...about. "One of my first definite memories goes back to the age of six," he said in the early thirties. "I stood outside a penny arcade listening to an automatic...tune without picturing myself outside that arcade on i2cth Street, standing there barefoot and in overalls, drinking it all in avidly." Then there was the...

...outside a penny arcade listening to an automatic piano leaping through Rubinstein's Melody in F. ... To this very day I can't hear the tune without picturing...there barefoot and in overalls, drinking it all in avidly."8 This memory is the basis for the opening sequence of the film, although the young man the...

...six, when "I stood outside a penny arcade listening to Rubinstein's 'Melody in F' on a player piano. The peculiar jumps in the music held me rooted. To this very day I can't hear that tune without picturing myself outside that arcade, barefoot and in overalls, drinking it all in...