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Crime School (1938)


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Instance
Theme name: The Whip
Start time: 0:30:15
End time: 0:30:26
Total duration: 0:00:11
Page #: 36
Measure #: 77
Scene: Reel 3 (Part 5)
Key: unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 140
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: The warden uses his whip
Description: Trills and ascending gestures create tension as violence occurs (off-screen)
Music annotations: [m. 77] cresc / Ultra "screwy" (but - good! - (timp + gong roll)) starting pp and working up to a colossal diminuendo!!! / pp subito / fff; [m. 78] sempre cresc; [m. 79] marcato; [m. 81] tr; [m. 82] tr; [m. 83] tr / gliss; [m. 84] whiplash! / sffz / basses for bars 82, 83, 84 [3 measures of music written in]
Film annotations: [m. 77] Whip pans in; [m. 78] Picks it up; [m. 79] Don't whip me etc (scream) C.U.; [m. 81] Don't whip me / No!; [m. 82] No!; [m. 84] Out / Fade
Orchestration annotations: ['m. 77] strong bass; [m. 79] organ
Tags

begging | dramatic | escape | fear | reformatory | teenager | tense | warden | whip | whipping

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