| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Spring Time (Ominous) | 1:31:04 - The children enter the palace | 9th chord | 64 chord | augmented sixth chord | bright | cheerful | child | common-chord modulation | conversing | deceptive resolution | diminished third chord | duke | governess | leading lady | leading man | mode mixture | ominous | palace | surprise | transition |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Ominous) | 1:31:15 - Henriette talks to the Duke | 9th chord | 64 chord | added-note chord | conversing | duke | foreign key modulation | governess | hopeful | leading lady | leading man | love scene | ominous | palace | reassuring |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Expressivo) | 1:32:32 - Henriette enters the palace | dissonant bass | governess | leading lady | love scene | ominous | palace | somber | walking |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Screwissimo | 1:48:47 - The Duke goes mad | chromatic scale | conflict | conversing | creepy | disturbing | duke | leading lady | leading man | madness | ominous | room | whole-tone chord |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Desperation (Slow) | 1:48:58 - The Duke leaves | chromatic scale | conflict | dissonant bass | duke | leading lady | leading man | leaving | ominous | room | tense |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Murder | 1:51:56 - The Duke advances towards the Duchess | approaching | blur | chromatic scale | climax | dark | diminished 7th chord | duchess | duke | leading lady | leading man | menacing | murder | murdering | murder scene | ominous | pc set | room | strangling |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duchess (Dramatic) | 1:52:48 - Soldiers confront Henriette | accusing | arresting | augmented sixth chord | conflict | landlady | leading lady | ominous | realizing | room | soldier | suspect | tense |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Grandioso) + Desperation (Grandioso) | 1:53:13 - The police wagon leaves | arresting | bold | carriage | conflict | conversing | crowd | crying | dark | dissonant bass | fragmentation | landlady | leading lady | ominous | soldier | street | suspect | tense | testifying |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Ostinato) | 2:10:09 - A carriage leaves | carriage | crowd | dramatic | fragmentation | leading lady | mob | ominous | ostinato | prisoner | soldier | street | suspect | tense | transition | traveling |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Cauldron 1 | 0:00:15 - Title of film | beaker | bubbling | chromatic scale | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | main title | ominous | opening title sequence | parallelism | starring list | title of film |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Cauldron 2 | 0:00:27 - Cast list | 9th chord | beaker | bubbling | cast list | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | main title | ominous | opening title sequence | ostinato | title of film |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Flashlight | 0:48:20 - Doctor shines flashlight on Rocks | anger | annoyance | criminal | doctor | flashlight | gangster | leading man | mickey-mousing | ominous | robbery | shining | store | tense | thief | whole-tone chord |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Rocks (Annoyed) | 0:48:25 - Rocks is annoyed by flashlight | anger | angry | annoyance | criminal | doctor | flashlight | gangster | leading man | ominous | robbery | shining | store | tense | thief | tritone | whole-tone chord |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Jo (At the Phone) | 0:59:24 - Rocks takes the phone apart | 9th chord | advance plot | antagonist | combination of themes | dark | gangster | leading lady | ominous | plotting | room | tense |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Cauldron 1 (End title) | 1:26:33 - The End | beaker | bubbling | chromatic mediant | chromatic scale | closing credits | doctor | end title | foreign key modulation | leading man | mode mixture | ominous | plagal cadence |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:39:58 - Rocky in the drug store | conflict | conversing | gangster | leading man | ominous | setup | shop | telephone | tritone | underscoring |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Pushing forward | 0:40:26 - Man pulls a gun on the cashier | advancing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | dominant 7th chord | gangster | gun | leading man | mickey-mousing | ominous | pedal tone | pushing | shop |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Backing up | 0:40:37 - Rocky pulls a gun on the man following him | backing up | conflict | gangster | gun | leading man | mickey-mousing | ominous | sequence | shop |
| Are These Our Children? (1931) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:30:25 - Eddie attacks boy | arguing | clock | dark | diminished 7th chord | double exposure | dream sequence | fighting | kissing | leading man | love interest | mickey-mousing | montage | ominous | pedal tone | stinger | ticking |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Risoluto 2) | 0:53:55 - Newspaper headlines | advance plot | arresting | dark | detective | double exposure | fragmentation | friend | headline | leading man | love interest | murderer | newspaper | ominous | room | sequential modulation | spinning | thematic transformation | underscoring |
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Transition | 0:00:29 - Cast list | cast list | common-chord modulation | dissonant bass | ominous | opening title sequence | sinister | tritone |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Sidewalks of New York (Quasi Barcarolle) | 0:05:13 - The Brewster home | 64 chord | calm | card | cemetery | chromatic mediant | common-tone diminished 7th | enharmonic modulation | establish setting | familiar tune | gravestone | ominous | stinger | street | wind | wind effect |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Jonathan | 0:18:54 - Jonathan Brewster's picture is shown | advance plot | aunt | conversing | diminished 7th chord | groom | leading lady | leading man | ominous | pc set | picture | room | sinister | stinger |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Jonathan | 0:23:14 - Mortimer reacts to the reveal | calling | conversing | dialing | diminished 7th chord | groom | leading man | ominous | pc set | quartal chord | reveal | room | sinister | stinger | telephone effect | thinking | turning point |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Happy Land (Screwyoso) | 0:39:06 - The aunts talk | added-note chord | advance plot | altered dominant | aunt | calm | cleaning | conversing | crazy person | familiar tune | hat | leading lady | murderer | ominous | room | stinger | suspension |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | The Aunts (Frightened) | 0:39:58 - The aunts see shadows at the door | augmentation | aunt | conversing | crazy person | dark | establish character | fear | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | knocking | leading lady | murderer | mysterious | Neapolitan | ominous | parallel 63s | pedal tone | room | shadow | whispering |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Jonathan 2 | 0:40:30 - Jonathan enters the house | arriving | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | close-up | criminal | dark | dissonant bass | establish character | leading man | observing | ominous | pc set | room | walking | zoom in |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Scar | 0:40:54 - The scar on Jonathan's face | close-up | criminal | dark | establish character | horn flare | leading man | observing | ominous | pc set | polychord | room | scar |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Home Sweet Home (Ominous) | 0:41:03 - Jonathan looks around the house | added-note chord | augmented triad | brother | conversing | crazy person | criminal | dark | dissonant bass | distortion | doctor | establish character | familiar tune | leading man | observing | ominous | room |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Home Sweet Home (Expressivo) + Scar | 0:41:42 - Abby talks to Jonathan | altered dominant | augmented triad | aunt | brother | combination of themes | conversing | convincing | crazy person | criminal | distortion | doctor | establish character | expressive | familiar tune | leading lady | leading man | murderer | mysterious | ominous | room |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Jonathan 2 | 0:43:08 - Jonathan talks about the operation | aunt | brother | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | crazy person | criminal | dark | dissonant bass | doctor | establish character | grabbing | leading lady | leading man | murderer | ominous | pc set | room | struggling | threatening |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Scar | 0:43:20 - Dr. Einstein talks to the aunts | aunt | brother | conversing | crazy person | criminal | dark | doctor | establish character | leading lady | leading man | murderer | ominous | pc set | polychord | room |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | The Aunts (Frightened) | 0:44:00 - The aunts go into the kitchen | augmentation | aunt | brother | conversing | crazy person | criminal | doctor | establish character | fear | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | leading lady | leading man | murderer | mysterious | Neapolitan | ominous | parallel 63s | pedal tone | room | walking | watching |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | The Aunts (Frightened) | 0:45:22 - The aunts peek through the kitchen window | aunt | brother | conversing | crazy person | criminal | doctor | establish character | face | fear | leading lady | leading man | murderer | mysterious | Neapolitan | ominous | parallel 63s | pedal tone | room | snooping | watching |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Scar | 0:45:29 - Dr. Einstein describes how he will fix Jonathan's face | aunt | brother | conversing | crazy person | criminal | dark | doctor | establish character | face | leading lady | leading man | murderer | ominous | pc set | planning | polychord | room | wipe |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Jonathan 2 | 0:49:12 - Jonathan threatens the aunts | advance plot | aunt | brother | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | crazy person | criminal | dark | dissonant bass | doctor | fear | leading lady | leading man | murderer | ominous | pc set | room | threatening |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Scar | 0:49:36 - Dr. Einstein calls to Jonathan | advance plot | aunt | brother | crazy person | criminal | dark | doctor | fear | leading lady | leading man | murderer | ominous | pc set | polychord | room | threatening |
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) | 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) | Jonathan 2 (Ominous) | 1:00:36 - Jonathan backs Elaine into a corner | advance plot | anger | augmented triad | bride | brother | chromatic scale | crazy person | dissonant bass | doctor | fear | hurting | leading lady | leading man | murderer | ominous | polychord | questioning | room | stinger | tense | threatening |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Organ Stinger | 1:01:40 - Aunts emerge in black upstairs | arguing | aunt | brother | conflict | crazy person | leading lady | leading man | murderer | ominous | room | stinger |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | The Victim | 1:30:11 - Mortimer tied up in a chair | brother | captive | conflict | crazy person | doctor | fear | leading man | murderer | ominous | parallel fifths | quartal chord | room | tense | tone cluster | torturing | tritone | victim |
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 |
| Beyond the Forest (1949) | Running | 0:14:40 - Rosa runs to the lodge | advance plot | leading lady | mickey-mousing | mysterious | ominous | outside | running | wife |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Running (Quasi Misterioso) | 0:42:06 - Rosa looks through the account book | advance plot | leading lady | mysterious | ominous | reading | room | wife | writing |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Chicago (Harmonics) | 1:08:31 - Rosa reacts to Moose's warning | anger | angry | contemplating | familiar tune | harsh | leading lady | ominous | popular tune | reacting | room | turning point |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Violent) | 1:08:54 - Rosa slowly turns | anger | angry | contemplating | harsh | leading lady | ominous | reacting | room | turning point |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Violent) + Chicago | 1:09:01 - Rosa heads outside | anger | angry | combination of themes | contemplating | departing | familiar tune | harsh | leading lady | ominous | popular tune | reacting | room | turning point |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Misterioso) | 1:09:23 - Rosa looks through the binoculars | anger | binoculars | forest | friend | hunting | husband | leading lady | leading man | looking | murder scene | mysterious | ominous | tense | victim |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Chicago (Ominous) | 1:10:01 - Rosa puts down the binoculars | aiming | anger | dark | familiar tune | forest | friend | husband | leading lady | leading man | murder scene | ominous | popular tune | victim |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Ominous) | 1:10:14 - Rosa aims her gun | aiming | anger | dark | forest | friend | harsh | husband | leading lady | leading man | murder scene | ominous | stinger | victim |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Threat | 1:16:14 - Rosa lunges forward | advance plot | dark | harsh | leading lady | lunging | murderer | ominous | room | staring | stinger | threatening | violent |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Listesso) | 1:16:48 - Rosa takes the maid's things | advance plot | dark | disguise | dressing | harsh | leading lady | murderer | ominous | room | stealing | violent |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Chicago (Dark) | 1:19:25 - Rosa sitting in a car | action scene | car | car | cliff | conversing | descending | driving | familiar tune | leading lady | leading man | murderer | ominous | popular tune |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Sawmill + Rosa (Stumbling) | 1:30:10 - Rosa struggles to her feet | climax | combination of themes | dark | leading lady | machinery effect | madness | mad scene | murderer | ominous | standing | street | stumbling | walking |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Fever 2) | 1:30:23 - Rosa stumbles forward | climax | dark | leading lady | madness | mad scene | murderer | ominous | street | stumbling | walking |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Carmen (Drugged) | 1:48:08 - Marlowe watches men outside | climax | criminal | fear | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mysterious | ominous | planning | private eye | room | tense | waiting |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Danger) | 1:48:32 - Men approach the house | climax | fear | hiding | leading man | mysterious | ominous | pc set | planning | private eye | room | tense | tone cluster | underscoring | waiting |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe 2 | 1:49:05 - Marlowe holds a gun on Mars | climax | criminal | fear | leading man | mysterious | ominous | private eye | room | sneaking | tense |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Mars Dies | 1:51:43 - Mars falls dead to the ground | criminal | death | dying | falling | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mysterious | ominous | private eye | resolution | room | stinger | tense | underscoring |
| Caged (1950) | Isolation Ward | 0:08:54 - Edna lying in a bed | 9th chord | conversing | dark | dissonant bass | establish character | illness | isolation | leading lady | mysterious | ominous | oscillation | prison | prisoner | rain | uneasy |
Caged (1950) | Wailing (Ominous) | NIF - not in film | bed | bleeding | blood | crazy person | crying | cut from film | dark | leading lady | mad scene | ominous | ostinato | prison | prisoner | tritone | wailing | whole-tone chord |
| City for Conquest (1940) | Googi (The Car) | 1:13:38 - Googi in the car | car | car | conversing | criminal | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | driving | gangster | manager | murder scene | ominous | tense | trill |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Ominous) | 1:14:02 - Googi talks with the boxing managers | 9th chord | arguing | car | car | criminal | dissonant bass | driving | fragmentation | gangster | manager | murder scene | ominous | tense |
City for Conquest (1940) | Googi (The Car) | 1:14:32 - Googi threatens Cobb | car | car | criminal | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | driving | gangster | manager | murder | murderer | murder scene | ominous | tense | threatening | trill |
City for Conquest (1940) | Googi (Hysterical) | 1:14:42 - Cobb pleads for mercy | augmented triad | begging | car | car | chromatic sequence | criminal | driving | equal division of octave | gangster | manager | murder | murderer | murder scene | ominous | tense |
City for Conquest (1940) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:14:48 - Googi threatens Cobb | car | car | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | criminal | dissonant bass | driving | gangster | manager | murder | murderer | murder scene | ominous | tense | threatening |
City for Conquest (1940) | Slap | 1:14:53 - Googi slaps Cobb | car | car | chromatic parallelism | criminal | gangster | manager | mickey-mousing | murder | murderer | murder scene | ominous | pc set | slapping | tense |
City for Conquest (1940) | Googi (Dead Man) | 1:15:09 - They pull out the dead man | car | chromatic scale | conversing | corpse | criminal | disposing | dock | gangster | manager | murderer | murder scene | ominous | ostinato | tense | whole-tone chord | working |
City for Conquest (1940) | Gun falls | 1:15:13 - A gun falls to the ground | car | corpse | criminal | dock | dropping | gangster | gun | manager | mickey-mousing | murderer | murder scene | ominous | tense |
City for Conquest (1940) | Googi (Molto Mysterioso e Screwyoso) | 1:15:19 - Cobb sees the gun | car | chromatic parallelism | conversing | corpse | criminal | disposing | dissonant bass | dock | fragmentation | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | manager | murderer | murder scene | ominous | ostinato | tense | tritone oscillation | working |
City for Conquest (1940) | Kicks body | 1:15:22 - Googi kicks the body into the water | chromatic scale | corpse | criminal | dock | dropping | gangster | kicking | manager | mickey-mousing | murderer | murder scene | ominous | tense |
City for Conquest (1940) | Throws gun away | 1:15:30 - Googi throws a gun in the water | criminal | dock | gangster | gun | manager | mickey-mousing | murderer | murder scene | ominous | tense | throwing |
City for Conquest (1940) | Googi dies | 1:15:34 - Googi is shot | chromatic parallelism | criminal | dock | dying | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | half-diminished 7th chord | manager | mickey-mousing | murderer | murdering | murder scene | ominous | shooting | slumping | tense |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A (Death) | 1:15:39 - Googi dies | criminal | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | dock | dying | falling | gangster | gun | gunshot | manager | murderer | murdering | murder scene | ominous | shooting | slumping | tense |
| Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:08:20 - The kids confront the junk shop owner | attacking | chromatic scale | conflict | death | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | fighting | gang | mickey-mousing | ominous | ostinato | running | shop | shopkeeper | stairs | stinger | teenager | tense | underscoring | up |
Crime School (1938) | The Warden | 0:23:15 - Warden stands up to face the boys | antagonist | arguing | augmented triad | authority | chromatic parallelism | establish character | falling | gang | lightning | ominous | police | reformatory | slapping | stinger | teenager | warden | whole-tone chord |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:09:46 - Boys talk to Frankie | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | gang | gun | keys | mickey-mousing | mysterious | ominous | pc set | plotting | reformatory | teenager | tense | underscoring |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:02:14 - Johnnie overhears the detective | advance plot | chromatic scale | detective | dissonant bass | hiding | leading man | ominous | room | tense | underscoring |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Peggy (Waiting) | 1:24:39 - The detective talks to Johnnie | chromatic scale | climax | dark | detective | diminished 7th chord | dissonant | dissonant bass | leading lady | leading man | lying | ominous | room | waiting |
| Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:33:08 - The Sheriff talks with Ellie | advance plot | conversing | evidence | mother | ominous | porch | sheriff | stinger | tense |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Stinger | 0:51:01 - They see approaching headlights | 42 chord | danger | friend | jail break | leading lady | leading man | ominous | shopkeeper | siren | stinger | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Mysterioso) | 1:05:26 - Joe talks to Mike | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | dark | leading man | linear chromaticism | newspaper editor | office | ominous | somber |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus | 0:01:22 - The Palmer House | altered dominant | dark | establish setting | ominous | politician | self-borrowing | sheriff | street | voice-over |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Inverted) | 0:33:27 - Field arrives at the café | arriving | breakup | café | inversion | leading man | ominous | self-borrowing | sheriff | telephone | worker |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Angry) | 0:45:24 - Titus sees Lane | advance plot | anger | angry | club | dark | leading lady | noticing | ominous | politician | retrograde | self-borrowing | sheriff | sinister | waitress |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus | 1:04:55 - Titus insults Lane | advance plot | dark | leading lady | leading man | ominous | politician | room | self-borrowing | sheriff | threatening |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus | 1:06:35 - Titus leaves | advance plot | dark | leading man | leaving | ominous | politician | room | self-borrowing | sheriff |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Tutti) | 1:08:05 - Titus and Field arrive at the construction site | arriving | dark | dominant 7th chord | half-diminished 7th chord | leading man | ominous | politician | self-borrowing | sheriff | street | transition |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus + Titus 2 | 1:09:43 - Titus bullies Field | advance plot | bullying | chromatic parallelism | combination of themes | commanding | dark | leading man | ominous | ostinato | politician | self-borrowing | sheriff | street |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Menacing) | 1:09:59 - Titus and Field leave | advance plot | bullying | commanding | dark | leading man | menacing | ominous | politician | self-borrowing | sheriff | street |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus | 1:11:01 - Annabelle leaves Titus | advance plot | conversing | dark | ominous | porch | self-borrowing | sheriff | wife |
Flamingo Road (1949) | The Sheriff | 1:12:01 - Titus stands and walks | arguing | bullying | chromatic parallelism | conflict | dark | leading man | mickey-mousing | ominous | politician | room | self-borrowing | sheriff | standing |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Violent) | 1:12:11 - Titus and Field argue | arguing | bullying | conflict | dark | leading man | ominous | politician | room | self-borrowing | sheriff | violent |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus 2 (Buzzer) | 1:13:16 - Titus arrives | arriving | chromatic parallelism | dark | entering | leading lady | maid | ominous | politician | room | self-borrowing | sheriff | transition |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Ostinato) | 1:17:09 - Dan looks at some papers | brooding | conflict | dark | hopeful | husband | leading lady | leading man | ominous | politician | room | self-borrowing | wife |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lane (Ominous) | 1:21:22 - A hand rings the doorbell | advance plot | leading lady | mysterious | ominous | pausing | pedal tone | ringing | room |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Ostinato 2) | 1:23:34 - Field and Lane talk about Titus and Dan | arguing | dark | death scene | dramatic | leading lady | leading man | love interest | ominous | ostinato | room | self-borrowing |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus | 1:28:52 - Lane says Titus's name | advance plot | conversing | dark | friend | leading lady | mob | ominous | room | self-borrowing | zoom in |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Fragmented) + Titus 2 (Fragmented) | 1:29:47 - Lane confronts Titus | arguing | climax | club | combination of themes | dark | fragmentation | inversion | leading lady | motivic transformation | mysterious | ominous | retrograde | self-borrowing | sheriff |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Rising Tension) | 1:30:09 - Lane confronts Titus | arguing | climax | club | dark | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | ominous | self-borrowing | sequence | sheriff |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:30:24 - Lane pulls a gun on Titus | arguing | climax | club | dark | demanding | dramatic | gun | leading lady | ominous | sheriff | stinger | threatening |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Slowly) | 1:30:42 - Lane holds Titus at gunpoint | arguing | climax | club | dark | demanding | dramatic | gun | leading lady | ominous | self-borrowing | sheriff | telephone | threatening |
| Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Amato (Molto Marcato) | 0:13:14 - Steve talks with Fiaschetti | advance plot | brash | conductor score | conversing | dark | detective | gangster | leading man | old man | ominous | porch |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Spring Song (Country Fiddler) | 0:14:56 - Amato talks to Mario | antagonist | boss | conductor score | conversing | dark | establish character | gangster | menacing | office | ominous | out of tune | tritone |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Menace (Very Broad) | 0:17:13 - Amato talks to Lye | antagonist | boss | conductor score | conversing | establish character | gangster | office | ominous |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Amato (Walking) | 0:20:40 - Amato leaves | antagonist | boss | conductor score | conversing | establish character | gangster | office | ominous |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Menace (Molto Misterioso) | 0:29:01 - Steve cleans up | advance plot | cleaning | conductor score | detective | leading man | ominous | room |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Menace (Quasi Agitato) | 0:31:38 - Steve talks with Connors | advance plot | conductor score | conversing | dark | detective | leading man | ominous | room |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Menace 2 (Ominous) | 0:32:00 - Steve talks with the detective | advance plot | arguing | conductor score | conversing | dark | detective | leading man | leaving | ominous | room |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Dark) | 1:19:09 - Marcia and Steve talk | club | conductor score | conversing | dark | leading lady | leading man | love scene | ominous | singer | underscoring | wife |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:30:27 - Steve tells Anna that Mario was murdered | advance plot | conversing | dark | denial | detective | leading man | murder | ominous | priest | room | shock | stinger | underscoring | wife |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Anna (Rubato) | 1:30:35 - Anna tells Steve where to find Amato | advance plot | betraying | conversing | dark | detective | leading man | ominous | priest | room | somber | wife |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Menace | 1:33:12 - Amato hides | action scene | antagonist | boss | dark | fleeing | gangster | hiding | leading lady | leading man | ominous | street | wife |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Amato (Slower) | 1:33:23 - Amato takes Marcia hostage | action scene | conversing | detective | dock | dramatic | gangster | gun | kidnapping | leading lady | leading man | ominous | tense | wife |
| Her Kind of Man (1946) | Underscoring (Dark [Steiner]) | 1:12:32 - Candy reacts | 9th chord | advance plot | arguing | conversing | criminal | dark | gambler | half-diminished 7th chord | henchman | leading man | murderer | ominous | ostinato | underscoring | warehouse |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | Candy (Dark) | 1:12:58 - Candy leaves | bar | calling | conversing | criminal | dark | double-cross | gambler | henchman | husband | leading man | murderer | ominous | pc set | stinger | telephone | turning point | warehouse |
| I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent (Ominous) + Family | 0:38:46 - Matt leaves his apartment | advance plot | combination of themes | communist | dark | discovery | leading lady | letter | ominous | polychord | reacting | reading | self-borrowing | spy | street | teacher | tense | tritone oscillation |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent (Newspaper) | 1:04:11 - FBI agents talk | agent | conversing | dark | leading man | newspaper | ominous | planning | polychord | room | transition | tritone oscillation | undercover agent |
| Illegal (1955) | Ralph | 1:11:41 - Ralph tells Vic to go | dark | ominous |
Illegal (1955) | Ralph (Fanfare) | 1:11:49 - Ralph gets on the phone | dark | ominous | telephone |
| In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:15:04 - Craig refuses Parry's case | conflict | conversing | denying | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | office | ominous | refusing | tritone oscillation | underscoring |
In This Our Life (1942) | London Bridge is Falling Down (Mysterious) | 1:23:45 - Craig and Stanley argue | 9th chord | car | children's song | conflict | conversing | criminal | familiar tune | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | lying | mysterious | ominous |
In This Our Life (1942) | Underscoring (Tense) + South American Way | 1:25:34 - Stanley reacts | accusing | climax | criminal | father | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | lying | mother | mysterious | ominous | remembered source music | remembering | room | source and scoring overlap | source music | suspect | tense | underscoring |
| The Informer (1935) | Blind Man + Blood Money | 0:24:45 - Blind man wanders in and Gypo gives him money | advance plot | antagonist | augmented triad | blind man | combination of themes | giving | leading lady | leading man | money | mysterious | ominous | street | walking |
| Key Largo (1948) | Ominous | 0:51:32 - Lights begin to go out in the hotel | boss | conversing | dark | develop character | father | gangster | hostage | hotel | leading lady | leading man | menacing | moll | ominous | preparing | storm | tense |
Key Largo (1948) | Rocco Pacing | 1:02:01 - Rocco paces back and forth | boss | develop character | father | gangster | hostage | hotel | leading lady | leading man | moll | nervous | ominous | pacing | sinister | walking |
Key Largo (1948) | Moanin’ Low (Ominous) | 1:25:21 - Gaye hands Rocco's gun to McCloud | advance plot | boss | deceiving | deception | familiar tune | gangster | gun | hotel | moll | ominous | tense |
Key Largo (1948) | Rocco (Leaving) | 1:25:33 - Gangsters leave the hotel with McCloud | advance plot | boss | father | gangster | hostage | hotel | leading lady | leading man | leaving | moll | ominous | walking |
| The Letter (1940) | Mr. Hammond Has Been Shot | 0:05:45 - Worker runs in | 11th chord | action scene | altered dominant | dark | death | husband | ominous | reacting | servant | warehouse |
The Letter (1940) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:36:53 - Howard takes out the letter | deception | denying | lawyer | leading lady | letter | ominous | pivotal scene | prison | tense | tritone | tritone | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Plotting) | 0:39:32 - Howard and Leslie plot their next move | 9th chord | advance plot | buildup | changing meter | chromatic sequence | fragmentation | hospital | lawyer | leading lady | letter | minor-major 7th chord | ominous | oscillation | plotting | tense |
The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Ominous) | 0:51:41 - Howard gets up to leave | advance plot | call and response | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | home | lawyer | leading lady | ominous | stretto imitation | thinking |
| Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Menace (Ominous) | 0:17:50 - Newspaper headline about Trev | 9th chord | 64 chord | actor | conversing | dark | establish character | headline | leading lady | leading man | newspaper | ominous | room | suspect |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Father Paul (Ominous) | 1:21:26 - Liza admits to murder | brother | confessing | confession | dark | murderer | ominous | rancher | room | truth | turning point |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Ominous) | 0:12:43 - The detectives talk to Mildred | advance plot | chromatic sequence | conversing | dark | detective | fragmentation | heroine | imitation | leading lady | ominous | room |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Misterioso) | 0:54:01 - Bert tells Mildred that Kay is sick | bad news | conversing | dark | death scene | distress | ex-husband | heroine | leading lady | mysterious | ominous | stinger | street | turning point | whole-tone scale |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Sly) | 1:13:55 - Mildred tells Monte to not see Veda | arguing | breakup | chromatic wedge | chromatic wedge | conflict | disagreement | heroine | leading lady | love interest | ominous | room | sinister | tense | whole-tone chord |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Troubled) | 1:14:06 - Mildred and Monte argue | arguing | breakup | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | conflict | disagreement | fragmentation | heroine | leading lady | love interest | ominous | room | sinister | tense | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Ominous) | 1:22:43 - Veda argues with her mother | antagonist | arguing | conflict | dark | daughter | heroine | insulting | leading lady | ominous | room | ugly |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Ominous) | 1:45:25 - Mildred walks downstairs | arriving | climax | dark | fragmentation | half-diminished 7th chord | heroine | imitation | leading lady | ominous | room |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Very Slow) | 1:46:22 - Mildred reacts to Veda's betrayal | antagonist | betrayal | climax | contemplating | dark | daughter | gun | heroine | leading lady | ominous | parallel 63s | room |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Kay and Veda (Ominous) | 1:47:42 - Mildred rushes in to check on Veda | antagonist | confessing | dark | daughter | heroine | leading lady | lying | murder | murderer | murder scene | ominous | room |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Ominous) | 1:48:41 - Mildred calls the police | antagonist | begging | chromatic sequence | daughter | fragmentation | heroine | imitation | leading lady | murderer | murder scene | ominous | room | tense |
| Out of the Fog (1941) | Russian Barcarolle (Ominous) | 0:40:09 - Stella talks to Goff | conversing | criminal | dock | leading lady | leading man | love scene | ominous |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Russian Barcarolle (Troubled) | 0:53:43 - Stella talks with her father | advance plot | bold | conversing | dark | father | fisherman | leading lady | ominous | room |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Russian Barcarolle (Fragmented 2) | 1:07:35 - A boat in the fog | conflict | criminal | dark | fisherman | fragmentation | friend | leading man | menacing | ominous | sea | traveling |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Russian Barcarolle (Menacing) | 1:09:32 - Goffs sees Olaf holding a lead pipe | arguing | attempted murder | climax | criminal | dark | fisherman | friend | leading man | menacing | ominous | sea | stinger |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Russian Barcarolle (Drowning) | 1:09:58 - Goff drowns | attempted murder | climax | criminal | dark | death | drowning | fisherman | friend | leading man | ominous | sea |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Morgue | 1:12:37 - The morgue | action scene | arriving | conversing | corpse | death | fear | leading lady | morgue | ominous | police | tense |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Russian Barcarolle (Dead) | 1:13:15 - Stella sees Goff's body | action scene | arguing | corpse | crying | dark | death | fear | leading lady | morgue | ominous | police |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Chris (Dark) | 0:07:46 - Chris continues driving | 9th chord | advance plot | antagonist | calm | danger | dissonant bass | foreign key modulation | house | leading lady | ominous | sequential modulation | shadow | tritone | tritone oscillation | walking |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Ominous) | 0:43:39 - Secretary makes a call | advance plot | dialing | law office | lawyer | monophonic | office | ominous | phone call | sinister | spinning |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Ominous) | 1:10:22 - Bob meets the art dealer | antagonist | blackmail | husband | monophonic | ominous | park | transition | waiting |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Driving) | 1:10:31 - Bob rides in a car | car | driving | husband | minor-major 7th chord | ominous | street | transition | whole-tone |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Newspaper) | 0:31:52 - David sits and whistles | 9th chord | classical music | deceptive resolution | familiar tune | foreshadowing | happy | Haydn | hero | home | ominous | quotation | reveal | transition | whistling |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Ghostly) | 1:49:22 - Gerald talks to Susan | antagonist | boy | child | conclusion | death | eerie | familiar tune | folk song | German | home | ominous | quotation | room | tone cluster |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Ghostly) | 1:49:48 - Gerald talks to Susan | antagonist | boy | child | classical music | conclusion | death | eerie | familiar tune | Haydn | home | ominous | on-screen music | quotation | remembered source music | room | source music | tone cluster | whistling |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (6th chime) | NIF - not in film | conclusion | cut from film | eerie | familiar tune | folk song | fragmentation | German | ominous | quotation | tone cluster |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Fading Away) | 1:50:19 - Susan looks surprised | antagonist | boy | child | conclusion | death | eerie | familiar tune | folk song | fragmentation | German | home | ominous | quotation | room | tone cluster |
| White Heat (1949) | Pursuit (Ominous) | 0:22:08 - Agents arrive at the motel | advance plot | agent | arriving | car | driving | motor effect | ominous | pursuing | street | telephone | tense |
White Heat (1949) | Prison | 0:35:40 - The prison walls | conversing | dark | leading man | ominous | prison | prisoner | transition | undercover agent |
White Heat (1949) | Misterioso (Ominous) | 0:40:51 - The prisoners talk | advance plot | conversing | gangster | leading man | murderer | mysterious | ominous | prison | prisoner | tense | undercover agent | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Prison | 1:04:01 - The prison walls | dramatic | ominous | prison | transition |
White Heat (1949) | Bo Creel | 1:35:51 - Bo Creel comes outside | advance plot | conversing | dark | fugitive | gangster | leading man | murderer | ominous | preparing | stinger | tense | truck | undercover agent | worker | working | yard |
White Heat (1949) | Truck (Speeding) | 1:37:36 - Tanker drives down the street | chase scene | driving | fugitive | gangster | leading man | murderer | ominous | speeding | street | truck | undercover agent |
White Heat (1949) | Truck (Tutti) | 1:39:43 - Tanker pulls up to factory | chase scene | dramatic | driving | fugitive | gangster | leading man | murderer | ominous | street | truck | undercover agent |
White Heat (1949) | Cody (Mugs) | 1:39:57 - Gangsters in the tanker | arriving | chase scene | dramatic | driving | factory | fugitive | gangster | guard | leading man | murderer | ominous | truck | truck | undercover agent | waiting |
| The Woman in White (1948) | Fosco (Ominous) | 0:35:03 - Fosco's carriage approaches | arriving | carriage | dark | garden | leading lady | leading man | ominous | transition |
The Woman in White (1948) | Underscoring (Dark) | 0:43:00 - The woman in white talks to Walter | advance plot | conversing | dark | garden | leading lady | leading man | ominous | stinger | underscoring |
The Woman in White (1948) | Ann (Quasi Misterioso) | 1:29:00 - Count Fosco talks to Sir Percival | antagonist | asylum | conversing | criminal | husband | hypnotist | leading man | mad scene | murderer | ominous |
The Woman in White (1948) | Hypnosis + Fosco | 1:30:32 - Count Fosco leaves | antagonist | carriage | combination of themes | criminal | dark | husband | hypnotist | leading man | leaving | murderer | ominous | plotting | spy | spying | street | tense | transition |
The Woman in White (1948) | Underscoring (Dark) | 1:34:10 - A patient in the asylum | asylum | comedy | key | ominous | patient | shuffling | underscoring | walking | worker | working |
The Woman in White (1948) | Fosco (Dark) | 1:36:50 - Sir Percival on the ground | conflict | criminal | dark | husband | leading lady | leading man | murderer | ominous | patient | spy | street | victim | walking | wife |
The Woman in White (1948) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:44:06 - The countess enters | climax | conversing | criminal | dark | friend | leading lady | leading man | love interest | murderer | necklace | ominous | room | transcribed by ear | wife |
| Hat, Coat, and Glove (1934) | Newspaper Montage | 0:32:22 - Newspaper headlines | dark | headline | montage | newspaper | ominous | tragic | transcribed by ear | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
| Without Honor (1949) | Twilight (Agitato) | 0:08:54 - Jane talks to Dennis | adulterer | affair | arguing | breaking up | breakup | crying | death scene | kitchen | leading lady | leading man | love interest | mysterious | ominous | tense |
Without Honor (1949) | Twilight (Maestoso) | 0:09:36 - Dennis on the ground | addicent | adulterer | death | death scene | dramatic | dying | kitchen | knife | leading lady | leading man | love interest | ominous | reacting | skewer | standing | struggling |
Without Honor (1949) | Twilight (Washing Machine) | 0:10:14 - Dennis by the washing machine | addicent | adulterer | death | death scene | dramatic | dying | kitchen | knife | leading lady | leading man | love interest | motor effect | ominous | reacting | skewer | struggling | washing machine |
Without Honor (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:12:11 - Jane wipes blood off of the floor | blood | death scene | kitchen | leading lady | ominous | tense | underscoring | washing |
Without Honor (1949) | Twilight (Very Slow) | 0:16:06 - Jane stops suddenly | advance plot | child | dark | door | leading lady | ominous | room | scout | walking |
Without Honor (1949) | Twilight (Adagio) | 0:17:41 - Jane walks | advance plot | dark | leading lady | ominous | reacting | room | thinking | walking |
Without Honor (1949) | Valse Triste (Ominous) | 0:24:46 - Bill looks at Jane | antagonist | brother | conflict | leading lady | leading man | ominous | reacting | room | solemn | taunting |
| The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Russian Waltz (The Castle) + The Iron Door | 0:09:42 - Count Zaroff's castle | approaching | castle | combination of themes | establish setting | jungle | leading man | looking | ominous | walking |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Russian Waltz (Door Opens) | 0:10:26 - The iron door slowly opens | arriving | castle | door | door knocker | establish setting | leading man | mickey-mousing | ominous | sneaking | statue | walking |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Zaroff | 0:13:51 - Bob looks at Zaroff | castle | count | establish character | leading man | mute | ominous | servant | staring | walking | watching |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Centaur | 0:13:56 - Bob sees a centaur on the tapestry | castle | count | establish character | jump scare | leading man | mute | ominous | servant | staring | stinger | tapestry |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Zaroff (Staring) | 0:14:08 - The Count watches Bob | castle | count | establish character | leading man | mute | ominous | servant | staring | walking | watching |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Russian Waltz (Zoom In) | 0:27:16 - Zaroff looks up at Eve | advance plot | brother | castle | close-up | conversing | count | departing | drunk | frantic | leading lady | leading man | mute | ominous | servant | stinger | zoom in |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Russian Waltz (Adagio) + The Iron Door | 0:31:06 - Bob and Eve descend the stairs | candle | castle | dark | descending | leading lady | leading man | ominous | searching | sneaking | turning point | walking |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Russian Waltz (Maestoso) | 0:38:32 - Bob and Eve are taken to the jungle | action scene | conversing | fanfare | jungle | leading lady | leading man | mute | ominous | preparing | prisoner | releasing | servant | walking |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Zaroff (Slowly) + Russian Waltz + The Iron Door | 0:39:04 - Zaroff stares at Bob and Eve | action scene | combination of themes | count | jungle | ominous | smoking | staring | villain | watching |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Russian Waltz (Andante) | 0:44:07 - Close up on Zaroff | action scene | count | dark | departing | hiding | jungle | knife | leading lady | leading man | ominous | sneaking | victim | villain | waiting | watching |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Russian Waltz (Fog Hollow) + The Iron Door | 0:45:46 - Bob and Eve see Fog Hollow | action scene | combination of themes | fog | jungle | leading lady | leading man | ominous | preparing | victim |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Courage + Russian Waltz + Iron Door | 0:49:23 - Bob and Eve running away | chase scene | combination of themes | dark | dramatic | fog | jungle | leading lady | leading man | ominous | preparing | running | victim |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Chase + Russian Waltz (Augmented) | 0:52:02 - Dogs running through the swamp | agitated | barking | chase scene | chasing | combination of themes | count | dog | dramatic | jungle | leading lady | leading man | ominous | running | servant | victim | villain |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Iron Door (Slow) | 0:52:19 - Eve falls on a log | chase scene | chasing | dark | jungle | leading lady | leading man | log | ominous | running | standing | victim |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Zaroff (Risolutissimo) + The Iron Door | 0:56:17 - Eve is captured | capturing | climax | close-up | combination of themes | count | jungle | leading lady | ominous | river | servant | victim | villain | walking | waterfall |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | The Iron Door (Climax) | 0:56:25 - A close-up on Eve | climax | close-up | count | jungle | leading lady | ominous | reacting | river | servant | victim | villain | waterfall |
| Caged (1950) | Isolation Ward (Dark) | 1:17:27 - Shadows on Marie's face | dark | departing | dissonant bass | guard | isolation | leading lady | mad scene | mysterious | ominous | oscillation | polychord | prison | prisoner | shadow | solitary | staring | uneasy | walking |
| Mara Maru (1952) | On Deck (Minor) | 1:03:17 - Gregory boards the ship | action scene | antagonist | assisting | bodyguard | captain | dark | diver | leading lady | leading man | love interest | ominous | private eye | radio | rising | sabotaging | saboteur | ship | ship | sneaking | surfacing | traitor | worker | working |
Mara Maru (1952) | Benedict (Bored to Death) | 1:07:34 - Benedict threatens to kill Gregory | antagonist | conversing | dark | leading lady | love interest | mysterious | ominous | plotting | reveal character | ship | ship | stinger | tense | threat | turning point |
Mara Maru (1952) | Benedict (Menacing) | 1:34:30 - Ortega tries to block the door | action scene | antagonist | arguing | blocking | bodyguard | catacomb | cave | climax | cross | defending | dramatic | gun | gunshot | leading man | martyr | menacing | murderer | ominous | protecting | pushing | running | tunnel | victim |
Mara Maru (1952) | Ascending the stairs | 1:35:08 - Benedict runs up the stairs | action scene | antagonist | ascending | catacomb | cave | chasing | climax | dramatic | mickey-mousing | murderer | ominous | running | stairs | tense | tunnel |
| Roar of the Dragon (1932) | Manchuria (Stinger) | 0:00:13 - the title and and a Buddha statue next to flaming incense | dark | exotic | mysterious | ominous |
Roar of the Dragon (1932) | Manchuria (Eerie) | 0:00:53 - credits and cast list | eerie | exotic | mysterious | ominous |
Roar of the Dragon (1932) | Voronsky's Theme | 0:01:52 - the wanted poster for bandit Voronsky | dramatic | ominous |
Roar of the Dragon (1932) | Manchuria (Stinger) | 0:02:02 - | dark | mysterious | ominous |
Roar of the Dragon (1932) | Voronsky's Theme | 0:02:14 - campfire | exotic | ominous | Voronsky's bandit camp |
Roar of the Dragon (1932) | Voronsky's Theme (Tense) | 1:04:06 - | dark | dramatic | ominous |
Roar of the Dragon (1932) | Voronsky's Theme (Anticipation) | 1:05:10 - | ominous | solemn |
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