The phrase "a first viewing of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the initial experience of watching a film, show, or any visual media for the first time.
Example: "I was excited for a first viewing of the highly anticipated movie that everyone has been talking about."
Alternatives: "the initial screening of" or "the premiere of".
A first viewing of "Schumann," as it is sometimes called, can be genuinely startling.
Such is the familiarity with Schiele's paintings and drawings these days that it requires something of a thought experiment to imagine the visceral shock that a first viewing of them would have generated.
In this sense the message Shawky imparts is that the best way for a first viewing of his work is to be as children are in our open reception and proclivity for learning the relative truth at hand.
Like a first sight of Eden's biomes, a first view of the overpoweringly lush Jungle is a pleasurable shock.
We implement the activation-relaxation technique to obtain a first view of grain boundary energy landscapes for the Σ5 (1 3 0), Σ5 (2 1 0) and Σ3 (1 1 1) grain boundaries in copper.
Where the model reproduces best the IG variability, it can be used to fill in the gaps between recording stations, providing a first view of the global IG wave field.
The Kickoff Take the Banff Gondola to the top of Sulphur Mountain for a first view of the Canadian Rockies — at an extra cost of roughly $120, for four.
One feels in sound hands from a first view of the designer Ultz's rain-swept take on rural Ireland, a living area in apparently advanced decay where virtually everything has seen better days, including its inhabitants.
The X-ray radiography and electron emission radiography images provide a first view of the original pattern.
The next year saw the publication of A History of English Literature co-authored by Robert Morss Lovett; in 1905 Lovett and Moody published A First View of English Literature.
A first view of the image is readily generated using default parameters, with additional edition steps required to obtain a good representation (slide 6).
