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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)


Home > Film: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse > Theme: The Amazing Doctor + The Motor > Instance: 0:50:22




Instance
Theme names: The Amazing Doctor + The Motor
Start time: 0:50:22
End time: 0:50:33
Total duration: 0:00:11
Page #: 38
Measure #: 39
Scene: Reel 5 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 152
Marking: Agitato
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Butch runs downstairs
Description: A statement of the Amazing Doctor, combined with the motor theme and a descending gesture for Butch going down the stairs
Music annotations: [m. 39] sharp mutes?? or something screwy / arco; [m. 40] cresc [m. 42] sffz
Film annotations: [m. 39] Butch going down stairs; [m. 40] Professor etc.; [m. 41] Professor; [m. 42] No motor / Dissolve to boys loading trucks
Orchestration annotations: [m. 39] 2 trpts; [m. 42] gong / 3 trbs / timp / tuba, basses, celli, basses, piano tremolo; [m. 43] timp roll continued
Analysis: This uses "Form B" of the Amazing Doctor theme; a descending chromatic scale is added to the ostinato texture
Tags

anxious | chromatic scale | combination of themes | criminal | double-cross | down | downstairs | dramatic | gangster | mickey-mousing | motor | ostinato | robbery | store | tense | thief | walking

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