| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Gangster (Elevator Music) | 0:42:40 - Elevator goes up | advance plot | elevator | gangster | lawyer | leading man | mickey-mousing | rising | room | tense |
| Crime School (1938) | The Warden (Quasi Mysterioso) | 0:27:46 - Warden approaches Frankie with a whip | develop character | reformatory | rising | standing | teenager | tense | threatening | warden | whip |
Crime School (1938) | Temperature rising | 0:54:53 - Close up of rising temperature gauge | action scene | boiler room | danger | frantic | gang | gauge | heat | mechanical | mickey-mousing | reformatory | rising | teenager | temperature | tense | tone cluster | watching |
Crime School (1938) | Temperature rising 2 | 0:57:12 - The temperature gauge rises | action scene | boiler room | danger | dramatic | gauge | heat | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | rising | teenager | temperature | tense |
Crime School (1938) | Explosion | 0:57:21 - Mark pulls Squirt out of the boiler room | action scene | ascending | boiler room | destruction | dramatic | exploding | explosion | hero | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | rising | stairs | teenager | tense |
Crime School (1938) | Mark Saves Boy | 0:57:29 - Mark carries Squirt up the stairs | action scene | ascending | hero | heroic | leading man | mickey-mousing | reformatory | rising | stairs | teenager | walking |
| Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Detective Rises | 0:05:34 - Detective rises to question Bridget | rising | transition |
| The Informer (1935) | The Informer (Burning Poster) + Blood Money | 0:32:03 - Gypo in rebel headquarters | advance plot | antagonist | burning | combination of themes | diminished 7th chord | fire | headquarters | leading man | mickey-mousing | mysterious | octatonic | rebel | rising | room | Scotch snap | tense | tone cluster |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Wally stands up and walks | 0:10:21 - Wally stands up to go to the phone | action scene | friend | mickey-mousing | rising | room | standing | tense | up | victim | walking |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred stands and walks to window | 1:38:02 - Mildred stands up and goes to the window | advance plot | delicate | graceful | heroine | leading lady | mickey-mousing | peaceful | rising | room | standing | up | walking |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Rocks struggles and falls | 1:09:52 - Rocks tries to get up, then collapses | death | doctor | down | drugs | dying | falling | gangster | leading lady | leading man | murder | murderer | murder scene | office | poison | rising | struggling | tense | up |
