The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Fur Store | 0:44:20 - Truck arrives at the United Fur Co. | chromatic parallelism | darkness | half-diminished 7th chord | mysterious | pedal tone | store | street | suspenseful | transition | truck |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Night Watchman | 0:44:29 - Watchman arrives at the store | darkness | dissonant bass | flashlight | guard | half-diminished 7th chord | keys | mysterious | opening | robbery | store | suspenseful | walking | working |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Walking | 0:44:39 - The watchman walks | augmented sixth chord | darkness | flashlight | guard | half-diminished 7th chord | mickey-mousing | mysterious | robbery | store | suspenseful | walking | working |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Jonathan 2 | 0:52:48 - Jonathan comes in the window | advance plot | aunt | brother | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | crazy person | dark | darkness | dissonant bass | doctor | intimidating | leading lady | leading man | murderer | ominous | pc set | room | staring | tense |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Jonathan (Fragmented) | 0:53:35 - Jonathan and the doctor go up the stairs | advance plot | aunt | brother | conversing | crazy person | dark | darkness | doctor | fragmentation | intimidating | leading lady | leading man | murderer | ominous | pc set | room | tense |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | The Aunts | 0:53:55 - Aunt Abby goes to the front door | advance plot | aunt | brother | calm | crazy person | darkness | harmonic sequence | leading lady | leading man | murderer | room | silhouette | staring | upbeat | walking |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:54:01 - Aunt Abby goes up the stairs | advance plot | aunt | brother | crazy person | darkness | intimidating | leading lady | leading man | murderer | mysterious | room | silhouette | staring | underscoring |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | The Aunts (Molto Misterioso) | 0:54:12 - Aunt Abby faces Jonathan | advance plot | aunt | brother | crazy person | darkness | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | intimidating | leading lady | leading man | murderer | mysterious | parallel 63s | pedal tone | room | staring | walking |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:54:30 - Jonathan goes up the stairs | advance plot | brother | crazy person | darkness | leading man | murderer | mysterious | room | sneaking | tense | tone cluster | underscoring | walking |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Happy Land (Dirge) | 0:54:54 - Teddy looks for the body in the dark | advance plot | brother | corpse | crazy person | creaking | darkness | dirge | familiar tune | mysterious | opening | pc set | room | sneaking | tense | walking | whole-tone chord |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Funeral March | 0:55:21 - Teddy carries the body down the stairs | advance plot | brother | carrying | chromatic scale | corpse | crazy person | darkness | diminution | dirge | familiar tune | foreign key modulation | funeral march | linear chromaticism | ominous | ostinato | room | tritone | walking |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:56:27 - Einstein looks around in the dark | advance plot | brother | crazy person | dark | darkness | descending | doctor | leading man | match | murderer | plotting | room | sneaking | underscoring |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Blows out match | 0:56:48 - Einstein blows out the match | advance plot | blowing | brother | crazy person | darkness | doctor | extinguishing | leading man | match | mickey-mousing | murderer | room | tense | whole-tone scale |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Jonathan 2 (Dark) | 0:57:04 - Jonathan exits | advance plot | brother | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | conversing | crazy person | dark | darkness | dissonant bass | doctor | falling | leading man | murderer | mysterious | pc set | polychord | room | stinger |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:58:10 - Someone knocks at the door | advance plot | brother | chromatic scale | conversing | corpse | crazy person | darkness | doctor | knocking | leading man | murderer | pc set | room | sequence | sneaking | tense | underscoring |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Here Comes the Bride (Tense) | 0:58:28 - Elaine comes in the door | advance plot | bride | calling | darkness | entering | familiar tune | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | room | sequence | sneaking | tense |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Scar (Tense) | 0:58:39 - Close-up on Dr. Einstein's face | advance plot | bride | brother | calling | close-up | crazy person | darkness | doctor | entering | fear | fragmentation | leading lady | leading man | murderer | polychord | room | sneaking | tense |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Jonathan 2 | 0:58:55 - Jonathan emerges from the shadows | advance plot | bride | brother | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | conversing | crazy person | darkness | dissonant bass | doctor | fear | leading lady | leading man | murderer | pc set | questioning | room | sinister |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:01:21 - They take Elaine into the cellar | 9th chord | aunt | bride | brother | chromatic scale | conflict | crazy person | darkness | diminished 7th chord | doctor | dramatic | fear | fighting | gagging | harmonic sequence | leading lady | leading man | metric dissonance | murderer | oscillation | room | running | self-borrowing | struggling | suspenseful | underscoring |