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click-track

In film music, a technique to aid the coordination of music and film action invented by the composers Carl Stalling and Scott Bradley. Holes punched in the soundtrack of a composer's working print click at a desired tempo measured in frames, allowing a composer to construct a musical phrase to climax at a precise moment in the film action.

A metronome tempo of 144 beats per minute, for example, is equivalent to one hole every ten frames of film. A feature of cartoon films from 1937, the click-track was also employed by the composer Max Steiner for feature romance films, in which context it is called ‘Mickey-Mousing’.



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