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The Informer (1935)


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Instance
Theme names: Blood Money + The Informer
Start time: 1:15:40
End time: 1:16:00
Total duration: 0:00:20
Page #: 82
Measure #: 10
Scene: Reel 8 Part II
Key: WT2 + unstable
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 96
Instrumentation: strings
Solo Instrument: celeste
Description
On-screen: Dan asks "Who was the informer?"
Description: The Blood Money motif is played in high to low registers over the obsessive ostinato effect; Gypo's "The Informer" theme is then layered on top as Dan asks who the informer is
Music annotations: [m. 10] cresc / sempre cresc
Film annotations: [m. 11] Where did you get that 20 pounds??
Orchestration annotations: [m. 10] celeste / harp / strings / W.W. / timp continue; [m. 11] cello pizz (answer)
Analysis: Both the Informer theme and the Blood Money motif fit into a F whole-tone scale here, so they mesh well together in this cue; the Blood Money motif is inverted here, first arpeggiating an augmented triad, then a tritone
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antagonist | axis of symmetry | combination of themes | courtroom | courtroom scene | headquarters | interrogating | interrogation | inversion | leading man | mirroring | money | mysterious | questioning | room | suspect | whole-tone

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