I saw this movie years ago in grade school, so the details might be a touch hazy.

It was a short film that featured almost no dialog. It was an old man who wandered around his farmhouse alone, looking at and lovingly touching all his stuff, a photo of his wife, sad music is playing etc. Then eventually he leaves and gets in a truck and drives off. It then cuts back to the farmhouse where all his worldly possessions are being auctioned off (presumably by the bank, I guess). They milk the melodrama when they sell the photo of his wife for $0.50 and keep cutting back to the old man in the truck.

Then he drives down this lonely stretch of road, and the camera pans over to a sign that reads "Dead End". The end as the truck disappears behind a hill.

I always thought that it was a really disturbing and weird thing to show small kids, but I saw it a few times between in the ages of 6 and 10, always at school. I seem to recall it being about a half hour long. Also, I'm from Canada, so it might be some obscure Canadian National Film Board oddity, this could be a total longshot.

Any idea on the title? If I had to guess I would say it was made in the 70's but I don't know that for sure.