The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Motor (Butch) | 0:50:45 - Butch searches for the doctor | anxious | criminal | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | motor | robbery | running | searching | store | tense | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Butch runs | 0:50:46 - Butch runs to the window | anxious | criminal | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | robbery | running | searching | store | tense | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Butch runs back | 0:50:52 - Butch runs back from the window | anxious | criminal | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | robbery | running | searching | store | tense | thief |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Search | 0:24:09 - Marlowe searches for clues | hero | searching |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Risoluto) | 0:24:39 - Marlowe searches for clues | hero | searching |
Crime School (1938) | The Warden (Risoluto) | 0:29:03 - Warden looks for Frankie | dramatic | escape | looking | reformatory | searching | tense | warden |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer | 0:00:14 - Shadows moving across the screen behind the cast list | cast list | Dorian mode | folk-like | informer | main theme | marching | minor pentatonic | mysterious | opening title sequence | Scotch snap | searching | serious | shadow | soldier | street | title of film |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Bridge) | 0:00:46 - Shadows moving across the screen behind the cast list | 9th chord | cast list | informer | main theme | march | marching | mysterious | Neapolitan | opening title sequence | Scotch snap | searching | serious | shadow | soldier | street |
The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Dublin) | 0:01:03 - Title card establishing the setting in Dublin, Ireland | 9th chord | 11th chord | establish setting | informer | main theme | marching | minor pentatonic | mysterious | nun | opening title sequence | religious symbolism | searching | serious | shadow | street | title card | tritone substitution |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly (Running) | 0:39:58 - Shelly looks for Trev then walks off with Liza | agitated | heroine | searching | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:08:53 - Wally looks for Mildred | action scene | ascending | down | dramatic | falling | friend | hurrying | knocking | mickey-mousing | room | searching | setup | suspenseful | underscoring | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Opens coat | 0:11:12 - Policeman opens Wally's coat to frisk him | action scene | beach | dramatic | friend | mickey-mousing | opening | police | searching | victim |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:11:13 - Policemen investigate the scene | action scene | beach | conversing | friend | mysterious | police | searching | tense | underscoring | victim |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Desperate) | 0:34:05 - Mildred looks for a job | applying | depressed | heroine | leading lady | montage scene | searching | street | voice-over | walking |
White Heat (1949) | Mysterioso | 0:17:09 - Cody rushes to the motel | mysterious | rushing | searching |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Sailing of the Olympic | 0:15:16 - William on the deck of a busy ship | AB structure | advance plot | boat | bustling | chromatic sequence | crowd | hurried | leading man | metric dissonance | parallelism | searching | transcribed by ear |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Strolling the Deck (Argument) | 0:16:14 - Camera moves from one window to another | advance plot | boat | cheerful | eavesdropping | fragmentation | leading man | parallelism | searching | transcribed by ear |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Strolling the Deck | 0:16:29 - Camera moves from one window to another | advance plot | boat | cheerful | common-tone diminished 7th | eavesdropping | leading man | mode mixture | searching | transcribed by ear |