| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Gossip | 0:55:36 - Scissors cut a newspaper clipping | advance plot | cutting | gossiper | gossiping | harsh | newspaper | room | scissors | tense |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duchess (Broadly) | 0:55:55 - A newspaper clipping | advance plot | distressed | gossiper | newspaper | reading | romantic | room |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Mysterioso) | 0:56:02 - A newspaper clipping | advance plot | gossiper | gossiping | mysterious | newspaper | room | tense |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duchess (Tutti) | 1:42:34 - Newspaper headline | bold | double exposure | headline | montage | newspaper | on-screen text | romantic | street |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Agitato 2 | 1:59:31 - Henriette is arrested | agitated | crowd | crying | double exposure | dramatic | fanfare | headline | leading lady | leaving | mob | montage | newspaper | soldier | street | suspect | yelling |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Molto Moderato) | 1:04:10 - Women in prison | double exposure | headline | leading lady | montage | newspaper | pacing | prison | prisoner | solemn | suspect | walking |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor (Montage) | 0:33:03 - A news article about the doctor | chromatic parallelism | dissonant bass | Gershwinesque | jaunty | journal | montage | montage | newspaper | sequence | sign |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Amazing Doctor (Murder) | 1:10:49 - Montage of newspaper headlines | chromatic parallelism | corpse | dark | dissonant bass | fingerprints | headlines | investigating | montage | morgue | mortician | murder | newspaper | police | printing press | tense | triadic transformation |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Printing Press + Cauldron 1 | 1:21:08 - Newspaper presses rolling | combination of themes | common-tone diminished 7th | headlines | layering | montage | newspaper | obsessive | ostinato | printing press | step modulation |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Gangster (Fingerprints) | 0:06:17 - Montage of juvenile detention and prison life | digging | dramatic | establish character | fingerprints | foreign key modulation | headline | leading man | main title | marching | montage | mug shot | newspaper | prison | prisoner | reformatory | sequence | serious | working |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Running and shooting | 0:06:52 - Police chase gangsters and Rocky shoots | agent | augmented triad | chasing | dissonant bass | dominant 7th chord | dramatic | establish character | gangster | gun | gunshot | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | newspaper | quartal chord | running | shooting | street | zoom out |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Gangster (Headlines) | 0:07:21 - Newspaper headline | dark | establish character | headline | main title | montage | mysterious | newspaper | octatonic scale | pedal tone | street |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | I’ve Got a Heartfelt of Music | 0:08:31 - People in the street | ABAC structure | cheerful | crowd | driving | headline | newspaper | radio | source music | street | transition | walking |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:09:49 - Jerry talks to newspaper editor | conversing | diminution | leading man | montage | montage | newspaper editor | newspaper office | parallelism | priest | sign | tense |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Newspaper Editor | 1:10:09 - A newspaper editor accepts Jerry's story | accepting | conversing | heroic | leading man | montage | montage | newspaper editor | newspaper office | priest | secondary dominant |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Headlines | 1:10:28 - A montage of newspaper headlines | 9th chord | 42 chord | 64 chord | dramatic | foreign key modulation | headline | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | newspaper | newspaper editor | newspaper office | spinning | zooming |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Hurrying | 1:10:54 - A newspaper editor gives orders to his men | assigning | chromatic scale | commanding | dissonant bass | hurried | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | newspaper editor | newspaper office |
| Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Newspaper Montage) | 0:45:04 - Newspaper headlines | augmentation | comforting | common-chord modulation | crying | double exposure | grandmother | headline | love interest | mickey-mousing | montage | newspaper | room | somber | spinning |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Risoluto) | 0:48:55 - Newspaper headlines | double exposure | fragmentation | headline | montage | mysterious | newspaper | sequential modulation | spinning | tense | thematic transformation |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Risoluto 2) | 0:53:55 - Newspaper headlines | advance plot | arresting | dark | detective | double exposure | fragmentation | friend | headline | leading man | love interest | murderer | newspaper | ominous | room | sequential modulation | spinning | thematic transformation | underscoring |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Allegro) | 1:15:33 - Newspaper headlines | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | double exposure | dramatic | fanfare | frantic | headline | montage | mother | newspaper | ostinato | spinning | tense | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams (Minor) + Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Minor) | 1:15:51 - Newspaper headlines | combination of themes | conversing | double exposure | headline | minor-major 7th chord | montage | newspaper | police | preaching | priest | source to score | spinning | tense |
| City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A1 (Headlines) | 0:38:25 - Sports news headlines | bold | fanfare | headline | montage | newspaper |
City for Conquest (1940) | Interlude | 0:39:06 - Montage of dancing scenes | dance band | dancing | double exposure | headline | montage | newspaper | shadow | stage | upbeat |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A1 (Resolution) | 0:39:10 - Montage of boxing scenes | boxing ring | double exposure | headline | montage | newspaper | resolution | triumphant |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem D (Dolce) | 1:28:33 - Gladys talks to Peggy | advance plot | comforting | conversing | crying | friend | gentle | leading lady | newspaper | room | sweet |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A1 (Maestoso) | 1:29:11 - Peggy looks up | advance plot | friend | hopeful | leading lady | newspaper | reading | room |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Printing Press | 0:14:10 - A printing press | 64 chord | dark | dissonant bass | fanfare | headline | heroic | mode change | montage | montage | motoric | newspaper | oscillation | printing press |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Street | 0:14:31 - Newspaper boy on street | 64 chord | chromatic sequence | dark | newspaper | newspaper boy | selling | street | tense | transition |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Bicycle | 0:14:42 - Newspaper boy on bicycle | 9th chord | 13th chord | bicycle | cheerful | mickey-mousing | newspaper | newspaper boy | riding | street | throwing | transition |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Reading | 0:15:29 - Johnnie reads a newspaper | advance plot | chromatic scale | dissonant bass | leading man | newspaper | reading | room | tense | whole-tone chord |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 0:16:01 - Johnnie rushes inside | advance plot | chromatic scale | dramatic | leading man | minor-major 7th chord | newspaper | room | rushing | underscoring |
| Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Clementi C (Celebratory) | 0:53:17 - Worker informs Clementi that they struck oil | fanfare | flashback | joyful | newspaper | triumphant |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Stephanie (Broadway) | 1:07:30 - Newspaper headline about a new Broadway show | Broadway | flashback | newspaper |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Clementi A (Headline) | 1:26:19 - Newspaper headline about Stephanie's replacement | flashback | newspaper |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Clementi A (Guitar) | 1:37:32 - Newpaper headline about Clementi arriving in Chicago | flashback | newspaper | Spanish guitar rhythms |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Clementi A (Grim) | 1:40:29 - Newspaper headline showing that Clementi was arrested for murder | flashback | newspaper |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Clementi A (Bleak) | 1:42:38 - Newpaper headline implicates Clementi in an embezzlement scheme | flashback | newspaper |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | The Daily Journal | 1:00:10 - Sign for The Daily Journal | establish setting | fanfare | heroic | mode mixture | Neapolitan | newspaper | sign | street | triumphant |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Buzzing | 1:01:05 - Men working in the dark room | 64 chord | action scene | added-note chord | buzzy | chromatic parallelism | dark room | enharmonic modulation | exciting | foreign key modulation | leading man | mode mixture | Neapolitan | newspaper | newspaper editor | parallelism | photographer | photography | pump-up modulation | Rimsky-Korsakov | working |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Headlines | 1:03:23 - Headline about the robbery | advance plot | augmented triad | chromatic sequence | diner | dramatic | newspaper | newspaper boy | selling | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Mysterioso) | 1:05:26 - Joe talks to Mike | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | chromatic sequence | dark | leading man | linear chromaticism | newspaper editor | office | ominous | somber |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Relief) | 1:06:54 - Mike talks with Joe | advance plot | hopeful | leading man | mode mixture | newspaper editor | office | relieved |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:09:28 - Mike is confronted by gangsters | bribe | chromatic parallelism | conflict | gangster | linear chromaticism | newspaper editor | street | tense | underscoring |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Gangsters walk | 1:10:26 - The gangsters walk to their car | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | conflict | gangster | mickey-mousing | newspaper editor | street | tense | walking |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Underscoring (Dramatic) | 1:10:32 - Joe runs after the car | augmented triad | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | conflict | dramatic | gangster | half-diminished 7th chord | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | newspaper editor | running | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Brave) | 1:10:38 - Joe jumps onto the car | action scene | augmented triad | car | chromatic parallelism | dramatic | fighting | gangster | hero | leading man | newspaper editor | street | whole-tone chord |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Heroic) | 1:10:32 - Joe heroically wrestles away the steering wheel | action scene | chromatic scale | dramatic | fighting | fragmentation | gangster | hero | leading man | newspaper editor | retrograde | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Car crash | 1:10:55 - Gangsters crash the car | action scene | car | chromatic scale | crashing | dramatic | gangster | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | newspaper editor | street |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Newspaper Montage) | 1:13:48 - Newspaper montage about Joe | courthouse | exciting | headlines | montage | montage | newspaper | printing press | street |
| Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Newspaper Fanfare | 0:04:24 - Sign for "The Banton Record" newspaper office | conflict | fanfare | justice | newspaper office | noble | parallelism | sign |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:05:11 - Newspaper on the sidewalk | conflict | dissonant bass | gangster | newspaper | reading | street | tense | underscoring | whole-tone | whole-tone chord |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Headlines | 0:41:50 - Newspaper headline is shown | 9th chord | chromatic parallelism | dark | fanfare | headline | montage | montage | newspaper | pedal tone |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Headlines 2 | 0:49:31 - Newspaper headline is shown | added-note chord | bold | fanfare | headline | montage | montage | newspaper |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Each Dawn B (Montage) | 1:03:40 - Newspaper headlines are shown | artwork in score | common-tone diminished 7th | dissonant bass | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | newspaper | panning shot | tragic |
Each Dawn I Die (1939) | Transition (Extended) | 1:28:35 - Newspaper headline is shown | 9th chord | dissonant bass | dramatic | headline | montage | montage | newspaper |
| The FBI Story (1959) | Klansmen (Agitato) | 0:34:58 - Newspaper headline attacking the Klan | flashback | KKK | march | newspaper | office |
The FBI Story (1959) | FBI March A (Printing Press) | 1:02:50 - Printing press in action | FBI | flashback | newspaper | printing press |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus 2 | 0:18:16 - A newspaper headline | chromatic parallelism | dark | headline | newspaper | politician | porch | self-borrowing | sheriff | throwing | transition | tritone |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Inverted) | 0:30:13 - Townsfolk talk about Titus | advance plot | dark | inversion | newspaper | reading | self-borrowing | street | townsfolk |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus 2 (Extended) | 0:30:27 - Field overhears people talking about Titus | advance plot | chromatic sequence | dark | leading man | mysterious | newspaper | parallelism | reading | self-borrowing | street | townsfolk |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Lane (Not in Film 2) | NIF - not in film | 9th chord | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | conversing | cut from film | cut from film | leading lady | newspaper editor | office | whole-tone chord |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus 2 (Not in Film) | NIF - not in film | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | conversing | cut from film | cut from film | leading lady | newspaper editor | office | self-borrowing |
| Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | Headline | 0:38:23 - Newspaper headline | advance plot | body | brash | dock | headline | newspaper | not in score |
| Illegal (1955) | Police Car (Agitato) | 0:11:10 - Newspaper man reads the headline out and sells a paper to the reporter | murder | newspaper |
Illegal (1955) | Grabs newspaper | 0:20:03 - Man grabs the newpaper from Vic | bar | drunk | mickey-mousing | newspaper |
| In This Our Life (1942) | Stanley (Packing) | 1:14:36 - Newspaper headline about the accident | arriving | conflict | conversing | headline | lawyer | leading lady | leading man | mysterious | newspaper | office |
| Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | News Office | 0:03:08 - Newspaper headlines: one of Trevelyan innocent and the other of Trevelyan guilty | newspaper | transition |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Menace (Stingers) | 0:03:24 - Newspaper editor speaks on the phone about the trial | bus | editor | newspaper |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | Menace (Somber) | 0:17:50 - Trev reveals who he is to Shelly | murder | newspaper |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Work (Montage) | 1:34:44 - Montage of Mildred and Monte's marriage | cheerful | ex-husband | glass | heroine | leading lady | love interest | mickey-mousing | montage | newspaper | shadow |
| The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Watch on the Rhine (Headlines) | 0:28:39 - Montage of newspaper headlines | bold | direct modulation | headline | montage | newspaper | patriotic | patriotic tune | quintal chord |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Rule, Britannia! (Headlines) + La Marseillaise (Headlines) | 0:28:45 - Montage of newspaper headlines | direct modulation | headline | montage | newspaper | patriotic | patriotic tune | pedal tone | polytonality |
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | La Marseillaise | 0:28:48 - Montage of newspaper headlines | 9th chord | altered dominant | dark | headline | montage | newspaper | patriotic | patriotic tune |
| Kid Galahad (1937) | Kid Galahad (Montage) | 0:46:47 - Montage of newspaper headlines | 64 chord | advance plot | appoggiatura | boxer | boxing | boxing ring | cheering | chromatic parallelism | fanfare | fragmentation | harmonic sequence | heroic | leading man | montage | newspaper |
Kid Galahad (1937) | Yearning | 0:48:47 - Marie speaks with her mother | advance plot | chromatic mediant | conversing | deceptive resolution | foreign key modulation | home | mother | nervous | newspaper | not by Steiner | sister | transcribed by ear | yearning |
Kid Galahad (1937) | Heart’s Affair | 0:49:16 - Marie speaks with her mother | advance plot | altered dominant | conversing | harmonic sequence | home | mode mixture | mother | newspaper | romantic | sister | transcribed by ear | yearning |
Kid Galahad (1937) | The Moon Is In Tears Tonight (Love’s Sorrow) | 0:53:05 - Ward professes his love for Marie | conversing | heartbroken | leading lady | leading man | love scene | newspaper | not by Steiner | romantic | room | transcribed by ear |
Kid Galahad (1937) | Heart’s Affair (Arriving) | 0:58:30 - A newspaper headline | arriving | countermelody | farm | leading man | love scene | mode mixture | newspaper | playful | reading | sister | transcribed by ear |
Kid Galahad (1937) | Doublecross | 1:15:33 - Nick reads a newspaper headline | advance plot | driving | hotel | manager | newspaper | not by Steiner | passionate | reading | sequence | transcribed by ear |
Kid Galahad (1937) | Kid Galahad (Montage 2) | 1:18:47 - Newspaper headline montage | 64 chord | chromatic mediant | climax | fanfare | foreign key modulation | heroic | hurrying | manager | montage | newspaper | pedal tone | room | syncopation |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Tanner | 0:23:46 - Mrs. Tanner boards a trolley | advance plot | altered dominant | antagonist | newspaper | quartal chord | reading | street | syncopation | tense | traveling | trolley | widow |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Tanner (Panic) | 0:24:21 - Mrs. Tanner reads about her husband's name in the paper | advance plot | antagonist | newspaper | ostinato | panicked | panicking | street | trolley | widow |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Tragic) | 0:24:34 - Mrs. Tanner walks away down the street | advance plot | antagonist | husband | leading lady | newspaper | ostinato | panicked | panicking | police station | street | transition | trolley | victim | widow |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Tanner (Headlines) | 1:24:17 - Chris is suspected of murder | climax | friend | hurrying | montage | newspaper | newspaper boy | ostinato | panicked | police station | polytonality | radio | reporter | room | rushing | street | surprise | widow |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Scandal) | 1:24:55 - Newspaper headlines about the murder | climax | courtroom | crowd | dramatic | hurrying | montage | newspaper | ostinato | radio | rushing | sequential modulation |
The Unfaithful (1947) | Unfaithful (Heavy) | 1:26:02 - Newspaper of Chris testifying | climax | courtroom | crowd | dramatic | hurrying | montage | newspaper | rushing |
| White Heat (1949) | Cody | 0:29:18 - Newpaper headline | newspaper |
| Hell’s Highway (1932) | Hikin’ Jerry | 0:00:14 - Main titles and newspaper headlines | call and response | establish setting | guard | headline | montage | newspaper | opening title sequence | prison | prisoner | singing | solemn | source music | transcribed by ear | working |
| Is My Face Red? (1932) | Keyhole (Gossip) | 0:01:35 - Man and woman argue about a newspaper story | arguing | argument | dramatic | establish setting | gossip | newspaper | room | sequence | transcribed by ear |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Cute! | 0:01:58 - Gossip column about a gambler | altered dominant | bluesy | conversing | establish setting | gossip | newspaper | parallelism | sultry | transcribed by ear | whole-tone |
Is My Face Red? (1932) | Geraldine Tucker | 0:02:18 - Woman in the hospital | establish setting | hospital | mellow | newspaper | transcribed by ear |
| Secrets of the French Police (1932) | Beau Ideal | 0:00:15 - A newspaper is opened to a detective story | cast list | march | newspaper | opening title sequence | self-borrowing | upbeat |
Secrets of the French Police (1932) | La Marseillaise | 0:00:30 - The title of the film, superimposed on a newspaper illustration | familiar tune | France | newspaper | opening title sequence | patriotic | patriotic tune | self-borrowing | title of film |
Secrets of the French Police (1932) | You're In the Army Now | 0:00:35 - The title of the film | familiar tune | newspaper | opening title sequence | patriotic | patriotic tune | self-borrowing | title of film |
Secrets of the French Police (1932) | Drumroll | 0:00:38 - The title of the film | drumroll | newspaper | opening title sequence | patriotic | self-borrowing | title of film |
Secrets of the French Police (1932) | Page turn | 0:00:44 - The page turns and the cast list is revealed | cast list | mickey-mousing | newspaper | opening title sequence | page turn | romantic | self-borrowing | turning |
Secrets of the French Police (1932) | Romance | 0:00:46 - Cast list | cast list | dissonant bass | hemiola | newspaper | opening title sequence | page turn | romantic | self-borrowing |
Secrets of the French Police (1932) | La marseillaise (Distressed) | 0:01:00 - Cast list | cast list | diminished 7th chord | drumroll | France | newspaper | on-screen music | opening title sequence | page turn | patriotic tune | source music | tense |
| Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Violent) | 0:12:29 - Newspaper headline | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | headline | murder | murder scene | newspaper | transcribed by ear | violent |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Hazel murders husband | 0:12:36 - Hazel murders her husband | double exposure | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | headline | husband | knife | murder | murderer | murdering | murder scene | newspaper | room | stabbing | stinger | transcribed by ear | victim | violent |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Dramatic Agitato | 0:12:41 - Hazel screams | augmented sixth chord | chromatic scale | double exposure | dramatic | half-diminished 7th chord | headline | letter | murder | murderer | murder scene | newspaper | room | screaming | stinger | transcribed by ear | victim | violent |
| Gridiron Flash (1934) | Transition 1 | 0:33:37 - Sports montage | dramatic | football | football game | headline | montage | newspaper | playing |
Gridiron Flash (1934) | Transition 2 | 0:33:47 - Sports montage | athlete | dramatic | football | football game | headline | montage | newspaper | playing | running |
Gridiron Flash (1934) | Gridiron Flash | 0:33:51 - Sports montage | countermelody | fanfare | football | football game | headline | montage | newspaper | playing | upbeat |
| Hat, Coat, and Glove (1934) | Newspaper Montage | 0:32:22 - Newspaper headlines | dark | headline | montage | newspaper | ominous | tragic | transcribed by ear | whole-tone chord | whole-tone scale |
