The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | How Dry I Am | 0:20:16 - People in a hotel lobby | advance plot | dark | gangster | lobby | mysterious | on-screen music | whistling |
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | Whistling | 0:21:14 - Character whistling | advance plot | cheerful | gang | on-screen music | source music | street | teenager | walking | whistling |
Caged (1950) | Ad-Lib Whistling | 1:19:30 - Evelyn whistles a few pitches to herself | prison | telephone | whistling |
Crime School (1938) | Elephant Walk | 0:04:57 - Kids whistle as cop walks away | comical | establish character | gang | on screen music | source music | street | teenager | whistling |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Cowboy From Brooklyn | 0:25:04 - Worker whistles | establish character | jaunty | on-screen music | ranch | source music | teenager | whistling | working |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | By a Waterfall | 0:55:35 - Johnnie and the boys operate a shower | advance plot | cheerful | comical | hero | leading man | on screen music | popular music | ranch | showering | singing | source music | teenager | whistling |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Whistling | 0:45:44 - Joe whistles and walks down the street | cheerful | chromatic mediant | city | hero | on-screen music | source music | traveling | whistling |
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Whistling (Suspenseful) | 0:46:25 - Mabel talks to the police as Joe gets closer to the house | anxious | cheerful | concerned | create suspense | hero | heroine | linear chromaticism | on-screen music | polytonality | room | shopkeeper | source music | whistling |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Pittsburgh | 0:03:38 - View of the city (Pittsburgh) | city | mickey-mousing | train | whistling |
The Informer (1935) | The Irish Washerwoman | 0:43:45 - People sing and dance in a pub | advance plot | antagonist | bar | familiar tune | folk song | happy | Irish | leading man | source music | whistling |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes | 0:16:07 - Cop whistles to himself | advance plot | detective | familiar tune | heroine | leading lady | on-screen music | police | police station | source music | tense | ticking | whistling |
Traveling Husbands (1931) | There’s a Sob in My Heart (Whistling) | 0:01:25 - A man whistles on a train | cheerful | establish character | on-screen music | popular song | salesman | source music | train | train | transcribed by ear | whistling |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Theme and Variations) | 0:02:37 - David gets off his bike and enters his home | augmented triad | classical music | establish character | familiar tune | Haydn | hero | home | playful | quotation | scored source music | source music | street | whistling |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony | 0:17:34 - David whistles while helping a patient | classical music | comical | doctor | establish character | familiar tune | Haydn | hero | heroine | office | on-screen music | quotation | source music | whistling |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony | 0:29:13 - David whistles | advance plot | classical music | familiar tune | Haydn | hero | home | quotation | source music | whistling | wife |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Newspaper) | 0:31:52 - David sits and whistles | classical music | familiar tune | foreshadowing | happy | Haydn | hero | home | ominous | quotation | reveal | transition | whistling |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony | 0:56:18 - David whistles on his way to breakfast | advance plot | calm | classical music | familiar tune | Haydn | hero | home | quotation | room | whistling |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Whistling) | 1:48:34 - David whistles as he thinks about his execution | advance plot | classical music | familiar tune | gentle | Haydn | hero | on-screen music | prison | quotation | source music | sweet | whistling |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Ghostly) | 1:49:48 - Gerald says that Susan has a heart of gold underneath | antagonist | boy | child | classical music | conclusion | death | eerie | familiar tune | Haydn | home | ominous | on-screen music | quotation | room | source music | whistling |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Frohe Botschaft) | 1:50:50 - Gerald sings in the tub | boy | child | classical music | combination of themes | conclusion | death | familiar tune | Haydn | home | on-screen music | quotation | room | source music | whistling |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony | 1:51:13 - Closing credits | classical music | closing credits | end title sequence | familiar tune | Haydn | on-screen music | quotation | source music | whistling |
Emergency Call (1933) | Whistling | 1:00:04 - A commemorative sign is unveiled | advance plot | solemn | transcribed by ear | whistler | whistling |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams A | 0:03:29 - Eddie walks home | cheerful | establish character | gentle | leading man | love scene | on-screen music | score to source | street | walking | whistling |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Dreams A | 0:03:59 - Eddie walks home | advance plot | cheerful | leading man | on-screen music | score to source | street | walking | whistling |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles | 0:18:46 - Eddie whistles on his way home | cheerful | leading man | on-screen music | source music | street | transition | walking | whistling |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles | 0:23:11 - Eddie walks away | advance plot | cheerful | leading man | on-screen music | source music | street | walking | whistling |
Are These Our Children? (1931) | Makes You Forget Your Troubles | 0:28:36 - Eddie arrives home | cheerful | leading man | on-screen music | source music | street | transition | walking | whistling |
Blind Adventure (1933) | Prisoner's Song | 0:35:12 - Holmes sings and whistles | advance plot | calm | criminal | on-screen music | rooftop | singing | source music | whistling |
Murder on the Blackboard (1934) | The Clue | 0:28:13 - Hildegarde whistles | advance plot | detective | leading lady | leading man | music notes | neutral | on-screen music | school | sleuth | source music | whistling |
Murder on the Blackboard (1934) | The Clue | 0:32:55 - Hildegarde whistles | advance plot | leading lady | leading man | neutral | on-screen music | school | sleuth | source music | whistling |
Murder on the Blackboard (1934) | The Clue | 0:40:59 - Hildegarde whistles | advance plot | leading lady | neutral | on-screen music | school | school principal | sleuth | source music | whistling |
Murder on the Blackboard (1934) | The Clue | 0:56:42 - Hildegarde whistles | advance plot | detective | hospital | leading lady | neutral | on-screen music | professor | sleuth | source music | victim | whistling |
Murder on the Blackboard (1934) | The Clue | 1:08:29 - Hildegarde whistles | advance plot | café | detective | leading lady | leading man | neutral | on-screen music | sleuth | source music | whistling |