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 |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Turning on light | 0:44:51 - The watchman turns on a light | augmented sixth chord | guard | lamp | light | light | mickey-mousing | mysterious | robbery | store | suspenseful | turning on |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Night Watchman (Light and Shadow) | 0:44:51 - The watchman goes about his work | augmented sixth chord | criminal | flashlight | gangster | guard | mysterious | robbery | shadow | store | suspenseful | walking | working |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Shadow punch | 0:45:00 - Watchman is punched by a shadowy figure | attacking | augmented sixth chord | crime | criminal | dramatic | fighting | gangster | guard | punching | robbery | shadow | store | violence | whole-tone |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Night Watchman (Knocked Out) | 0:45:04 - Watchman knocked out on the floor | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | crime | criminal | diminished 7th chord | gangster | guard | mysterious | robbery | stealing | store | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Sneaking | 0:45:13 - Criminals steal furs | ascending | carrying | chromatic parallelism | crime | criminal | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | gangster | pedal tone | robbery | sneaking | sneaky | stairs | stealing | store | thief | walking |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Spiraling down | 0:47:38 - Doctor goes down the stairs | 9th chord | criminal | descending | diminished 7th chord | doctor | gangster | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | robbery | spiraling | store | tense | thief | walking |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:47:48 - Rocks opens the safe | breaking in | criminal | diminished 7th chord | doctor | dramatic | enharmonic modulation | gangster | leading man | lock | opening | robbery | safe | safe-cracking | stinger | store | tense | thief | underscoring | unlocking | vault | wedge |
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) | The Amazing Doctor (Giving Orders) | 0:48:32 - Doctor gives orders to the criminals | 64 chord | anger | annoyance | chromatic parallelism | commanding | criminal | doctor | fragmentation | gangster | leading man | ordering | pedal tone | robbery | sequence | store | tense | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Rocks (Double Cross) | 0:48:56 - Rocks thinks of a double-cross | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | criminal | diminished 7th chord | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | leading man | murderer | murdering | plotting | robbery | sinister | store | thief | trapping |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Locked in vault | 0:49:06 - Dr. Clitterhouse locked in safe | anxious | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | criminal | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | leading man | murderer | murdering | panicking | polychord | pounding | robbery | safe | store | tense | thief | trapping | vault | yelling |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Motor | 0:49:21 - Rocks starts the refrigeration motor | antagonist | anxious | criminal | diminished 7th chord | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | gauge | leading man | lowering | machine | mickey-mousing | motor | murderer | murdering | ostinato | panicking | pedal tone | pounding | robbery | spinning | store | temperature | tense | thief | trapping | whirling | yelling |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor + The Motor | 0:49:36 - Dr. Clitterhouse in safe | anxious | combination of themes | criminal | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | gauge | leading man | machine | motor | murderer | murdering | ostinato | panicking | pedal tone | robbery | spinning | store | tense | thief | trapping | whirling |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Motor (Getting Colder) | 0:49:43 - The vault gets colder | anxious | chromatic scale | criminal | dissonant bass | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | gauge | leading man | lowering | machine | motor | murderer | murdering | ostinato | panicking | pedal tone | pounding | robbery | spinning | store | temperature | tense | thief | trapping | whirling | yelling |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Rocks goes downstairs | 0:50:05 - Rocks goes down the stairs | antagonist | anxious | criminal | descending | diminished 7th chord | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | murderer | robbery | stairs | store | temperature | tense | thief | walking |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor + The Motor | 0:50:11 - Butch comes back | anxious | combination of themes | criminal | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | hurrying | leading man | motor | murderer | ostinato | robbery | store | temperature | tense | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Rocks (Sneaking) + The Motor | 0:50:14 - Rocks sneaks around in the dark | antagonist | anxious | combination of themes | criminal | diminished 7th chord | doctor | double-cross | dramatic | gangster | leading man | motor | murderer | ostinato | robbery | sneaking | store | temperature | tense | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor + The Motor | 0:50:22 - Butch runs downstairs | anxious | chromatic scale | combination of themes | criminal | double-cross | down | downstairs | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | motor | ostinato | robbery | store | tense | thief | walking |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Butch goes downstairs | 0:50:22 - Butch runs downstairs | anxious | chromatic scale | combination of themes | criminal | double-cross | down | downstairs | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | robbery | store | tense | thief | walking |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Motor (Butch) | 0:50:45 - Butch searches for the doctor | anxious | chromatic scale | criminal | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | motor | ostinato | pedal tone | 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 | sequence | store | tense | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Butch runs back | 0:50:52 - Butch runs back from the window | anxious | chromatic scale | criminal | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | robbery | running | searching | store | tense | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor (Brass) + The Motor | 0:51:00 - Dr. Clitterhouse in the safe | anxious | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | combination of themes | criminal | dramatic | gangster | knocking | motor | ostinato | panicking | robbery | store | tense | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Lighting the Torch + The Motor | 0:51:05 - Butch prepares the torch | anxious | chromatic scale | combination of themes | criminal | dramatic | fire | flame | gangster | hero | lighting | ostinato | preparing | rescuing | robbery | sequence | store | tense | thief | torch | working |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Torch (Burning) | 0:51:12 - Butch opens safe with welder's torch | anxious | burning | chromatic parallelism | criminal | dramatic | fire | flame | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | hero | rescuing | robbery | sparks | store | tense | thief | torch |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Torch | 0:51:17 - Torch breaks through the safe door | anxious | burning | criminal | cutting | dramatic | fire | flame | gangster | hero | pc set | rescuing | robbery | sparks | store | tense | thief | torch |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Camera panning | 0:51:39 - Camera pans to the watchman | anxious | dramatic | guard | mickey-mousing | panning shot | robbery | store | tense | waking |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Torch + The Motor (Watchman Crawling) | 0:51:41 - Watchman struggles to sound the alarm | alarm | anxious | chromatic scale | crawling | dramatic | guard | mickey-mousing | motor | ostinato | pc set | robbery | store | struggle | tense |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Torch (Off) + The Motor | 0:52:24 - Butch finishes opening safe | anxious | burning | combination of themes | criminal | cutting | dissonant bass | dramatic | fire | flame | gangster | hero | motor | ostinato | pc set | rescuing | robbery | sparks | store | tense | thief | torch | turning off |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Motor (Rescue) | 0:52:29 - Dr. Clitterhouse escapes from safe | anxious | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | criminal | dramatic | escaping | gangster | hero | motor | ostinato | rescuing | robbery | store | tense | thief |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Trev (Appassionato) | 0:38:59 - Trev enters the store and everyone notices him | combination of themes | hero | romance | store |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Trev + Shelly | 0:39:51 - Shelly watches as Trev leaves the store | combination of themes | hero | heroine | store |
Out of the Fog (1941) | Trade Winds | 0:28:40 - Stella enters a drugstore | advance plot | child | conversing | criminal | leading lady | leading man | popular music | shopping | source music | store | upbeat | worker |
Don’t Turn ‘em Loose (1936) | Suicide Transition | 0:26:55 - Bob sits | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | gangster | guard | gun | gunshot | imposter | leading man | mysterious | parallelism | plotting | preparing | reading | robbery | room | sequence | shooting | store | transcribed by ear | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
Don’t Turn ‘em Loose (1936) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:28:05 - Bob shoots guard | breaking | death | dramatic | gangster | guard | gun | gunshot | imposter | leading man | murder | robbery | robbery | shooting | stealing | store | transcribed by ear | whole-tone chord |
We're Only Human (1935) | Old Lavender (Gentle) | 0:22:34 - A man scoops up some pasta | 64 chord | advance plot | altered dominant | buying | detective | food | leading lady | leading man | love interest | ordering | peaceful | pedal tone | reporter | store | worker | working |
We're Only Human (1935) | Old Lavender | 0:22:44 - Packaged-up food | 9th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | altered dominant | buying | common-chord modulation | detective | direct modulation | food | harmonic sequence | leading lady | leading man | light | love interest | optimistic | ordering | reporter | store | worker | working |
We're Only Human (1935) | Old Lavender (Celeste Solo) | 0:23:14 - Pete and Sally buying food | advance plot | buying | detective | direct modulation | food | leading lady | leading man | love interest | ordering | peaceful | reporter | store | street | worker | working |