Alyssa Vandiver
ENG Comp 101-135
Mr. Neuburger
25 March 2013
Essay
“A Film Unfinished”
“A Film Unfinished” is a moving documentary about the Nazis
staging the Jewish people in different
scenes in the Ghetto to be used for propaganda. The films were taken during
WWII in the Warsaw Ghetto. The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest Ghetto built by
the Nazis. There were over 400,000 Jews in a 1.3 square mile radius. For a long
time the films were just thought as documentation and no one knew that
the films were staged. It wasn’t until recently that a film that was unfinished
had showed the Nazi soldiers filming and
doing re-takes was discovered. The Nazis filmed these to prove that the Ghetto
wasn’t a bad thing; they were used as propaganda
to show that the Ghetto life wasn’t bad. They showed the Jews dancing, playing
games, talking, and going about their days. They made the films look as
realistic as possible. In one scene they even fired gun shots in to the air to
cause panic. They would do as many retakes as possible to make the scene seem
as real as possible. They would shoot from different angles over and over
again. The retakes showed that everything was staged and unreal. The Nazis made
the Ghetto look like a nice place for the Jews when in reality they were so
cramped they had to step over dead bodies just walking down the streets. The
Nazis were starving the Jews in the Ghetto. They were so cramped that there was
nowhere for people to walk without being next to someone else. The films showed
the Jews happy when they were actually starving, scared, and cramped. After the
Nazis were finished with the Jews in the Ghetto they were sent to concentration camps where many died. When the
film with all the retakes was finally found it had shown what life was actually
like for the Jewish people in the community, it also proved how far the Nazis
would go to change the minds of others to make what they were doing seem
ethical and to get the country to stand behind them.
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