The black-and-white film opens with a wonderfully-fashioned credit sequence - beginning with an overhead point-of-view shot of a young girl opening and looking into a old cigar box of collected remembrances, valued treasures and trinkets, including:

crayons (new and used)
a mechanical pencil
two carved soap doll figurines - one male and one female
an old broken pocket watch
a skeleton key
a broken pocket knife
a spelling medal
a few marbles
jacks
an Indian head and Lincoln head penny
a chalk holder
and other minor objects

a blue jay, a robin, even a sparrow -- if you can... but not a mocking bird