Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Whole Tone) | 0:21:11 - A view of the city | dreaming | leading man | montage | pedal tone | room | somber | whole-tone scale |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams + Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Allegro) | NIF - not in film | cut from film | mysterious | octatonic | somber | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Allegro) | 1:15:33 - Newspaper headlines | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | double exposure | dramatic | fanfare | frantic | headline | montage | mother | newspaper | ostinato | spinning | tense | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Happy Land (Lento) | 0:12:31 - The aunts talk | advance plot | aunt | brother | conversing | crazy person | familiar tune | foreign key modulation | gentle | leading lady | mysterious | plotting | room | sequence | tender | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Blows out match | 0:56:48 - Einstein blows out the match | advance plot | blowing | brother | crazy person | darkness | doctor | extinguishing | leading man | match | mickey-mousing | murderer | room | tense | whole-tone scale |
His Greatest Gamble (1934) | The Chase 1 | 0:29:26 - Philip escapes from prison | augmented triad | dark | escaping | frantic | leading man | montage | montage | prisoner | sequence | train | transcribed by ear | traveling | whole-tone scale |
Crime School (1938) | Underscoring (Mysterious) | 0:09:53 - Frankie sneaks in the house | concern | conversing | dissonant bass | establish character | heroine | leading lady | mysterious | pedal tone | room | sister | sneaking | sneaky | teenager | underscoring | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
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) | Window closing | 0:30:05 - Boys close their window | chromatic parallelism | closing | escape | gang | mickey-mousing | reformatory | somber | teenager | whole-tone scale | window |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Fight) | 0:25:41 - Charlie and Joe fight | 42 chord | barn | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic wedge | conflict | dramatic | fighting | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | mickey-mousing | octatonic scale | punching | villain | warden | whole-tone scale |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Flamingo Road (Tense) + Titus | 1:04:16 - Titus enters the room | advance plot | combination of themes | conversing | leading lady | leading man | politician | room | self-borrowing | sheriff | tense | whole-tone scale |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Throwing whiskey and glass | 1:12:08 - Titus throws whiskey in Field's face | alcohol | breaking | bullying | conflict | dramatic | glass | leading man | mickey-mousing | politician | room | sheriff | slamming | splashing | throwing | tone cluster | whole-tone scale |
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 |