| Description |
| On-screen: |
Danger as the boiler gets really hot |
| Description: |
Tense music that builds in intensity and gets very dramatic as the boiler gets very hot; the mechanical accompaniment continues with its repeating ostinati as the focus shifts back and forth between the boys and the rising temperature gauge |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 55] (keep movement going) / f / tutti; [m. 60] 8va / listesso; [m. 62] 8va; [m. 84] 8va; [m. 65] f; [m. 66] 8va / f; [m. 68] 8va / tremolo / sf; [m. 69] sempre cresc |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 55] Coal shoveling; [m. 59] Gauge 100; [m. 61] Don't give it anymore / Stop it!; [m. 63] Frankie! / Stop it - (he runs up); [m. 64] F. pushes S. away; [m. 65] Engineer; [m. 66] Gauge at 100 (bobs up and down); [m. 67] C.U. Engineer; [m. 68] Opens valve |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 59] organ added; [m. 65] timp; [m. 66] gong roll; [m. 68] brass muted |
| Analysis: |
Dissonant tone clusters (02357 pentachords) and ostinati rise chromatically at different rates |
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| Tags |
action scene | arguing | boiler room | danger | frantic | gang | gauge | heat | hurrying | linear chromaticism | mechanical | pc set | reformatory | shoveling | teenager | temperature | tense | tone cluster | worker | working
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