| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Gangster (Reformatory) | 0:05:04 - Sign: "Society for Juvenile Delinquents" | establish character | main title | Neapolitan | prisoner | reformatory | serious | sign | somber | teenager |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Gangster (Fingerprints) | 0:06:17 - Montage of juvenile detention and prison life | digging | dramatic | establish character | fingerprints | foreign key modulation | headline | leading man | main title | marching | montage | mug shot | newspaper | prison | prisoner | reformatory | sequence | serious | working |
| 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 (Mysterious) | 0:24:12 - Gang settles into their room | advance plot | conversing | dissonant bass | gang | mysterious | pedal tone | reformatory | teenager | underscoring |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:27:20 - Frankie is taken to the warden's office | develop character | reformatory | teenager | tense | threatening | underscoring | warden | whip |
Crime School (1938) | The Warden (Quasi Mysterioso) | 0:27:46 - Warden approaches Frankie with a whip | chromatic parallelism | develop character | reformatory | rising | standing | teenager | tense | threatening | warden | whip |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:28:01 - Frankie escapes from the warden's office | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | escape | escaping | half-diminished 7th chord | hiding | mickey-mousing | ostinato | reformatory | running | teenager | tense | throwing | tone cluster | warden | whole-tone scale |
Crime School (1938) | Alarm | 0:28:16 - Alarm sounds | alarm | blowing | escape | mickey-mousing | reformatory | sounding | tense | tone cluster | whistle |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:28:21 - Boys wonder about the alarm | alarm | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | dissonant bass | escape | gang | pc set | reformatory | teenager | tense | whistle | wondering |
Crime School (1938) | Searchlights | 0:28:27 - Boys wonder about the searchlight | chromatic parallelism | escape | gang | mickey-mousing | reformatory | searchlight | teenager | tense | wondering |
Crime School (1938) | Escaping | 0:28:32 - Frankie runs and hides | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | dissonant bass | dramatic | escape | escaping | hiding | mickey-mousing | police | reformatory | running | sequence | sneaking | teenager | tense | tone cluster |
Crime School (1938) | Searchlights (Sneaking) | 0:28:47 - Frankies hides from the searchlight | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | escape | escaping | hiding | jumping | mickey-mousing | police | reformatory | running | searchlight | sneaking | teenager | tense |
Crime School (1938) | The Warden (Risoluto) | 0:29:03 - Warden looks for Frankie | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | escape | looking | reformatory | searching | tense | warden |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:29:09 - Frankie hides then runs | barbed wire fence | battle call | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | escape | escaping | gang | hiding | jumping | mickey-mousing | reformatory | running | teenager | tense |
Crime School (1938) | Sue (Barbed Wire) | 0:29:18 - Frankie gets caught on barbed wire | anguished | barbed wire fence | battle call | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | climbing | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | dramatic | escape | half-diminished 7th chord | pain | pc set | reformatory | struggling | teenager | tense |
Crime School (1938) | The Warden (The Guards) | 0:29:34 - Warden's guards run to catch Frankie | 64 chord | anguished | barbed wire fence | battle call | capturing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | dragging | dramatic | escape | falling | pc set | police | reformatory | running | sequence | teenager | tense | warden |
Crime School (1938) | Dragging | 0:29:51 - Warden's guards drag Frankie through the rain | accented dissonance | anguished | capturing | chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | dragging | dramatic | escape | kicking | mickey-mousing | police | reformatory | splashing | teenager | tense | warden |
Crime School (1938) | The Warden (Capture) | 0:29:58 - Frankie is caught and dragged to the warden | dragging | dramatic | escape | police | reformatory | teenager | tense | warden |
Crime School (1938) | Window closing | 0:30:05 - Boys close their window | chromatic parallelism | closing | escape | gang | mickey-mousing | reformatory | somber | teenager | whole-tone scale | window |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:30:08 - Guards take Frankie inside | begging | chromatic scale | dissonant bass | dragging | dramatic | escape | fear | reformatory | teenager | tense | warden |
Crime School (1938) | The Whip | 0:30:15 - The warden uses his whip | begging | dramatic | escape | fear | reformatory | teenager | tense | warden | whip | whipping |
Crime School (1938) | Reform School Drill | 0:33:18 - Reform school boys exercise outside | comedy | cut from film | deceptive resolution | exercising | exercising music | foreign key modulation | gang | jogging | leading man | polychord | reformatory | split-third chord | teenager | upbeat | warden |
Crime School (1938) | Reform School Drill | 0:34:09 - Reform school boys exercise outside | comedy | deceptive resolution | exercising | exercising music | foreign key modulation | gang | jogging | leading man | polychord | reformatory | teenager | upbeat | warden |
Crime School (1938) | Pants falling | 0:34:10 - Squirt's pants fall down | comedy | comical | falling | mickey-mousing | pants | reformatory | teenager |
Crime School (1938) | Reform School Drill (Coda) | 0:35:01 - Reform school boys exercise outside | comedy | exercising | gang | jogging | leading man | reformatory | teenager | upbeat | warden |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 0:35:46 - Mark visits Frankie in the sick room | advance plot | caring | conversing | dark | hospital | leading man | reformatory | teenager | tender | underscoring | warden |
Crime School (1938) | Marks | 0:36:14 - Mark looks at the whip marks on Frankie's back | advance plot | dark | hospital | leading man | looking | reformatory | teenager | violence | warden | wounded |
Crime School (1938) | The Warden (Punishment) | 0:36:22 - Warden defends his punishment | advance plot | chromatic wedge | conversing | dark | evil | hospital | leading man | reformatory | teenager | warden | whole-tone chord |
Crime School (1938) | The Drunken Doctor | 0:36:35 - Drunk doctor comes in | advance plot | alcohol | altered dominant | comical | doctor | drinking | drunk | drunk | hospital | parallel period | reformatory |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Subtle) | 0:37:09 - Transition to cafeteria | advance plot | conversing | hospital | leading man | reformatory | somber | teenager | underscoring | warden |
Crime School (1938) | The Painters | 0:48:02 - Boys paint their room | calm | comedy | foreign key modulation | gang | paint | paintbrush | painting | peaceful | reformatory | see-saw | swing | swinging | teenager |
Crime School (1938) | Paint slap | 0:48:32 - Boys hit each other with paint brushes | comedy | gang | mickey-mousing | paint | paintbrush | painting | playful | reformatory | slapping | teasing | teenager | whole-tone chord |
Crime School (1938) | The Discus Thrower | 0:48:52 - Spike announces his "work of art" | announcing | comedy | fun | gang | hero | interruption | leading man | reformatory | showman | teenager |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 0:49:10 - Mark comes into the room | comedy | conversing | gang | gentle | hero | leading man | paint | parallelism | reformatory | teenager | underscoring |
Crime School (1938) | Spots | 0:49:20 - Squirt has spots on his pajamas | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | comedy | comical | conversing | gang | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | paint | reformatory | spots | teenager | tense |
Crime School (1938) | Unveiling the statue | 0:49:31 - Mark takes the veil off of the statue | 64 chord | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | comedy | gang | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | teenager | tense | uncovering | unveiling |
Crime School (1938) | Marble statue | 0:49:40 - Fats talks to Mark | comedy | comical | gang | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | statue | teasing | teenager |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Gentle) | 0:49:47 - Mark talks about making this room their home | comedy | deceptive resolution | gang | gentle | hero | leading man | leaving | pedal tone | reformatory | teasing | teenager | underscoring | whole-tone chord |
Crime School (1938) | Gangster Blues (Painting) | 0:50:45 - The boys paint their room | 13th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | comedy | comical | gang | painting | reformatory | setting | teenager | working |
Crime School (1938) | Paints face | 0:50:55 - Boy paints the guard's face | accident | comedy | comical | mickey-mousing | painting | police | reformatory | teenager |
Crime School (1938) | Slips on paint | 0:51:01 - Guard chases boy then slips and falls on paint | accident | chromatic scale | comedy | comical | falling | mickey-mousing | police | reformatory | slipping | teenager | walking |
Crime School (1938) | The Warden (Office) | 0:51:05 - The guard enters to talk to Mark | comedy | dramatic | hero | leading man | marching | police | reformatory | walking |
Crime School (1938) | Laughing | 0:51:11 - Mark laughs at the guard covered with paint | comedy | comical | hero | laughing | leading man | mickey-mousing | police | reformatory |
Crime School (1938) | The Boiler Room | 0:54:27 - Boys talk about stoking the boiler | action scene | auctioning | boiler room | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | dissonant bass | fanfare | gang | heroic | reformatory | teenager | working |
Crime School (1938) | Gangster Blues (Mechanical) | 0:54:46 - Boys get to work | 13th chord | action scene | added-note chord | altered dominant | boiler room | coal | danger | fire | fire | frantic | gang | gauge | heat | hurrying | mechanical | reformatory | sequence | shoveling | smoke | teenager | temperature | temperature | working |
Crime School (1938) | Temperature rising | 0:54:53 - Close up of rising temperature gauge | action scene | boiler room | danger | frantic | gang | gauge | heat | mechanical | mickey-mousing | reformatory | rising | teenager | temperature | tense | tone cluster | watching |
Crime School (1938) | Temperature stable | 0:55:07 - Close up of stable temperature gauge | action scene | boiler room | danger | frantic | gang | gauge | heat | mechanical | mickey-mousing | reformatory | teenager | temperature | tense | tone cluster | watching |
Crime School (1938) | Temperature oscillating | 0:55:28 - Close up of oscillating temperature gauge | action scene | boiler room | danger | frantic | gang | gauge | heat | mechanical | mickey-mousing | reformatory | teenager | temperature | tense | tone cluster | watching |
Crime School (1938) | Boiler Overheating | 0:55:31 - Danger as the boiler gets really hot | action scene | arguing | boiler room | danger | frantic | gang | gauge | heat | hurrying | linear chromaticism | mechanical | pc set | reformatory | shoveling | teenager | temperature | tense | tone cluster | worker | working |
Crime School (1938) | Gangster Blues (Explosion) | 0:56:04 - The boiler explodes | 13th chord | action scene | added-note chord | boiler room | collapsing | escaping | exploding | explosion | foreign key modulation | frantic | gang | mechanical | reformatory | running | sequence | teenager | tense | worker | yelling |
Crime School (1938) | Kids running down | 0:56:17 - Kids run down stairs | action scene | chromatic parallelism | down | dramatic | mickey-mousing | polychord | quartal chord | reformatory | running | stairs | teenager |
Crime School (1938) | Whistle | 0:56:27 - Close up of whistle | action scene | alarm | blowing | dramatic | mickey-mousing | reformatory | sounding | tone cluster | whistle |
Crime School (1938) | Running around | 0:56:37 - Boys run out of the building | action scene | chromatic parallelism | gang | linear chromaticism | mickey-mousing | reformatory | running | rushing | teenager | tense | worker |
Crime School (1938) | Fireman | 0:56:46 - Boiler room worker orders kids back | action scene | fanfare | gang | heroic | parallelism | pedal tone | protecting | reformatory | rushing | teenager | worker | yelling |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:56:50 - Mark goes to rescue Squirt | action scene | altered dominant | boiler room | chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | dramatic | hero | leading man | linear chromaticism | reformatory | rushing | saving | teenager | tense | underscoring |
Crime School (1938) | Going down | 0:57:05 - Mark descends into the boiler room | action scene | descending | dramatic | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | stairs | teenager | tense |
Crime School (1938) | Temperature rising 2 | 0:57:12 - The temperature gauge rises | action scene | altered dominant | boiler room | chromatic parallelism | danger | dramatic | gauge | heat | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | rising | teenager | temperature | tense |
Crime School (1938) | Explosion | 0:57:21 - Mark pulls Squirt out of the boiler room | action scene | ascending | boiler room | destruction | dissonant bass | dramatic | exploding | explosion | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | rising | stairs | teenager | tense | tone cluster |
Crime School (1938) | Mark Saves Boy | 0:57:29 - Mark carries Squirt up the stairs | action scene | ascending | authentic cadence | dissonant bass | hero | heroic | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | rising | stairs | teenager | walking |
Crime School (1938) | Sue (Hospital) | 0:57:38 - The doctor takes care of Squirt in the hospital | advance plot | calm | conversing | doctor | hero | hospital | leading man | nurse | peaceful | reformatory | teenager | treating |
Crime School (1938) | Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet | 0:59:13 - The boys sing in the shoe repair shop | advance plot | cheerful | gang | hammering | on-screen music | reformatory | singing | source music | teenager | worker | working |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:06:17 - Spike talks to Frankie about his sister | advance plot | anger | arguing | mysterious | pc set | reformatory | teenager | tense | underscoring |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:06:55 - Frankie hits Spike | advance plot | anger | arguing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic wedge | dramatic | reformatory | teenager | underscoring |
Crime School (1938) | Sue (Mysterious) | 1:07:09 - Spike talks to Frankie about his sister | advance plot | arguing | mysterious | reformatory | teenager | thinking | worrying |
Crime School (1938) | Sue (Troubled) | 1:07:37 - Frankie is troubled about his sister | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | conversing | gang | reformatory | teenager | thinking | troubled | worried |
Crime School (1938) | Sue (Prison Moods) | 1:08:48 - Boys talk to Frankie about his sister | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | dissonant | dissonant bass | distortion | gang | minor second | mysterious | plotting | reformatory | teenager | tense | tone cluster |
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 |
Crime School (1938) | Keys | 1:09:50 - Spike tosses keys on bed | advance plot | dropping | gang | keys | mickey-mousing | mysterious | pc set | reformatory | teenager | tense | tossing |
Crime School (1938) | Gun toss | 1:10:32 - Spike tosses gun on bed | advance plot | dropping | gang | gun | mickey-mousing | mysterious | pc set | reformatory | teenager | tense | tossing |
Crime School (1938) | Sue (Whispering) | 1:10:38 - Frankie hears voices | anxious | fragmentation | gun | hearing voices | insanity | mad scene | mental breakdown | ostinato | pc set | reformatory | sequence | sound mass | teenager | tone cluster | whispering | worrying |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:11:24 - Boys plot their escape | 9th chord | arguing | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | dramatic | escape | gang | plotting | reformatory | teenager | underscoring |
Crime School (1938) | Window opening | 1:11:57 - Boys open the window | diminished 7th chord | escape | escaping | gang | mickey-mousing | mysterious | opening | reformatory | teenager | up | window |
Crime School (1938) | The Escape | 1:12:03 - Boys escape | down | escape | escaping | gang | half-diminished 7th chord | jumping | mickey-mousing | mysterious | reformatory | sneaking | teenager | whole-tone chord |
Crime School (1938) | Jumping down | 1:12:03 - Boys jump out of the window | diminished 7th chord | down | escape | escaping | gang | half-diminished 7th chord | jumping | mickey-mousing | mysterious | reformatory | sneaking | teenager |
Crime School (1938) | Peeking | 1:12:11 - Cooper peeks out from the window | antagonist | authority | escape | mickey-mousing | mysterious | peeking | police | reformatory | whole-tone chord |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:12:21 - Cooper talks with the warden | chromatic parallelism | escape | half-diminished 7th chord | phone call | plotting | police | reformatory | telephone | tense | warden |
Crime School (1938) | Resolution | 1:22:31 - Sue enters the room | 42 chord | antagonist | calm | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | comical | conversing | hero | leading man | reformatory | resolution | resolution | tense | tritone |
