However, photographed in black and white, Enrico's film depends enormously on sound editing for its effectiveness” (46). For example, one of the short film's most effective scenes in the application of sound is when the audience hears a clock ticking in the background right before Ambrose Bierce is hanged. The general stops and removes Bierce's pocket watch, and the ticking of the clock stops, which escapes the belief that the moment of Bierce's death has come. Furthermore, as stated before, the tone of the sequence changes and when Bierce emerges from the water, images representing the new life appear simultaneously while the song plays in the background. The text continually repeats the words "a living man" which escape the viewers. Bierce will get a second chance, but this is only part of the illusion Enrico is creating in the short film. Also, in the scene where Bierce washes himself on the embankment after surviving the descent from the falls, an explosive sound is heard. This is when Bierce realizes that he is still running from the army for his life. All of these scenes are examples of how the established amount of sound effects is affective in distinguishing between illusion and