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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)


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Instance
Gesture name: Arms crossing
Start time: 0:47:10
End time: 0:47:16
Total duration: 0:00:06
Page #: 22
Measure #: 71
Scene: Reel 5 Part 2
Key: chromatic
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 108
Instrumentation: strings



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Description
Description: Mickey-mousing gesture as criminal crosses his arms (upper strings move down and lower strings move up chromatically, mimicking the physical gesture on-screen)
On-screen: Criminal crosses his arms
Music annotations: [m. 71] legato / p
Film annotations: [m. 71] He does it / Brings them together; [m. 72] Stops / Ah-ha! / Wait a minute
Orchestration annotations: [m. 71] strings / harp / strings
Analysis: The top voices move chromatically down in parallel minor thirds and the lower voices move upwards in parallel diminished seventh chords; the gesture starts and ends with the voices consonant with each other (eo7 to co7)
Tags

arm | chromatic parallelism | comical | criminal | crossing | diminished 7th chord | gangster | mickey-mousing | robbery | rooftop | thief | wedge

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