Talk:Game in the Sand (Unreleased 1964 Short Film by Werner Herzog)/@comment-26170955-20150515193526

it seems to me that Werner was just going to film kids playing with a chicken, he didnt know the chicken would die when being buried to the neck due to the pressure on the chest (people have died from this thinking it would be fun to bury eachother up to their chests at beaches, this is a common misconcention due to seeing this joke in faked media so often) so it probably died by accident, the kids freaked out from the chicken dying. and Werner being the dumb weirdo that he is just kept rolling and filming their reactions to accidently killing said chicken. his refusal to release it is probably because he is a bit guilty for filming children ligitimatly upset.

or thats what seems like the most plausible answer to me anyways