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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)

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Instance
Gesture name: Walking
Start time: 0:44:39
End time: 0:44:51
Total duration: 0:00:12
Page #: 12
Measure #: 11
Scene: Reel 5 Part 2
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 108
Instrumentation: strings
Solo Instrument: celeste
Description
On-screen: The watchman walks
Description: Wedge-like gesture in brass as the watchman enters the room; celeste and string accents as he walks through the dark room
Music annotations: [m. 11] pp / sf-p
Film annotations: [m. 11] And walks
Orchestration annotations: [m. 11] cel, harp, piano (pedal down)
Analysis: Half-diminished pizzicato arpeggiations over a sustained augmented sixth sonority
Tags

augmented sixth chord | darkness | flashlight | guard | half-diminished 7th chord | mickey-mousing | mysterious | robbery | store | suspenseful | walking | working

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