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I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951)

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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Tense)
Start time: 1:11:00
End time: 1:11:05
Total duration: 0:00:05
Page #: 48
Measure #: 43
Scene: Reel 8
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 120
Instrumentation: strings, woodwinds
Description
On-screen: Communists interrogate Matt
Description: A rising chromatic gesture and woodwind trills precede impending violence; Steiner takes part of the music from a scene that occurs later in the film (original Reel 8)
Music annotations: [m. 43] f
Film annotations: [m. 43] Grabs Matt
Tags

anger | communist | interrogating | interrogation | leading man | questioning | shallow focus | suspicion | suspicion | tense | threatening | undercover agent | underscoring | whole-tone chord

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