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 |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Train | 0:03:12 - A departing train | departing | establish setting | mysterious | tense | train | train effect | train station | voice-over |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Train + Chicago | 0:03:20 - A departing train | accompanied dialogue | combination of themes | departing | establish setting | familiar tune | mysterious | popular tune | tense | train | train effect | train station | voice-over |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Sulking) | 0:28:33 - Rosa watches the train | advance plot | leading lady | solemn | train | train station | walking | watching |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Chicago (Mink Coat) | 0:29:01 - Rosa sees Carol's mink coat | advance plot | conversing | familiar tune | jealousy | leading lady | popular tune | sentimental | train station |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Chicago (Carol) | 0:29:17 - Rosa meets Carol | advance plot | conversing | familiar tune | gentle | jealousy | leading lady | popular tune | train station |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Chicago (Jealous) | 0:29:33 - Rosa glares at Carol | advance plot | conversing | dark | familiar tune | jealousy | leading lady | popular tune | sentimental | train station |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Train (Whistle) + Chicago | 0:44:23 - A speeding train | combination of themes | familiar tune | hurried | popular tune | train | train | train effect | transition | traveling |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Sawmill + Steam Whistle | 1:30:36 - Darkness | agitated | climax | combination of themes | leading lady | madness | mad scene | murderer | stumbling | tense | train | train station | walking | whistle effect |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Train | 1:30:52 - A locomotive | agitated | climax | cut from film | leading lady | madness | mad scene | murderer | stumbling | tense | train | train effect | train station | walking |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Train + Chicago (Shrill) | 1:30:54 - Rosa stumbles towards the train | agitated | climax | combination of themes | cut from film | familiar tune | leading lady | madness | mad scene | murderer | popular tune | shrill | stumbling | tense | train | train effect | train station | walking |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Train (Heating Up) + Chicago (Fragmented) | 1:31:05 - Rosa stumbles towards the train | agitated | climax | combination of themes | desperate | familiar tune | leading lady | madness | mad scene | murderer | popular tune | stumbling | tense | train | train effect | train station | walking |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Chicago | 1:31:21 - Rosa stumbles towards the train | climax | desperate | familiar tune | leading lady | madness | mad scene | murderer | popular tune | stumbling | tense | train | train station | walking |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Chicago | 1:31:26 - The train leaves the station | agitated | climax | departing | familiar tune | leading lady | madness | mad scene | murderer | obsessive | popular tune | shrill | tense | train | train station |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Stinger | 1:31:51 - Rosa dead | arriving | climax | dark | death | doctor | husband | leading lady | leading man | mad scene | murderer | solemn | stinger | train | train station | walking |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa | 1:32:10 - Lewis arrives | arriving | checking | climax | dark | death | doctor | dramatic | husband | leading lady | leading man | mad scene | murderer | reacting | tender | train | train station |
His Greatest Gamble (1934) | The Chase 1 | 0:29:26 - Philip escapes from prison | augmented triad | dark | escaping | frantic | leading man | montage | montage | prisoner | sequence | train | transcribed by ear | traveling | whole-tone scale |
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 |
City for Conquest (1940) | Sidewalks of New York (Montage) | 0:02:18 - A montage of New York City scenes | added-note chord | boat | bridge | car | chromatic parallelism | city | conversing | Dutch angle | establish setting | excited | fragmentation | montage | old man | panning shot | police | pump-up modulation | soliloquy | train |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem Transition 1 (Short) | 0:34:25 - A rushing train | added-note chord | hurried | montage | ostinato | rushing | train | train | traveling |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem Train Whistle | 0:34:28 - Danny on the train | added-note chord | blaring | hurried | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | ostinato | pc set | rushing | train | train | traveling |
City for Conquest (1940) | Tone Poem A + Sidewalks of New York | 0:38:31 - Traveling montage | combination of themes | double exposure | gentle | montage | train | transcribed by ear | traveling |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Train | 0:22:47 - A rushing train and a map | dramatic | leading man | mickey-mousing | montage | montage | motoric | polychord | train | train | traveling | whistle |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Jumps off train | 0:24:21 - Johnnie jumps off the moving train | advance plot | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | dramatic | escaping | jumping | leading man | mickey-mousing | train | train |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Fugitive (Ending) | 1:30:23 - A train rushes away | detective | foreign key modulation | leading man | mode mixture | optimistic | passionate | plagal cadence | resolution | resolution | running | teenager | train station | triumphant |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Running | 1:30:35 - Johnnie runs to Tommy | leading man | mickey-mousing | optimistic | passionate | resolution | resolution | running | teenager | train station | triumphant |
Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Train Station | 0:07:01 - Train arrives in the station in Europe | flashback | Italy | nighttime | train station |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Train whistle | 0:17:18 - A distant train whistle sounds | advance plot | dissonant | leading man | mickey-mousing | pc set | prison | train whistle |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Travel Montage) | 0:36:28 - A speeding train | added-note chord | foreign key modulation | frantic | hitch-hiking | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | map | montage | pc set | runaway | sign | train | train | train whistle | traveling | traveling scene | truck | walking |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Speeding train | 0:51:13 - A train approaches | dissonant bass | dramatic | escape | mickey-mousing | train | train station | traveling |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Thankful) | 0:51:24 - Joe, Mabel, and Nick talk in the car | augmented sixth chord | escape | friend | leading lady | leading man | shopkeeper | thankful | train station |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | My Wild Irish Rose (Goodbye) | 0:51:35 - Joe and Mabel say goodbye to Nick | 9th chord | escape | familiar tune | foreign key modulation | friend | leading lady | leading man | linear chromaticism | mode mixture | popular song | shopkeeper | tender | train station |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | My Wild Irish Rose (Grandioso) | 0:52:06 - Joe and Mabel leave on a train | 9th chord | 64 chord | calm | escape | familiar tune | friend | leading lady | leading man | popular song | shopkeeper | sweet | tender | train station | triumphant |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Travel Montage) | 1:26:04 - Train approaches the screen | added-note chord | foreign key modulation | happy | leading lady | leading man | pc set | resolution | train | train | traveling |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Train) | 1:26:17 - Joe and Mabel on the train | 11th chord | added-note chord | happy | leading lady | leading man | resolution | sequence | train | train | traveling |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (Hanging Hats) | 1:26:31 - Joe and Mabel toss their hats | 11th chord | chromatic mediant | foreign key modulation | happy | hat | hook | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | resolution | throwing | train | traveling | whistle effect |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Dust Be My Destiny (The End) | 1:26:45 - "The End" | closing credits | end title sequence | foreign key modulation | happy | leading lady | leading man | The End | train | traveling |
The FBI Story (1959) | FBI March A (Train) | 0:24:18 - Chip and Lucy on a train | FBI | flashback | machine | train | traveling |
The FBI Story (1959) | FBI March A (Ethereal) | 0:26:41 - Sam leaves the conversation and Chip rethinks his decision | concerned | contemplation | FBI | flashback | train |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Train | 0:42:28 - A rushing train | dark | dramatic | fiancée | leading man | montage | montage | ostinato | train | train | traveling |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Train + Titus (Rising) | 0:42:43 - Field and Annabelle in a train car | combination of themes | dark | dramatic | fiancée | leading man | montage | montage | ostinato | self-borrowing | sequence | train | train | traveling |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Somber Phone Call | 1:19:54 - Dan calls Lane from the station | calling | conflict | half-diminished 7th chord | husband | leading lady | leading man | politician | somber | tone cluster | train station | wife |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Titus (Triste 2) | 1:20:10 - Dan and Lane talk on the phone | calling | conflict | husband | leading lady | leading man | politician | room | somber | train station | wife |
Flamingo Road (1949) | If I Could Be With You (Maestoso) | 1:26:31 - Dan reads a telegram about Field's death | advance plot | chromatic parallelism | diminished 7th chord | lawyer | leading man | linear chromaticism | politician | reading | suicide | telegram | tragic | train | violent |
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 |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Jumps off stairs | 1:03:23 - Matt jumps off of the staircase | communist | gun | gunshot | jumping | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | shooting | shootout | shootout | spy | teacher | tense | tone cluster | train tracks | tritone | undercover agent |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Running and hiding | 1:03:28 - Matt runs and takes cover | communist | hiding | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | running | shootout | shootout | spy | teacher | tense | train tracks | undercover agent |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Undercover Agent (Gunfight) | 1:03:34 - Train tracks | augmented triad | communist | dissonant bass | diving | dramatic | gun | gunshot | hiding | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | minor-major 7th chord | polychord | running | shooting | shootout | shootout | spy | syncopation | teacher | tense | train tracks | tritone oscillation | undercover agent |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Running | 1:03:57 - Communist runs | communist | dramatic | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | running | shootout | shootout | spy | teacher | tense | train tracks | undercover agent | whole-tone chord |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Commie is shot | 1:04:01 - Communist is shot and falls dead | chromatic scale | communist | death | dramatic | dying | falling | gun | gunshot | leading lady | leading man | mickey-mousing | pc set | shooting | shootout | shootout | spy | stinger | teacher | tense | tone cluster | train tracks | undercover agent |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Rushing train | 1:24:15 - A rushing train | double exposure | excited | heroine | leading lady | mickey-mousing | train | train | transition | traveling |
Kid Galahad (1937) | Green Lady | 1:12:08 - Ward, Marie, and Louise talk in the club | advance plot | arguing | cheerful | fighting | gangster | night club | source music | trainer | transcribed by ear |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | There's a Sob in My Heart | 0:00:00 - A rushing train under the opening credits | AABA structure | opening title sequence | popular song | syncopation | train | transcribed by ear | traveling | upbeat |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | There's a Sob in My Heart (Whistling) | 0:01:25 - A man whistles on a train | cheerful | comment on score | establish character | on-screen music | popular song | salesman | source music | train | train | transcribed by ear | whistling |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | There's a Sob in My Heart (Singing) | 0:01:44 - A man sings on a train | cheerful | comment on score | establish character | on-screen music | popular song | salesman | singing | source music | train | train | transcribed by ear |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Allegretto) | 1:14:16 - David helps Leni buy a ticket | advance plot | classical music | conversing | familiar tune | fragmentation | gentle | Haydn | hero | heroine | optimistic | pedal tone | quotation | sequence | sweet | train station |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Frohe Botschaft (Drifting) | 1:14:30 - David gives Leni money for her travels | altered dominant | arrest | arresting | chromatic parallelism | conflict | conversing | dark | death | familiar tune | folk song | gentle | German | happy | hero | heroine | mode mixture | murder | police | quotation | sad | sweet | tense | train station | whole-tone chord |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Underscoring (Tense) | 1:15:25 - David is taken away by the police | 9th chord | added-note chord | arresting | conflict | hero | heroine | pedal tone | police | tense | train station | underscoring |
White Heat (1949) | Transition | 0:00:08 - Train coming out of a tunnel | approaching | opening title sequence | starring list | tense | train | train effect | tunnel |
White Heat (1949) | White Heat | 0:00:16 - Main title over an approaching train | cast list | countryside | dark | dramatic | opening title sequence | starring list | title of film | train | tunnel |
White Heat (1949) | Steam | 0:04:54 - Man gets burned by steam from train | burning | bursting | countryside | dramatic | establish character | falling | gangster | leading man | murderer | pain | robbery | steam | steam effect | stinger | tense | train | train engineer | victim | writhing |
White Heat (1949) | Danger | 0:05:02 - Gangsters leap from the train | announcer | countryside | dramatic | escaping | establish character | gangster | jumping | leading man | murderer | pain | radio | robbery | tense | train | train engineer | victim | writhing |
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 |
Thirteen Women (1932) | The Train | 0:01:33 - A rushing train | chromatic mediant | mickey-mousing | pedal tone | rushing | sorting | train | train | train whistle | transcribed by ear | transition | traveling | upbeat |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Fate) | 0:09:11 - The swami predicts Ursula's fate | antagonist | conversing | dark | establish character | fate | fortune teller | half-diminished 7th chord | leading lady | mickey-mousing | mysterious | predicting | room | somber | stinger | swami | train whistle | transcribed by ear |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Exotic) + The Train | 0:23:07 - Helen points the gun at herself and cries | antagonist | combination of themes | crying | exotic | exoticism | gun | Gypsy major scale | hypnotic | murderer | murder scene | pedal tone | suicide | tense | train | train | transcribed by ear | traveling | victim |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (Suicide) | 0:24:18 - Helen commits suicide | antagonist | chromaticism | committing suicide | dying | exotic | exoticism | gun | gunshot | hypnotic | murderer | murder scene | pc set | pedal tone | stinger | suicide | tense | train | train | transcribed by ear | traveling | victim |
Thirteen Women (1932) | Ursula (The End) | 0:59:03 - Ursula jumps to her death | chromatic scale | climax | dark | dramatic | dying | jumping | leading lady | murderer | The End | train | transcribed by ear |