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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)

Home > Film: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse > Theme: Lighting the Torch + The Motor > Instance: 0:51:05



Instance
Theme names: Lighting the Torch + The Motor
Start time: 0:51:05
End time: 0:51:12
Total duration: 0:00:07
Page #: 42
Measure #: 65
Scene: Reel 5 Part 3
Key: unstable
Meter: 12/8
Tempo (bpm): 152
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Butch prepares the torch
Description: Repeated upward triplet gestures as Butch starts the torch to rescue the Doctor; this is combined with the rhythms of the motor (not as audible now)
Music annotations: [m. 65] sempre cresc; [m. 67] mp / ff; [m. 69] gliss / tutti
Film annotations: [m. 65] Dr. knocking; [m. 67] Torch lights
Orchestration annotations: [m. 65] horns or something; [m. 67] fl, piccolo etc / gong / harp gliss / T.C.; [m. 69] muted brass / T.C. with stick (roll)
Tags

anxious | chromatic scale | combination of themes | criminal | dramatic | fire | flame | gangster | hero | lighting | ostinato | preparing | rescuing | robbery | sequence | store | tense | thief | torch | working

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