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The Informer (1935)


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Instance
Theme names: Blood Money + Blind Man
Start time: 0:20:27
End time: 0:20:46
Total duration: 0:00:19
Page #: 28
Measure #: 24
Scene: Reel 3 Part 1
Key: c / WT1 (Ab) - chromatic / WT2 (A)
Meter: 4/4
Tempo (bpm): 89
Instrumentation: orchestra
Description
On-screen: Gypo looks at Frankie's poster again
Description: The blood money motif is combined with melodic gestures from the preceding Blind Man theme
Music annotations: [m. 24] mp; [m. 26] poco cresc; [m. 27] add a little; [m. 29] morendo; [m. 30] pp
Film annotations: [m. 24] Vision on billboard starts (the blind man continues walking)
Orchestration annotations: [m. 24] basses, celli, tuba
Analysis: The whole-tone context of the blood money motif is in conflict here with the diatonic Blind Man theme
Tags

advance plot | antagonist | combination of themes | leading man | looking | mysterious | poster | street | tense | whole-tone

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