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Ancestry Daily News
6/14/2001 - Archive
Find Out Why Your Name is The Sweetest Sound
The Sweetest Sound, a film by Alan Berliner, will be shown on public television's
award-winning independent non-fiction film series P.O.V. (Point of View) on
26 June 2001, at 10:00 P.M. (Check your local listings for PBS stations and
times).
Everyone has a name. Names are the opening words to our life stories. With intimacy,
humor, and his own inimitable style, filmmaker Alan Berliner dives headfirst
into the American name pool in search of the treasures and traps hidden in names,
especially his own. In confronting the "same name syndrome" and his yearning
to be unique. The Sweetest Sound starts out as a search for identity, and
slowly transforms into a meditation of mortality, leaving a keen sense of the
power and mystery embedded in every name.
Genealogists and family historians will relate to this film, find themselves
nodding and saying, "Yes, that's happened to me." Alan brings his love of genealogy
to this film, which follows his award winning film, "Nobody's Business." Interviews
at Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty combine with on-the-street interviews
about how people feel about their names. Find out why your name is, in fact,
The Sweetest Sound.
To learn more about P.O.V. and to discuss the film on-line go to:
www.pbs.org/pov.
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