| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Night Watchman | 0:44:29 - Watchman arrives at the store | darkness | flashlight | guard | keys | mysterious | opening | robbery | store | suspenseful | walking | working |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Walking | 0:44:39 - The watchman walks | darkness | flashlight | guard | mickey-mousing | mysterious | robbery | store | suspenseful | walking | working |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Night Watchman (Light and Shadow) | 0:44:51 - The watchman goes about his work | criminal | flashlight | gangster | guard | mysterious | robbery | shadow | store | suspenseful | walking | working |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:47:04 - Doctor talks with the criminals | criminal | doctor | examining | gangster | leading man | robbery | rooftop | tense | thief | underscoring | walking | working |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Butch Lights the Torch | 0:51:05 - Butch prepares the torch | anxious | combination of themes | criminal | dramatic | fire | flame | gangster | hero | lighting | preparing | rescuing | robbery | store | tense | thief | torch | working |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Gangster (Fingerprints) | 0:06:17 - Montage of juvenile detention and prison life | digging | dramatic | establish character | fingerprints | headline | leading man | main theme | main title | marching | montage | mug shot | newspaper | prison | prisoner | reformatory | serious | working |
| Crime School (1938) | Gangster Blues (Painting) | 0:50:45 - The boys paint their room | comedy | comical | gang | painting | reformatory | setting | teenager | working |
Crime School (1938) | The Boiler Room | 0:54:27 - Boys talk about stoking the boiler | action scene | auctioning | boiler room | fanfare | gang | heroic | reformatory | teenager | working |
Crime School (1938) | Gangster Blues (Mechanical) | 0:54:46 - Boys get to work | action scene | boiler room | coal | danger | fire | fire | frantic | gang | gauge | heat | hurrying | mechanical | reformatory | shoveling | smoke | teenager | temperature | temperature | working |
Crime School (1938) | Boiler Overheating | 0:55:31 - Danger as the boiler gets really hot | action scene | arguing | boiler room | danger | frantic | gang | gauge | heat | hurrying | mechanical | reformatory | shoveling | teenager | temperature | tense | worker | working |
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) | 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) | Date picking | 0:25:21 - Dead End Kids picking dates | establish character | light | ranch | teenager | working |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Ladder | 0:30:11 - Boys sees Johnnie leaving | cheerful | conflict | fun | ladder | ranch | teenager | working |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Buzzing | 1:01:05 - Newspapermen work in the dark room | action scene | buzzy | dark room | exciting | hero | newspaper | newspaper editor | parallelism | photography | Rimsky-Korsakov | working |
| The FBI Story (1959) | The Bureau (Investigating) | 0:05:51 - Investigators doing research and interviewing various people | FBI | investigation | office | pharmacist | working |
The FBI Story (1959) | FBI March A (Marcia) | 1:30:44 - Agents working at FBI headquarters | agent | FBI | flashback | office | working |
The FBI Story (1959) | FBI March B | 1:31:19 - FBI agents working in a lab | agent | FBI | flashback | lab | working |
The FBI Story (1959) | FBI March A (A la Marcia) | 1:31:36 - FBI agents working in a lab | agent | FBI | flashback | lab | working |
The FBI Story (1959) | The Bureau (Working) | 1:32:13 - Chip working at FBI headquarters | FBI | flashback | office | working |
The FBI Story (1959) | Workers | 2:07:31 - Men leave a factory | factory | flashback | worker | working |
The FBI Story (1959) | The Bureau (Misterioso) | 2:08:47 - FBI agents working on the scene | agent | FBI | flashback | working |
The FBI Story (1959) | Microfilm | 2:09:11 - FBI agents look at the codes on the microfilm | agent | FBI | flashback | lab | microfilm | working |
The FBI Story (1959) | The Bureau (Field Reports) | 2:09:51 - Agents working at FBI headquarters | agent | FBI | flashback | working |
The FBI Story (1959) | The Bureau (Warrants) | 2:11:25 - FBI agents work in an office | agent | FBI | flashback | working |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Work | 0:36:12 - Mildred works as a waitress | hectic | heroine | leading lady | montage | restaurant | rushing | serving | upbeat | voice-over | waitress | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Hopeful) | 0:36:42 - Mildred bakes some pies | cooking | heroine | hopeful | kitchen | leading lady | montage | optimistic | restaurant | success | voice-over | waitress | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | The Maid | 0:36:57 - Mildred's maid in the kitchen | advance plot | comical | conversing | cooking | heroine | kitchen | leading lady | maid | working |
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) | Work (Molto Grazioso) | 0:48:16 - Mildred works at her restaurant | cheerful | friend | heroine | ladder | leading lady | legs | restaurant | transition | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Work (Grand Opening) | 0:57:26 - View of Mildred's restaurant | advance plot | restaurant | upbeat | voice-over | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | T'Ain't No Good | 0:57:37 - Mildred works at the opening of her restaurant | advance plot | antagonist | busy | conversing | daughter | dining | friend | guest | heroine | leading lady | popular music | restaurant | serving | source music | upbeat | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | While You're Away | 0:59:47 - Opening night at Mildred's restaurant | advance plot | antagonist | busy | conversing | daughter | dining | friend | guest | heroine | leading lady | love interest | popular music | restaurant | serving | source music | upbeat | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Work (Success) | 1:01:42 - People working in Mildred's restaurant | advance plot | busy | cook | restaurant | server | upbeat | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Work | 1:08:00 - Montage of restaurants | guest | montage | restaurant | upbeat | voice-over | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Sweepingly) | 1:08:09 - Mildred smiling | happy | heroine | leading lady | montage | restaurant | smiling | voice-over | working |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Clocking out | 1:25:41 - Time card | climax | comical | mickey-mousing | montage | office | salesperson | time card | working |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Fixing the Lights) | 0:23:27 - David tries to fix the lights | advance plot | boy | child | classical music | familiar tune | father | Haydn | helping | hero | home | main theme | mysterious | playful | quotation | working |
We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Lighting the House) | 0:23:40 - David lights candles in the house | advance plot | boy | candle | child | classical music | familiar tune | father | Haydn | helping | hero | home | lighting | main theme | positive | quotation | working |
| Hell’s Highway (1932) | Hikin’ Jerry | 0:00:14 - Main titles and newspaper headlines | call and response | 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 |
| 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 |
