When Lydia goes to Dan Fawcett's house and suddenly discovers his dead body, eyes pecked out by murderous birds, Hitchcock first gives the audience a semi-long shot view of the body, followed quickly by a semi-closeup, followed quickly by an extreme closeup, all in a matter of a few seconds. This cinematic device was first used by director James Whale in the 1931 film Frankenstein as the audience gets its first look at the monster.

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