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In This Our Life (1942)


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Instance
Theme name: Underscoring (Dramatic)
Start time: 1:09:01
End time: 1:09:12
Total duration: 0:00:11
Page #: 86
Measure #: 5
Scene: Reel 7 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 126
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Stanley has an accident
Description: Dramatic underscoring as Stanley accidentally runs into a mother and a daughter with her car, looks back, then drives away
Music annotations: [m. 5] molto cresc / ff / gliss / sffz; [m. 7] ff / flutter; [m. 9] flutter; [m. 10] sffz / dim
Film annotations: [m. 5] Child on ground / Mother dead; [m. 7] It stops / Goo goo eyes; [m. 8] Dead people; [m. 9] Goo goo eyes; [m. 10] she turns
Orchestration annotations: [m. 5] violins / W.W. also piccolo / brass / tuba / gong / timp / tutti (3 trbs etc); [m. 7] W.W. / picc / trpts + horns / tpts (sord); [m. 8] gong; [m. 9] 3 trpts / 1 horn / 3 horn; [m. 10] gong
Analysis: Clashing whole-tone, diatonic and chromatic scales are heard as she hits the pedestrians with her car; brash (0157) sonorities are heard as we see her glaring "googoo" eyes
Tags

car | child | chromatic scale | crashing | crime scene | criminal | dramatic | driving | drunk | leading lady | pc set | street | victim | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale

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