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Crime School (1938)


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Instance
Gesture name: Explosion
Start time: 0:57:21
End time: 0:57:29
Total duration: 0:00:08
Page #: 72
Measure #: 27
Scene: Reel 7
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 120
Instrumentation: orchestra



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Description
Description: Rising temperature (close up on gauge) with rising pitch, leading up to a larger explosion
On-screen: Mark pulls Squirt out of the boiler room
Music annotations: [m. 27] tremolo / f; [m. 28] 8va / sempre crescendo; [m. 29] 8va / sff / sfffz; [m. 30] sffz / risoluto
Film annotations: [m. 27] Gauge; [m. 28] B. starts upstairs; [m. 29] Explosion; [m. 30] Rafter hits / Outside
Orchestration annotations: [m. 27] organ, W.W., piccolo, etc (as always only fuller) / gong roll and cymbal / timp; [m. 29] organ, trbs etc all other instruments / T.C. + timp etc
Analysis: Dissonant 8-pitch sonorities rise chromatically
Tags

action scene | ascending | boiler room | destruction | dissonant bass | dramatic | exploding | explosion | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | rising | stairs | teenager | tense | tone cluster

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