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Crime School (1938)

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Instance
Gesture name: Gun toss
Start time: 1:10:32
Page #: 85
Measure #: 38
Scene: Reel 8 (Part 2)
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 80
Instrumentation: strings, woodwinds
Description
On-screen: Spike tosses gun on bed
Description: Mickey-mousing gesture as Spike tosses gun on bed
Music annotations: [m. 38] pp / (same as before only 8va lower) / delicato; [m. 39] (let it ring)
Film annotations: [m. 38] Drops gun on bed
Analysis: As with the previous Keys cue, Steiner uses two set classes (0147) and (0258) consistently in this gesture
Tags

advance plot | dropping | gang | gun | mickey-mousing | mysterious | pc set | reformatory | teenager | tense | tossing

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