| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The War of the Roses | 0:27:13 - Henriette plays the harpsichord | advance plot | child | children's song | dancing | governess | leading lady | on-screen music | pleasant | room | singing | source music |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The War of the Roses | 0:28:23 - The girls sing | advance plot | child | children's song | dancing | governess | leading lady | on-screen music | pleasant | room | singing | source music |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Lullaby | 0:35:08 - Henriette sings a lullaby | advance plot | calm | caring | child | duke | gentle | governess | illness | leading lady | leading man | lullaby | room | scored source music | singing |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Lullaby | 0:35:39 - Henriette sings a lullaby | advance plot | calm | caring | child | duke | gentle | governess | illness | leading lady | leading man | lullaby | room | scored source music | singing |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Lullaby | 0:36:25 - Henriette sings a lullaby | advance plot | calm | caring | child | duke | gentle | governess | illness | leading lady | leading man | room | singing |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Loti’s Song | 1:24:31 - Apples roasting on a fire | child | cooking | create suspense | forest | governess | leading lady | old man | scary | scored source music | singer | singing | spooky |
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Una Voce Poco Fa | 0:00:54 - A woman plays the piano | calm | leading man | listening | on-screen music | party | pianist | room | singer | singing | sneaking | source music | stealing | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | The Last Rose of Summer | 0:03:14 - A woman sings | calm | doctor | folk song | Irish | leading man | listening | on-screen music | party | pianist | room | singer | singing | sneaking | source music | stealing | thief |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Clitterhouse Onestep | 0:33:20 - Gangsters walk through music studio | added-note chord | common-tone diminished 7th | dancer | dancing | gangster | jaunty | on-screen music | parallel double period | pianist | playing | singing | studio | transition | walking | warming up |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Sanctus | 0:09:13 - Church interior with boys singing in a choir loft | boys choir | church | conducting | gangster | leading man | music scene | nun | on-screen music | organ | priest | religious | serious | singer | singing | solemn | source music |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | In My Merry Oldsmobile | 0:12:55 - Rocky and Jerry singing | cheerful | church | gangster | hymn | laughing | leading man | music scene | on-screen music | popular music | priest | singing | source music |
| Are These Our Children? (1931) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Flo Sings) | 0:17:20 - Flo sings | advance plot | cheerful | dance hall | love interest | on-screen music | singing | source music | transcribed by ear |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles | 0:17:38 - Young people talking at a dance | advance plot | cheerful | conversing | dance hall | leading man | love interest | on-screen music | seductive | singing | source music |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Eddie Sings) | 0:19:13 - Eddie sings to himself | cheerful | leading man | on-screen music | singing | source music | street | transcribed by ear | transition | walking |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Eddie Sings) | 0:19:30 - Eddie arrives home | advance plot | arriving | cheerful | leading man | on-screen music | room | singing | source music | transcribed by ear |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Flo Sings) | 0:32:32 - Flo sings | advance plot | cheerful | leading man | love interest | singing | source music | train | train | traveling |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles (Eddie Sings) | 0:40:40 - The boys leave the scene of the crime | friend | leading man | murderer | murder scene | nervous | singing | source music | street | walking |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Stars and Stripes Forever | 0:52:14 - Young people cavorting in the street | advance plot | cheerful | dancing | drunk | friend | leading man | love interest | murderer | on-screen music | singing | source music | street |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles | 0:53:07 - Drunken young people | advance plot | cheerful | dancing | drunk | friend | hallway | leading man | love interest | murderer | on-screen music | singing | source music |
| Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Two by Two | 0:02:51 - The marriage clerk sings | clerk | establish character | marriage | office | on-screen music | singing | source music | upbeat |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Break the News to Mother | 0:18:44 - Teddy sings | advance plot | aunt | brother | cheerful | crazy person | familiar tune | groom | leading lady | leading man | on-screen music | room | singing | source music | war song |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Happy Land | 0:20:06 - Abby sings | advance plot | aunt | cheerful | familiar tune | groom | leading lady | leading man | on-screen music | room | score to source | singing | source music |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Happy Land | 0:24:16 - Abby, Martha, and Mortimer in the kitchen | advance plot | aunt | cheerful | child | crazy person | familiar tune | groom | leading lady | leading man | murderer | on-screen music | room | singing | source music |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Break the News to Mother | 0:29:30 - Mortimer listens to Teddy sing | advance plot | brother | cheerful | crazy person | familiar tune | groom | leading man | on-screen music | room | singing | source music |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Happy Land | 1:19:56 - Mortimer with the taxi driver | aunt | brother | calm | conversing | crazy person | doctor | driver | funeral | groom | hymn | leading lady | leading man | murderer | on-screen music | score to source | singing | source music | street |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Happy Land | 1:22:17 - Mortimer talking with Elaine through her window | aunt | bride | calm | conversing | crazy person | doctor | funeral | groom | hymn | leading lady | leading man | murderer | singing | street |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Symphony No. 5: I | 1:27:02 - Teddy plays the bugle | advance plot | crazy person | familiar tune | groom | leading man | playing | room | singing | startled |
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) | Happy Land | 1:50:41 - Mortimer sings | bugle call | climax | leading man | on-screen music | room | singing | source music | upbeat |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine | 1:05:55 - Marlowe arrives at Mars's place | advance plot | arriving | club | leading lady | leading man | love interest | musician | on-screen music | playing | private eye | singer | singing | source music | upbeat |
| Caged (1950) | He Leadeth Me | 1:27:53 - Women singing offscreen | choir | hymn | prison | singing | source music |
Caged (1950) | Rock of Ages | 1:30:31 - Women singing offscreen | choir | hymn | prison | singing | source music |
| City for Conquest (1940) | My Old Kentucky Home | 0:16:04 - Mickey sings to himself | advance plot | boxer | calm | conversing | folk music | leading man | locker room | manager | singing | source music |
City for Conquest (1940) | Where Were You When the Moon Came Out | 1:19:38 - Danny resting in bed | advance plot | blur | brother | composer | dancing | leading man | listening | musician | on-screen music | playing | room | singer | singing | source music | upbeat | victim |
City for Conquest (1940) | Powder My Back | 1:23:34 - A burlesque marquee | advance plot | conversing | dancer | dancing | leading lady | manager | on-screen music | singer | singing | source music | stage | upbeat |
| Crime School (1938) | Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet | 0:59:13 - The boys sing in the shoe repair shop | advance plot | cheerful | gang | hammering | on-screen music | reformatory | singing | source music | teenager | worker | working |
| They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | M-O-T-H-E-R | 0:05:01 - Drunken man sings | comical | drunk | establish character | on-screen music | room | singing | source music |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | By a Waterfall | 0:55:35 - A shower sign | advance plot | cheerful | comical | hero | leading man | on-screen music | popular music | ranch | showering | singing | source music | teenager | whistling |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | My Wild Irish Rose | 0:40:51 - Joe and Mabel in Nick's Diner | accompanied source music | altered dominant | common-chord modulation | diner | establish character | familiar tune | friend | happy | leading lady | leading man | mode mixture | parallel double period | popular song | radio | shopkeeper | singing | source music | ternary form |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | My Wild Irish Rose (Waltz) | 0:44:17 - Mabel and Nick talk | develop character | diner | familiar tune | friend | gentle | leading lady | leading man | on-screen music | pedal tone | popular song | shopkeeper | singing | source music |
| The FBI Story (1959) | Oh You Beautiful Doll | 2:01:41 - People at the party sing Oh You Beautiful Doll at the party | flashback | on-screen music | popular music | singing | source music |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | If I Could Be With You | 0:07:53 - Field hears music playing | carny | conversing | establish character | leading lady | leading man | on-screen music | parallel period | police | radio | room | sentimental | singer | singing | source music |
Flamingo Road (1949) | If I Could Be With You | 0:26:58 - People gamble and dance | advance plot | club | dancer | dancing | fighting | gambling | leading lady | leading man | musician | on-screen music | playing | police | sentimental | sheriff | singer | singing | source music |
Flamingo Road (1949) | You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby | 0:43:13 - A woman sings and plays the piano | advance plot | conversing | employer | leading lady | on-screen music | room | sentimental | singer | singing | source music |
Flamingo Road (1949) | If I Could Be With You | 0:59:52 - A woman sings with the dance band | advance plot | club | conversing | dancing | dining | leading lady | leading man | love interest | on-screen music | politician | sentimental | sheriff | singer | singing | source music | wife |
| Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | The Very Thought of You | 0:21:51 - Marcia singing at a club | club | conductor score | establish character | familiar tune | investigator | leading lady | leading man | on-screen music | pianist | popular music | romantic | singer | singing | source music |
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) | It Had to Be You | 1:17:06 - Marcia sings at a club | advance plot | calm | club | jazz | leading lady | leading man | on screen music | pianist | singer | singing | source music |
| The Informer (1935) | Drinking Song | 0:02:15 - Gypo and Frankie sing at a pub | cheerful | drinking | establish character | flashback | leading man | on-screen music | pub | remembering | singing | somber | source music | street |
The Informer (1935) | The Rose of Tralee | 0:02:54 - Man sings an Irish folk song by a lamp post | calm | establish character | familiar tune | folk song | Irish | leading man | on-screen music | poster | singing | source music | street | walking |
The Informer (1935) | The Minstrel Boy | 0:25:32 - Man sings a folk tune at the street corner | 9th chord | AABA structure | advance plot | angelic | antagonist | calm | familiar tune | folk song | gentle | leading man | listening | mode mixture | mourner | mourning | on-screen music | playing | praying | singer | singing | street | violinist | watching |
The Informer (1935) | Drinking Song 2 | 0:40:12 - Gypo sings a drunken song | advance plot | antagonist | drunk | leading man | on-screen music | singing | source music | street |
The Informer (1935) | Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms | 0:58:23 - Singing continues (from the previous scene) | advance plot | antagonist | crowd | crying | familiar tune | folk song | leading man | on-screen music | party | sentimental | singing |
| Key Largo (1948) | Moanin’ Low | 0:56:55 - Gaye sings "Moanin' Low" | awkward | blues | bluesy | boss | develop character | father | gangster | hostage | hotel | leading lady | leading man | moll | nervous | on-screen music | singer | singing | source music |
| Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | El Pregon de Santiago | 1:11:53 - Johnny plays the guitar and sings | guitar | Mexican music | on-screen music | singing |
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951) | La Paloma | 1:12:40 - Johnny sings briefly | guitar | Mexican music | on-screen music | singing |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Work (Singing Lesson) | 0:37:17 - Veda sings | child | double exposure | heroine | leading lady | montage | on-screen music | room | scored source music | singing | upbeat | voice-over | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | South American Way | 0:37:36 - Veda sings and plays while Kay dances | child | dancing | heroine | leading lady | music scene | on-screen music | playing | popular music | room | singing | source music | upbeat |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Please Think of Me | 1:01:54 - Monte dances with Veda | advance plot | antagonist | celebrating | dancing | daughter | friend | heroine | jukebox | leading lady | love interest | on-screen music | popular music | restaurant | singing | source music | upbeat |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Oceana Roll | 1:27:46 - Veda sings at a restaurant | advance plot | antagonist | cheerful | club | dancing | daughter | ex-husband | heroine | leading lady | on-screen music | playing | popular music | singing | source music |
| Rockabye (1932) | Improvised Lullaby | 0:11:04 - Elizabeth sings a lullaby | advance plot | calm | daughter | doll | leading lady | lullaby | mother | on-screen music | room | singing | source music |
Rockabye (1932) | Sleep, My Sweet | 0:11:20 - Judy sings with her daughter | advance plot | calm | daughter | humming | leading lady | lullaby | mother | on-screen music | room | score to source | singing | source music |
Rockabye (1932) | A Bird in a Gilded Cage | 0:29:09 - Snooks sings to herself | advance plot | drunk | mother | on-screen music | room | singing | source music |
Rockabye (1932) | Out of the Blue | 0:33:38 - People at a party | advance plot | calm | club | conversing | friend | leading lady | on-screen music | pianist | playing | playwright | singer | singing | source music |
Rockabye (1932) | Till the Real Thing Comes My Way | 0:39:24 - Judy sings a song | AABA structure | advance plot | club | dancing | leading lady | love interest | on-screen music | pianist | singing | source music | upbeat |
Rockabye (1932) | Till the Real Thing Comes My Way | 0:40:21 - Judy sings on top of a truck | advance plot | leading lady | love interest | on-screen music | pianist | singing | source music | street | upbeat |
Rockabye (1932) | Till the Real Thing Comes My Way | 1:01:37 - Judy sings at a party | advance plot | cheerful | leading lady | love interest | on-screen music | party | playwright | singing | source music |
| Kid Galahad (1937) | The Moon Is in Tears Tonight | 1:08:40 - Louise sings in a night club | leading lady | music scene | night club | on-screen music | playing music | sentimental | singing | source music | transcribed by ear |
| Traveling Husbands (1931) | There’s a Sob in My Heart (Singing) | 0:01:44 - A man sings on a train | cheerful | establish character | on-screen music | popular song | salesman | singing | source music | train | train | transcribed by ear |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | There’s a Sob in My Heart (Duet) | 0:28:54 - Two lovers sing in a hotel room | AABA structure | comedy | love | popular song | romantic | room | salesman | singing | source music | transcribed by ear |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | Ring Around the Rosy | 1:09:30 - Men sing and dance | children’s song | dancing | exciting | leading lady | leading man | on-screen music | resolution | room | salesman | singing | source music | transcribed by ear |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (At the Piano) | 0:34:49 - Leni plays and sings | boy | cheerful | child | establish character | familiar tune | father | folk song | foreign key modulation | German | hero | heroine | home | on-screen music | piano | playing | score to source | singing | source music | transcribed by ear |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | God Save the King | 1:09:06 - Mob sings "God Save the King" outside | advance plot | antagonist | British | choral singing | familiar tune | home | mob | patriotic | singing | source music | source to score | street |
| The Public Defender (1931) | He Walked Right In, Turned Around and Walked Right Out Again | 0:30:49 - Man sings to himself as he walks away | advance plot | cheerful | leading man | on-screen music | room | singing | source music | transcribed by ear |
| Three Who Loved (1931) | Forty-Nine Bottles | 0:47:56 - Drunk man sings | advance plot | drunk | drunk | on-screen music | party | singing | source music |
Three Who Loved (1931) | Forty-Nine Bottles | 0:48:14 - People sing | advance plot | drunk | drunk | on-screen music | party | singing | source music |
| 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 |
Hell’s Highway (1932) | John Henry | 0:06:08 - Men working on a chain gang | advance plot | guard | on-screen music | pentatonic | prison | prisoner | singing | solemn | source music | transcribed by ear | working |
Hell’s Highway (1932) | Willie, the Weeper | 0:13:52 - Men singing in prison | advance plot | blue note | guard | on-screen music | prison | prisoner | singing | solemn | source music | spiritual | transcribed by ear |
Hell’s Highway (1932) | The Load is Heavy | 0:17:26 - Men singing in prison | advance plot | barbershop | cheerful | guard | on-screen music | prison | prisoner | singing | source music | transcribed by ear |
Hell’s Highway (1932) | Frankie and Johnny | 0:27:11 - Men singing in prison | advance plot | calm | guard | on-screen music | prison | prisoner | singing | source music | transcribed by ear |
| 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 |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | Improvisation | 0:39:35 - Violet plays the piano and sings | advance plot | comic | comical | conversing | office | on-screen music | playing | prisoner | singing | source music |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | Improvisation | 0:40:44 - Violet plays the piano and sings | advance plot | comic | comical | conversing | office | on-screen music | playing | prisoner | singing | source music |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | Improvisation | 0:41:43 - Violet plays the piano and sings | advance plot | comic | comical | conversing | office | on-screen music | playing | prisoner | singing | source music |
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) | Improvisation | 0:42:44 - Violet plays the piano and sings | advance plot | comic | comical | office | on-screen music | playing | prisoner | singing | source music |
| Is My Face Red? (1932) | You Bunch of Fun | 0:10:42 - Backstage at a Broadway show | advance plot | Broadway | cheerful | dancer | dancing | leading man | popular music | singing | source music | stage | transcribed by ear |
| Ladies of the Jury (1932) | I’m Just Wild About Harry | 0:52:40 - Spencer sings | advance plot | juror | jury room | on-screen music | singing | source music | upbeat |
Ladies of the Jury (1932) | All in Favor of Taking a Ride Say Aye | 0:56:03 - Mayme sings | advance plot | juror | jury room | on-screen music | singing | source music | upbeat |
| Men of America (1932) | Italian Folk Song | 0:32:52 - Tony sings a folk song | advance plot | cheerful | grapes | Italian | on-screen music | singing | source music | working |
| Secrets of the French Police (1932) | Russian National Anthem | 0:25:25 - A group of people sing the Russian national anthem | advance plot | anthem | balalaika | familiar tune | on-screen music | patriotic | patriotic tune | playing | room | Russia | singing |
| State’s Attorney (1932) | Na Moku Eha | 0:01:19 - Hula dancer | cheerful | club | conversing | dancer | dancing | drinking | establish character | gambling | Hawaiian | leading man | on-screen music | playing | politician | singing | source music |
State’s Attorney (1932) | When I am Dead | 0:12:59 - Tom sings to himself | advance plot | cheerful | humming | lawyer | on-screen music | room | singing | source music |
State’s Attorney (1932) | Stack o’ Lee Blues | 0:43:17 - Jazz musicians playing in a club | advance plot | club | Dixieland | musician | on-screen music | playing | singer | singing | source music | upbeat |
State’s Attorney (1932) | Bibelot | 0:55:22 - Tom plays the piano | advance plot | cheerful | musician | on-screen music | playing | room | singing | source music |
| The Phantom of Crestwood (1932) | Auld Lang Syne | 0:19:50 - A man sings to himself at the party | advance plot | drinking | familiar tune | on-screen music | party | peaceful | singing | source music | transcribed by ear |
| The Roadhouse Murder (1932) | Three Little Words | 0:04:41 - A woman undresses | advance plot | cheerful | floozy | on-screen music | room | singing | source music |
The Roadhouse Murder (1932) | Three Little Words | 0:05:23 - A woman in the bathtub | advance plot | cheerful | floozy | on-screen music | room | singing | source music |
| Blind Adventure (1933) | The Prisoner’s Song | 0:35:12 - Holmes sings and whistles | advance plot | calm | criminal | on-screen music | rooftop | singing | source music | whistling |
Blind Adventure (1933) | The Prisoner’s Song | 1:02:08 - Holmes sings to himself | calm | conclusion | criminal | on-screen music | rooftop | singing | source music |
| Emergency Call (1933) | Fit as a Fiddle | 0:15:50 - A woman sings | advance plot | jaunty | nurse | on-screen music | popular song | singing | source music | transcribed by ear |
| Gridiron Flash (1934) | Oh, Mama | 0:22:48 - Pudge sings | athlete | awkward | crowd | friend | listening | party | room | singing | source music |
| Murder on the Blackboard (1934) | Scale | 0:28:06 - Hildegarde whistles | advance plot | detective | leading lady | leading man | major scale | music notes | neutral | on-screen music | school | singing | sleuth | source music |
Murder on the Blackboard (1934) | Unknown Tune | 0:29:23 - Otto sings to himself | advance plot | drunk | janitor | on-screen music | school | singing | source music |
| The Breaking Point (1950) | Carmen, Carmela | 0:11:11 - Harry talks to Duncan in a bar | bar | conversing | criminal | establish setting | floozy | folk music | gambling | leading lady | leading man | musician | on-screen music | performing | pleasant | sailor | serenading | singing | source music |
The Breaking Point (1950) | Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone | 0:39:07 - Harry arrives at a bar | advance plot | bar | bartender | criminal | dancing | floozy | jukebox | leading lady | leading man | on-screen music | sailor | singing | source music | upbeat |
