The clearing of the Ghetto In the Hospital scene Steven Spielberg uses cinematic devices such as framing to achieve specific effects. In particular he uses medium shots and close ups to great effect as the audience can really sense and feel the emotion in the scene. He uses a medium shot to show Doctor Idek Schindel and his nurse administering lethal doses of poisonous (Thucizna) cocktails to helpless, and terminally ill Jewish patients. The lifeless corpses are then machine-gunned by the soldiers until they realise they are dead. Steven Spielberg then switches to a close up of the patients face so we, the viewers, can see the final feelings and emotions of the patient before he/she passes away. After that he switches back and forth between the patients’ smiles and the looks of despair on the doctor’s and nurses faces. This is emotionally stirring because the smiles on the patients’ faces represent their gratitude towards the doctor’s and nurses for killing them, which is rather peculiar and adds a sense of sadness to an already depressing scene. Steven Spielberg doesn’t use any sound/background music in this scene because he wants the audiences’ attention to be fully focused on what is happening in the scene. The most dramatic scene in the sequence is the final chapter of the liquidation of the ghetto. It occurs at night as the Nazi’s have sent out special squads of SS killers to hunt down the remaining Jews that are still hiding in the ghetto. They are less lenient on the Jews that have hidden and kill most if not all of them that they find. At first Steven Spielberg uses a medium shot which shows the environment that the soldiers are currently occupying. He then switches to a medium close-up so you can see the soldiers as they listen with their stethoscopes on ceilings and stealthily enter rooms with flashlights. At this point the camera then switches to the view of the Jew hiding in the piano. He/she comes out of the piano thinking that they re safe...