| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duke | 0:09:55 - Henriette tells the girls her story | establish place | flashback | gentle | leading lady | light | peaceful | school | storytelling | student | teacher |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duke (Ocean Waves) | 0:10:10 - Ocean waves | boat | establish place | flashback | gentle | leading lady | light | peaceful | storytelling | student | teacher | traveling |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Spring Time (Grazioso) | 1:26:48 - The Duke talks with the servants | advance plot | arriving | conversing | duke | gentle | governess | leading lady | leading man | light | room | servant |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Spring Time (Shimmery) | 1:35:12 - Henriette opens a gift | advance plot | cheerful | child | conversing | gift | governess | leading lady | light | opening | room |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Turning on light | 0:44:51 - The watchman turns on a light | augmented sixth chord | guard | lamp | light | light | mickey-mousing | mysterious | robbery | store | suspenseful | turning on |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Lighting the Torch + The Motor | 0:51:05 - Butch prepares the torch | anxious | chromatic scale | combination of themes | criminal | dramatic | fire | flame | gangster | hero | lighting | ostinato | preparing | rescuing | robbery | sequence | store | tense | thief | torch | working |
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Chasing | 0:16:31 - Elaine runs off | bride | groom | hurrying | leading lady | leading man | light | love | love scene | running | secondary dominant | street |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Turns light on | NIF - not in film | deleted scene | deleted scene | investigating | investigation | leading man | light | light switch | mickey-mousing | mysterious | private eye | room | searching | turning on |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Turns light on | NIF - not in film | deleted scene | deleted scene | investigating | investigation | leading man | light | light switch | mickey-mousing | mysterious | private eye | room | searching | turning on |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Turns light off | NIF - not in film | deleted scene | femme fatale | investigation | leading man | light | light switch | mysterious | private eye | room | tense | turning off |
| City for Conquest (1940) | Galop | 0:31:21 - Montage at an amusement park | amusement park | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | double exposure | excited | linear chromaticism | montage | neon light |
City for Conquest (1940) | Swinging | 0:31:32 - An amusement park ride | amusement park | excited | mickey-mousing | montage | neon light | swinging |
| Crime School (1938) | The Warden | 0:23:15 - Warden stands up to face the boys | antagonist | arguing | augmented triad | authority | chromatic parallelism | establish character | falling | gang | lightning | ominous | police | reformatory | slapping | stinger | teenager | warden | whole-tone chord |
Crime School (1938) | Lights on | 1:15:26 - Sue turns the lights on | conflict | hero | heroine | leading lady | leading man | light | mickey-mousing | room | tense | turning on |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Date picking | 0:25:21 - Boys picking dates | 9th chord | establish character | light | ranch | sequence | step modulation | teenager | working |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Arena | 1:01:22 - A fight poster | advance plot | augmented sixth chord | dark | detective | fanfare | leading man | light | polytonality | poster | street | thinking |
| Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Lamp | 0:07:45 - Gerry turns on the light | flashback | lamp | light | mickey-mousing | nighttime | turning on |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Lamp | 0:12:47 - Gerry turns on the light | flashback | lamp | light | mickey-mousing | nighttime | turning on |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Clementi C (Successful) | 1:23:04 - Clementi and Stephanie talk about her potential success on Broadway | candle | dinner | flashback | light |
| Deep Valley (1947) | Libby (Stormy) | 0:29:58 - Libby pulls away from Jeff's grasp | advance plot | boss | dark | leading lady | leading man | leaving | lightning | room | running | storm | thunder |
Deep Valley (1947) | Libby 3 | 0:30:31 - Libby watches the storm | advance plot | arriving | boss | hesitant | leading lady | leading man | leaving | lightning | room | storm | thunder | watching |
Deep Valley (1947) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:31:10 - Close-up on Libby | arguing | conflict | crying | dark | dramatic | father | leading lady | lightning | room | storm | tense | thunder | underscoring |
Deep Valley (1947) | Slap | 0:32:20 - Cliff slaps Libby | conflict | dramatic | father | leading lady | lightning | mickey-mousing | room | slapping | storm | thunder | violence |
Deep Valley (1947) | Earthquake | 0:32:21 - An earthquake shakes the house | conflict | dramatic | earthquake | father | leading lady | lightning | mother | room | rushing | shaking | storm | thunder |
Deep Valley (1947) | Libby (Dark) | 0:33:17 - Libby walks to her mother's room | conflict | conversing | dark | leading lady | lightning | mother | room | somber | storm | thunder | walking |
Deep Valley (1947) | Libby (Slowly) | 0:34:53 - Libby leaves her mother | conflict | dark | leading lady | leaving | lightning | mother | pleading | room | somber | storm | tense | thunder |
Deep Valley (1947) | Triste (Stormy) | 0:35:16 - Shutters shaking in the wind | conflict | dark | leading lady | leaving | lightning | mother | pleading | room | somber | storm | thunder |
| Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Lights match | 0:04:40 - Man lights a match on a lamp post | conflict | gangster | lighting | match | mickey-mousing | mysterious | street |
| The FBI Story (1959) | Symbol (The Signal) | 1:18:41 - Chip lights his cigar with a match as he watches Dillinger leave | agent | cigar | FBI | flashback | lighting |
| 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 |
| I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Turns on lights | 0:58:51 - Agent turns on the lights | communist | light | mickey-mousing | turning on |
| Illegal (1955) | Startled | 1:04:38 - Ray is startled by a noise and rushes to the door | head turning | lighter | mickey-mousing | nervous | startled |
| The Informer (1935) | Match strike | 0:05:03 - Man strikes a match on the lamp post | establish character | leading lady | lighting | match | mickey-mousing | playful | street |
| Key Largo (1948) | McCloud (Tenderly) | 1:39:12 - Nora tells her father the good news | father | hopeful | hoping | hotel | leading lady | light | opening | relieved | resolution | sunlight | thinking | window |
| The Letter (1940) | Leslie (Mysterioissimo) | 0:04:42 - A shadow appears | circle of fifths | common-chord modulation | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | home | leading lady | light | looking | murder scene | mysterious | oscillation | parallel fifths | servant | turning on |
| Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Transition | 0:00:07 - Starring list and lightning strikes | dramatic | lightning | lightning effect | opening title sequence | prison | self-borrowing | starring list | transition |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Lightning | 0:00:24 - Title card, cast list and prison | cast list | dramatic | lightning effect | opening title sequence | prison | self-borrowing | title of film | transition |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Blows out candle | 0:19:35 - Shelly blows out a candle | actor | blowing | candle | establish character | leading lady | light | mickey-mousing | mysterious | room | turning off |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Shelly and Trev | NIF - not in film | actor | blowing | candle | cut from film | establish character | leading lady | leading man | light | room | suspect | tense | turning off |
| The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Old Lavender | 1:00:07 - Joan and Ranny talk | 9th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | common-chord modulation | conversing | daughter | direct modulation | harmonic sequence | light | love interest | love scene | optimistic | proposal | proposing | room | transcribed by ear |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Old Lavender | 1:02:11 - Joan and Ranny enter | 9th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | arguing | common-chord modulation | conflict | conversing | daughter | direct modulation | harmonic sequence | leading man | light | love interest | optimistic | room | surprise | wife |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Old Lavender (Allegretto) | 1:04:31 - Ranny reacts to the revelation | chromatic mediant | conflict | conversing | daughter | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | leading man | light | love interest | mode mixture | optimistic | pedal tone | room | wife |
| Kid Galahad (1937) | City Fanfare | 0:32:24 - Bright lights of the city | advance plot | augmented triad | bold | city | light | not by Steiner | sign | street | transcribed by ear |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Lighting the House) | 0:23:40 - David lights candles in the house | advance plot | boy | candle | child | chromatic sequence | classical music | dissonant bass | familiar tune | father | Haydn | helping | hero | home | lighting | positive | quotation | working |
| The Woman in White (1948) | The Spring is Coming | 0:01:37 - A train station | cheerful | conversing | establish setting | folk music | leading man | light | train | train station | voice-over | waiting | worker |
The Woman in White (1948) | Laura | 0:55:43 - Sitting at the dining table | advance plot | antagonist | butler | cigarette | conversing | cousin | eating | happy | husband | leading lady | light | mansion | monkey | servant | smoking | somber |
The Woman in White (1948) | Fosco (Misterioso Slowly) | 1:04:48 - Count Fosco leaves the room | advance plot | antagonist | conversing | cousin | criminal | eavesdropping | father | husband | leading lady | leading man | lightning | mysterious | room | sneaking | storm | tense |
The Woman in White (1948) | Asylum + Ann | 1:24:50 - Close-up on Count Fosco | antagonist | asylum | combination of themes | criminal | dark | husband | hypnosis | hypnotist | hypnotizing | leading lady | leading man | lighting change | mad scene | murderer | mysterious | thematic transference | victim |
| Sing and Like It (1934) | King Kong March | 0:58:31 - Annie's name in lights | 9th chord | 11th chord | 13th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | arriving | binary form | boss | common-tone diminished 7th | critic | crowd | dressing room | fanfare | fanfare | gangster | leading lady | lobby | mode mixture | neon lights | parallelism | self-borrowing | singer | street | theater | worker |
| 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 |
| We're Only Human (1935) | Old Lavender | 0:22:44 - Packaged-up food | 9th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | altered dominant | buying | common-chord modulation | detective | direct modulation | food | harmonic sequence | leading lady | leading man | light | love interest | optimistic | ordering | reporter | store | worker | working |
| Without Honor (1949) | Dog | 0:01:55 - A dog running | car | dog | driving | establish setting | leading man | light | orchard | playful | running | street |
Without Honor (1949) | Tempo di Gavotte | 0:02:09 - A car coming to a stop | car | driving | establish setting | leading man | light | playful | stopping | street |
Without Honor (1949) | Dog | 0:05:12 - Jane finds the dog | adulterer | affair | conversing | dog | establish character | leading lady | leading man | light | love interest | mysterious | playful | room |
Without Honor (1949) | Tempo di Gavotte | 0:05:30 - Jane talks with Dennis | adulterer | affair | conversing | establish character | leading lady | leading man | light | love interest | playful | room |
Without Honor (1949) | Girl Scouts | 0:15:50 - Girl scouts at the door | advance plot | child | conversing | leading lady | light | room | scout |
Without Honor (1949) | Girl Scouts (Extended) | 0:17:22 - The girl scouts leave | advance plot | child | leading lady | light | reacting | room | scout | thinking | underscoring | walking |
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