Plot SynopsisThe Pre-Title Screen Prologue:The film opened with an exterior view of the New York Public Library (on Fifth Avenue in NYC in Manhattan).Marketing slogans cried: "The Happiest Sound in All the World." Ernest Lehman""s screenplay was based on the book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.That book was in turn based on Baroness Maria von Trapp""s 1949 autobiography (The von Trapp Family Singers) about he exploits of the family of singers and their escape from the Nazis in Austria in 1938.Uhura studied the recording, rewound it, and realized that theFranklin""sformer, pre-Federation human captain was a bald-headed, black-skinned human named Balthazar Edison - it dawned on her: "Edison is Krall" himself.Newman brought up the fact that Loomis had been accused of "profiteering off the misery of others." Loomis took "great issue" with hat statement, and afterwards expressed how he felt humiliated by the interviewer""s questions.