 530 students.

Sex hit the silver screen this weekend and students clamored to see it. The line for Deep Throat, the 1972 revolutionary pornographic film that will be shown again tonight as part of an educational program on the adult film industry, began to form at 11 p.m. Friday, more than an hour before the show began.

General Manager Mollie Wander said she turned away 50 to 100 students from the 550-seat theater to prevent overcrowding. When they had admitted roughly 530 people, Wander said the audience was more than seven times the size of a typical weekend crowd and the biggest the Hoff has had for a nonfree movie since the 1990s. It cost $3 per ticket for students.

“I was surprised, I didn’t really think it would be such an explicit, straight-up porn,” sophomore finance major Max Chernets said. “I thought in the ‘70s they would be more tame, that there would be some kind of progression from then to now but no.”

Wander, a senior criminology and criminal justice major, said she decided to show the film because of the educational purposes of discussing a movie that changed the way people talk about sex. Deep Throat was the first pornographic film shown in mainstream movie theaters and was banned in 23 states upon its 1972 release.

The film will be shown again today after a panel discussion on pornography’s effects and a documentary on the film. Attendees will be required to attend the panel discussion before watching Deep Throat.

One university police officer was brought in by Wander to monitor Friday night’s crowd. Several others came voluntarily as the line to enter the theater stretched through the seating area behind the food court and down the hallway behind the Grand Ballroom.

After showing driver’s licenses and student IDs to gain admittance to the X-rated film, college students about to see an adult film at the campus movie theater hooted and hollered.

“Yeah, porno!” bellowed one male audience member.

The mood of the crowd, which was about 60 percent male, evolved during the movie. As its curiosity was satisfied, the unruly crowd sobered and even sulked as Lovelace performed on penises for 61 minutes.

Thoughts on Deep Throat as hilarious and horrifying varied for each audience member.

“It was kind of like listening to Disney music while looking at people f—ing,” said Ira Gewanter, a junior English and theatre major who was amused but not impressed.

“I kind of felt like I was going to puke,” said Lauren Johnson, a freshman marketing major at the University of Delaware.

“It seems more like it’s funny than anything else,” Wander said.