Taking Off

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http://v5Let's Get a Little Sentimental from Taking Off

Mr. Forman told the audience about one of his earliest memories of the cinema. When he was a little boy living in Czechoslovakia, his parents took him to the city on a Saturday evening to see a film. It was a documentary about The Bartered Bride, an opera by Bedřich Smetana. But the film was silent. The way the singers mouths opened wide reminded him of fish. The opera was so familiar to the audience that they gradually began to sing the songs until the room was filled with their voices and emotion.

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Smetana's The Bartered Bride

[Fresh Air interview from Feb. 15, 2008]