Mockingbird (I. L'oiseau Moqueur 1861)

Duration: 37

Year Published: 1972

Creator: Robert ENRICO

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Description: Relates the American Civil War story by Ambrose Bierce about a Union soldier who shoots at something while on guard duty and returns the next day to find out whether or not he has killed someone. Reveals, through a dream, that the soldier has a twin brother whom he has not seen since their mother's death and that the two of them had a pet mockingbird. Shows the soldier spotting a mockingbird and ends with him finding his brother, a Confederate soldier, dead.