Film Language Tag: Mickey-Mousing
Close synchronization within a shot or short series of shots, where music closely mimics a screen action, cartoon style, blurring the boundary between music and sound effects. [See also sweetening]
Assassination of Lincoln, The Birth of a Nation
President Lincoln is shot and killed at the theatre, in the presence of the Stonemans.
Bank Robbery, The Bell Boy
Fatty discovers a bellboy (Buster Keaton) and the hotel clerk brawling with robbers at a bank.
Bombing The Train, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Robert bombs an incoming train carrying supplies for Franco's army.
Christmas Experiments, The Nightmare Before Christmas
Jack Skellington (Chris Sarandon) performs tests on Christmas-related items. Sally (Catherine O'Hara) escapes from the lab.
Cleaning the Lobby, The Bell Boy
After having talked with Cutie Cuticle, the two bell boys (Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle & Buster Keaton) go pack to work shaving and cleaning the hotel lobby.
Closing Sequence, Minority Report
Burgess decide whether to spare Anderton or to kill him, with his freedom or his life’s work hanging in the balance.
Halloween Town Hall Meeting, The Nightmare Before Christmas
Jack Skellington (Chris Sarandon, Danny Elfman [singing]) regales the citizens of Halloween Town with his experience of Christmas Town.
Welcome to Bricksburg, The Lego Movie
Emmet (Chris Pratt) wakes up and follows his instructions to have another wonderful day in Bricksburg.
