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Crime School (1938)


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Instance
Gesture name: Temperature oscillating
Start time: 0:55:28
End time: 0:55:31
Total duration: 0:00:03
Page #: 63
Measure #: 50
Scene: Reel 6 (Part 2)
Key: unstable
Meter: 2/4
Tempo (bpm): 112
Instrumentation: percussion, orchestra
Description
On-screen: Close up of oscillating temperature gauge
Description: Back and forth motion as the temperature gauge oscillates between 90 and 92 degrees; again represented by a high tone cluster; the mechanical accompaniment continues
Music annotations: [m. 50] The gauge effect as before (the triplets may be in piano, celeste harp etc) (should sound weird) I'm trying to play: the boys working, while the gauge is seen going up and up and down / mf / legato
Film annotations: [m. 50] Gauge 95 to 100 and back; [m. 52] Squirt; [m. 54] Hey, Frankie its over 90
Orchestration annotations: [m. 50] timp / (gong)
Tags

action scene | boiler room | danger | frantic | gang | gauge | heat | mechanical | mickey-mousing | reformatory | teenager | temperature | tense | tone cluster | watching

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