| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Poison | 1:08:46 - Rocks feels the effect of the poison | blur | chromatic parallelism | diminution | doctor | dreaming | drugs | ethereal | gangster | layering | leading lady | leading man | murder | murderer | murdering | murder scene | office | oscillation | ostinato | pc set | poison | poisoning | polychord | stinger | tone cluster |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Printing Press + Cauldron 1 | 1:21:08 - Newspaper presses rolling | combination of themes | common-tone diminished 7th | headlines | layering | montage | newspaper | obsessive | ostinato | printing press | step modulation |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Printing Press + Cauldron 1 (Not in Film) + The Amazing Doctor (Not in Film) | NIF - not in film | combination of themes | common-tone diminished 7th | cut from film | layering | ostinato | step modulation |
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Knives | 1:31:05 - Mortimer looks at the knives | acceleration | brother | captive | chromatic parallelism | close-up | conflict | crazy person | diminution | doctor | fear | layering | leading man | murderer | ominous | oscillation | ostinato | pc set | polychord | room | tense | tone cluster | torturing | victim |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Down the Stairs + The Chase + Marlowe (Action) | 0:56:39 - Marlowe chases the killer | assassin | chase scene | chasing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | descending | dissonant bass | dramatic | gun | gunshot | heroic | layering | leading man | murderer | private eye | room | running | stairs | tense |
| The Informer (1935) | The Irish Washerwoman (Pub) + Blood Money + The Wearin' o' the Green + The Informer | 0:44:52 - People celebrate in the pub | advance plot | antagonist | bar | chaotic | chromatic scale | close-up | combination of themes | crowd | dark | dissonant bass | excited | familiar tune | folk song | foreign key modulation | happy | heroic | Irish | layering | leading man | mob | mobbing | octatonic | parallelism | pedal tone | polytonality | rebel | serving | source to score | spying | tense | whole-tone | yelling | zoom in |
| The Letter (1940) | Chinese Shop | 0:55:30 - Howard and Leslie look around | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | exotic | exoticism | lawyer | layering | leading lady | Lydian mode | mirroring | mysterious | open fifth | parallel fifths | parallelism | polytonality | quintal chord | tense | transition | waiting | walking |
The Letter (1940) | Glass Curtains | 0:59:08 - Mrs. Hammond enters through the glass curtain | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | chromatic scale | conflict | curtain | entering | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | polyrhythm | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | waiting | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond + Glass Curtains | 1:00:13 - Leslie faces Mrs. Hammond | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | conversing | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | paying | pc set | pentatonic | polyrhythm | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | waiting | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie + Glass Curtains | 1:01:27 - Leslie removes her shawl | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | conversing | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | oscillation | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | polyrhythm | sequence | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | waiting | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie B + Glass Curtains | 1:01:57 - Leslie approaches Mrs. Hammond | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | confronting | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | polyrhythm | sequence | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | walking | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Glass Curtains | 1:02:21 - Leslie faces Mr. Hammond | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | chromatic scale | conflict | confronting | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | polyrhythm | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Contempt) + Glass Curtains | 1:02:40 - Leslie stoops down to pick up the letter | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | confronting | contempt | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | pentatonic | polyrhythm | shop | staring | stooping | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie B (Dark) + Glass Curtains | 1:02:50 - Leslie looks at the letter | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | confronting | curtain | dark | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | polyrhythm | sequence | shop | staring | tense | tinkling | tone cluster | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Mrs. Hammond (Solemn) + Glass Curtains | 1:03:08 - Leslie and Howard leave | antagonist | Chinatown | Chinese | Chinese | chromatic scale | combination of themes | conflict | curtain | glass | lawyer | layering | leading lady | mirroring | mysterious | ostinato | parallelism | pc set | pentatonic | polyrhythm | shop | solemn | staring | tinkling | tone cluster | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Birds | NIF - not in film | augmentation | birds | chromatic mediant | cut from film | inversion | layering | pastoral | pentatonic |
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