Expert: Brad Lang - 2/13/2006

Question
I don't know if this is your area. If it isn't I understand.

In Chicago, in 1965, I took an Adult Education film class. Each week we saw a different short film. One was Ambrose Bierce’s Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. Another short, fiction movie totally intrigued me. Unfortunately, I never saw mention of it again. I wish you could help me find information about it with the hopes of obtaining a DVD of it.

I believe the title was The House, or something similar. I have tried to search the internet and have not uncovered the movie. I believe it was set in the time shortly after the civil war. It was unique because all of the scenes were scrambled and failed to make sense. The scenes were totally not chronological. Viewing the film, the viewer was completely mixed up. Finally, the last scene was the missing piece of the puzzle and this scene allowed the viewer to put the whole movie together. As the curtain closed, the whole movie made sense. It was a story of love, marriage and betrayal.


Answer
Dennis:

This is an educated guess, but I believe the film you saw was "Het Huis," a 30-minute short by Louis van Gasteren (1961). Unfortunately, all the references I can find to it online are in Dutch (or worse)! Here's the Internet Movie Database page on it. As you can see, the English title is "The House."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185977/

If you know anybody who speaks Dutch, search the title and filmmaker (in quotes) on Google, and you'll get plenty of references.

Good luck (and if you like my answer, please visit my site below and buy a movie or click on some ads!). If that's not it, let me know. There was a TV movie made in 1965 called "The House," a thriller, but that's all I know about it.

Brad Lang
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