| Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (On the Run) | 1:17:21 - Rosa approaches a bus | advance plot | bus | disguise | doctor | leading lady | leading man | murderer | mysterious | office | patient | runaway | running away | sneaking | street | watching |
| City for Conquest (1940) | Train | 0:01:09 - An elevated train approaches | added-note chord | bridge | busy | city | hurried | mickey-mousing | old man | ostinato | police | pump-up modulation | train | transition | traveling |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem B + Train | 0:01:19 - Sign for the Williamsburg Bridge | 9th chord | added-note chord | bridge | busy | chromatic parallelism | city | combination of themes | countermelody | hurried | Mixolydian mode | old man | police | train | transition | traveling |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Boldon City | 0:01:13 - Boldon City sign | busy | common-tone diminished 7th | dominant pedal | establish setting | light | pentatonic | street | townsfolk | voice-over | working |
| Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Hell on Frisco Bay (Somber) | 0:02:29 - Steve talks to Marcia | bus | conductor score | conversing | departing | detective | establish character | friend | leading man | reacting | somber | street | underscoring |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Hell on Frisco Bay (Waking Up) | 1:28:48 - Marcia wakes up and answers the door | bussing | doorbell | gentle | leading lady | matched source pitch | room | turning point | waking | wife |
| I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Communist (Pittsburgh) | 0:03:38 - Aerial view of Pittsburgh | augmented triad | bridge | busy | chromatic parallelism | city | establish setting | factory | frantic | machinery effect | oscillation | ostinato | panning shot | sequential modulation | tense | tone cluster | train | voice-over | whistle |
| Illegal (1955) | The Bus | 0:46:09 - Man runs to catch bus and is shot | bus | gun | gunshot | murder | traveling |
| Key Largo (1948) | The Keys | 0:01:07 - On-screen text establishing the Florida keys | bus | car | establish place | establish setting | on-screen text | peaceful | street | traveling |
Key Largo (1948) | The Bus | 0:01:26 - The bus is pulled over | agitated | bus | car | establish setting | police | street | tense | traveling |
Key Largo (1948) | Bus Stops | 0:01:42 - The bus stops | bus | car | establish setting | police | stopping | street | tense |
Key Largo (1948) | Traveling | 0:02:21 - The bus drives on | bus | establish setting | exciting | starting | street | traveling |
Key Largo (1948) | Largo Hotel | 0:02:34 - Frank arrives at the Largo hotel | bus | establish setting | hotel | mode change | peaceful | stopping | tense |
| Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Menace (Expressivo) | 0:03:24 - Newspaper editor on the phone | 9th chord | bus | conversing | dissonant bass | headline | newspaper | newspaper editor | office | telephone | transition | uneasy | worker |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | T'Ain't No Good | 0:57:37 - Mildred at the opening of her restaurant | advance plot | antagonist | busy | conversing | daughter | dining | friend | guest | heroine | leading lady | popular music | restaurant | serving | source music | upbeat | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | While You're Away | 0:59:47 - Monte arrives at the restaurant | ABAC structure | advance plot | antagonist | busy | conversing | daughter | dining | friend | guest | heroine | leading lady | love interest | parallel double period | popular music | restaurant | serving | source music | upbeat | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Work (Success) | 1:01:42 - People work in Mildred's restaurant | 9th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | busy | cook | foreign key modulation | restaurant | secondary dominant | self-borrowing | server | upbeat | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Order wheel spins | 1:01:45 - Restaurant order wheel spins | advance plot | busy | cook | mickey-mousing | restaurant | server | spinning | upbeat |
| The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Oh! You Beautiful Doll | 0:17:47 - People in a bar | advance plot | bar | business man | conversing | mode mixture | ragtime | source music | upbeat |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Ida (Sweet As Apple Cider) | 0:28:55 - People in a bar | advance plot | bar | business man | conversing | parallel double period | ragtime | source music | upbeat |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Darktown Strutters' Ball | 0:40:06 - Sadie and Mike in a bar | advance plot | business man | club | common-chord modulation | conversing | friend | love interest | plotting | ragtime | source music | upbeat |
| Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | There's a Sob in My Heart | 0:05:14 - People dancing in a night club | AABA structure | business man | cheerful | club | conversing | dance scene | dancing | dining | reused recording | upbeat |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | Jingle Bells | 0:07:51 - Spider sings | advance plot | bothering | business man | comic | comical | goofing around | on-screen music | room | salesman | singing | source music |
| Is My Face Red? (1932) | Sailing of the Olympic | 0:15:16 - William on the deck of a busy ship | AB structure | advance plot | boat | bustling | chromatic sequence | crowd | hurried | leading man | metric dissonance | parallelism | searching | transcribed by ear |
| Headline Shooter (1933) | Ensemble Tuning | 0:04:41 - Bill talks to business man | business man | calm | conversing | establish character | leading man | pageant | source music | tuning |
| Star of Midnight (1935) | Rushing | 0:54:02 - Clay rushes to catch the bus | bus | detective | hurried | leading man | montage | parallelism | rushing | street | transcribed by ear |
Star of Midnight (1935) | Midnight in Manhattan (Montage) | 0:54:11 - Feet walking | bus | chromatic parallelism | fragmentation | hurried | montage | pedal tone | street | transcribed by ear | traveling | walking |
Star of Midnight (1935) | Sidewalks of New York | 0:54:28 - Feet walking | bus | calm | chromatic parallelism | foreign key modulation | lighthearted | montage | street | transcribed by ear | traveling | walking |
Star of Midnight (1935) | Midnight in Manhattan (Accelerando) | 0:54:42 - Feet walking | added-note chord | bus | chromatic parallelism | hurried | mickey-mousing | mode mixture | montage | street | transcribed by ear | traveling | walking |
| Without Honor (1949) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:38:12 - Jane gets sprayed by a hose | action scene | bus | conversing | leading lady | neighbor | street | tense | underscoring |
Without Honor (1949) | Chasing bus | 0:38:22 - Jane runs after the bus | action scene | bus | chasing | dramatic | falling | leading lady | mickey-mousing | running | street |
Without Honor (1949) | Appassionato 2 (Dramatic) | 0:38:33 - Jane tries to catch the bus | action scene | bus | chasing | dramatic | leading lady | street | waving |
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