Boarded Window

Duration: 17

Year Published: 1973

Creator: Alan Beattie

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Dramatizes the Ambrose Bierce story about an old hunter who has died and is being buried near a rustic cabin, a cabin whose one window has been boarded over for many years. Relates how, many years before, the hunter's wife died of a high fever and shows how he lovingly prepared her body for burial. Concludes with a macabre event which leaves the viewer questioning the circumstances surrounding his wife's death.