Todd Ayoung : I saw The Sound of Music when I was about seven years old, in Port-of-Spain (Trinidad) where there was only one big movie-theatre at that time. Films weren't that well distributed, so if a film came around they would keep it as long as possible. I saw it one week and then the next week again...about 7 times. Being brought up in an Asian family, my parents were very protective ; if we weren't going to school we (me and my sisters) would be locked up in our little house. It was summer I believe and there was not a whole lot to do, so my uncle would sometimes take us to the movies... Now, here there is a strange thing-it's hard to figure out in what way this is due to being part of a colonial situation, or more in terms of this being part of the child's imagination-but I always thought that cinema was something real and that there were people behind the screen. This is how I came to explain it : one of the movies that showed there was The Planet of the Apes and I remember vividly seeing a cage with a bunch of apes driving around Port-of-Spain, because that was the way they advertised it. So I thought : of course, those apes just go behind the screen playing apes and this now ends up on a flat surface, with other kinds of projections going on, but they were real people.