| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Night Watchman | 0:44:29 - Watchman arrives at the store | darkness | dissonant bass | flashlight | guard | half-diminished 7th chord | keys | mysterious | opening | robbery | store | suspenseful | walking | working |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Walking | 0:44:39 - The watchman walks | augmented sixth chord | darkness | flashlight | guard | half-diminished 7th chord | 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 | augmented sixth chord | 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 | augmented major 7th chord | chromatic parallelism | criminal | dissonant bass | doctor | examining | gangster | leading man | ostinato | pc set | robbery | rooftop | tense | thief | underscoring | walking | working |
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) | Lighting the Torch + The Motor | 0:51:05 - Butch prepares the torch | anxious | chromatic scale | combination of themes | criminal | dramatic | fire | flame | gangster | hero | lighting | ostinato | preparing | rescuing | robbery | sequence | 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 | foreign key modulation | headline | leading man | main title | marching | montage | mug shot | newspaper | prison | prisoner | reformatory | sequence | serious | working |
| City for Conquest (1940) | Googi (Dead Man) | 1:15:09 - They pull out the dead man | car | conversing | corpse | criminal | disposing | dock | gangster | manager | murderer | murder scene | ominous | tense | working |
City for Conquest (1940) | Googi (Molto Mysterioso e Screwyoso) | 1:15:19 - Cobb sees the gun | car | conversing | corpse | criminal | disposing | dock | gangster | manager | murderer | murder scene | ominous | tense | working |
| Crime School (1938) | Gangster Blues (Painting) | 0:50:45 - The boys paint their room | 13th chord | added-note chord | altered dominant | 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 | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | dissonant bass | fanfare | gang | heroic | reformatory | teenager | working |
Crime School (1938) | Gangster Blues (Mechanical) | 0:54:46 - Boys get to work | 13th chord | action scene | added-note chord | altered dominant | boiler room | coal | danger | fire | fire | frantic | gang | gauge | heat | hurrying | mechanical | reformatory | sequence | 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 | linear chromaticism | mechanical | pc set | reformatory | shoveling | teenager | temperature | tense | tone cluster | 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 - A young man whistles | establish character | jaunty | on-screen music | ranch | source music | teenager | whistling | working |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | Date picking | 0:25:21 - Boys picking dates | 9th chord | establish character | light | ranch | sequence | step modulation | teenager | working |
They Made Me a Criminal (1939) | The Ladder | 0:30:11 - Tommy sitting on a ladder | cheerful | chromatic scale | common-tone diminished 7th | conflict | diminished 7th chord | dissonant bass | fun | ladder | pedal tone | ranch | teenager | working |
| Dust Be My Destiny (1939) | Buzzing | 1:01:05 - Men working in the dark room | 64 chord | action scene | added-note chord | buzzy | chromatic parallelism | dark room | enharmonic modulation | exciting | foreign key modulation | leading man | mode mixture | Neapolitan | newspaper | newspaper editor | parallelism | photographer | photography | pump-up modulation | 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 |
| Flamingo Road (1949) | Boldon City | 0:01:13 - Boldon City sign | busy | common-tone diminished 7th | dominant pedal | establish setting | light | pentatonic | street | townsfolk | voice-over | working |
Flamingo Road (1949) | Cheatin' on Me | 0:19:12 - Lane works at the café | AABA structure | advance plot | café | leading lady | leading man | leaving | police | source music | upbeat | waitress | working |
Flamingo Road (1949) | If I Could Be With You (Triste) | 0:34:51 - Lane goes to the kitchen | breakup | café | dark | diminished 7th chord | foreign key modulation | leading lady | pondering | somber | waitress | working |
| In This Our Life (1942) | Asa | 0:02:02 - The Timberlake crest | establish character | noble | street | worker | working |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Work | 0:36:12 - Mildred works as a waitress | hectic | heroine | leading lady | montage | restaurant | rushing | self-borrowing | 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 | self-borrowing | 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 | self-borrowing | transition | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Work (Grand Opening) | 0:57:26 - View of Mildred's restaurant | advance plot | restaurant | self-borrowing | upbeat | voice-over | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | T'Ain't No Good | 0:57:37 - Mildred 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 - Monte arrives at the 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 work in Mildred's restaurant | advance plot | busy | cook | restaurant | self-borrowing | server | upbeat | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Work | 1:08:00 - Montage of restaurants | guest | montage | restaurant | self-borrowing | upbeat | voice-over | working |
Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Sweepingly) | 1:08:09 - Mildred greets customers | happy | heroine | leading lady | montage | restaurant | smiling | voice-over | working |
| The Life of Vergie Winters (1934) | Lullaby (Slowly) | 0:04:07 - Vergie working in a shop window | 64 chord | establish character | leading lady | peaceful | plagal cadence | shop | working |
| The Unfaithful (1947) | Clocking out | 1:25:41 - Time card | climax | comical | mickey-mousing | montage | office | saleswoman | time card | working |
| We Are Not Alone (1939) | Surprise Symphony (Fixing the Lights) | 0:23:27 - David tries to fix the lights | 11th chord | advance plot | boy | child | classical music | familiar tune | father | foreign key modulation | fragmentation | Haydn | helping | hero | home | 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 | chromatic sequence | classical music | dissonant bass | familiar tune | father | Haydn | helping | hero | home | lighting | positive | quotation | working |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| The Breaking Point (1950) | Flor de Lis | 0:08:17 - A ship sailing | art song | boat | boat | boating | conversing | establish setting | flirting | floozy | leading lady | leading man | not by Steiner | sailor | upbeat | working |
The Breaking Point (1950) | En Mi Canto de Amor | 0:08:57 - A dock at night | arriving | art song | boat | conversing | docking | establish setting | flirting | floozy | harbor | leading lady | leading man | not by Steiner | sailor | source music | upbeat | working |
The Breaking Point (1950) | La Adelita | 0:09:56 - A Mexican village at night | arriving | bar | bartender | conversing | establish setting | folk music | leading man | musician | on-screen music | performing | sailor | salesperson | selling | source music | street | upbeat | working |
The Breaking Point (1950) | Humming | 0:54:33 - Wesley and Harry work on the boat | arriving | calm | criminal | friend | harbor | humming | leading man | on-screen music | sailor | source music | transition | walking | working |
| Deep Valley (1947) | Libby 2 (Stormy) | 0:35:27 - Waves hitting the shore | conflict | construction site | crew | dark | leading lady | leaving | mother | pleading | storm | tense | waves | working |
Deep Valley (1947) | Love Theme (Full) | 0:46:30 - Barry and Libby by the lake | calm | conversing | convict | falling in love scene | forest | fugitive | laughing | leading lady | leading man | working |
Deep Valley (1947) | Law (Working) | 1:44:28 - Libby looks at the worksite | calm | construction site | dog | leading lady | resolution | watching | worker | working |
| The Woman in White (1948) | Balmy Porter | 1:33:09 - A man locks the gate of the asylum | asylum | comedy | comical | key | shuffling | street | walking | worker | working |
The Woman in White (1948) | One, Two, Buckle My Shoe | 1:33:39 - The porter takes keys off of the wall | accompanied source music | asylum | comedy | comical | key | nursery rhyme | on screen music | singing | worker | working |
The Woman in White (1948) | Balmy Porter | 1:33:49 - The porter walks away | asylum | comedy | comical | key | maid | shuffling | walking | worker | working |
The Woman in White (1948) | Underscoring (Dark) | 1:34:10 - A patient in the asylum | asylum | comedy | key | ominous | patient | shuffling | underscoring | walking | worker | working |
The Woman in White (1948) | One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (Shuffling Around) | 1:34:17 - The porter continues his work | accompanied source music | asylum | comedy | comical | key | nursery rhyme | on screen music | shuffling | walking | worker | working |
The Woman in White (1948) | Ann (Sleeping) | 1:34:27 - Laura in her bed in the asylum | asylum | comedy | dark | key | leading lady | mysterious | patient | sleeping | victim | wife | worker | working |
| Beyond the Forest (1949) | Moose | 0:11:22 - Moose enters the house | cabin | conversing | establish character | exotic | friend | leading lady | liquor | wife | working |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Grazioso) | 0:15:01 - Rosa enters the lodge | advance plot | arriving | cheerful | leading lady | room | wife | working |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Hurrying | 0:15:09 - Rosa lights a fire | advance plot | hurrying | leading lady | room | upbeat | wife | working |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Grazioso) | 0:15:23 - Rosa gets a drink | advance plot | hurrying | leading lady | room | upbeat | wife | working |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Hurrying | 0:15:35 - Rosa carries a drink | advance plot | hurrying | leading lady | room | upbeat | wife | working |
Beyond the Forest (1949) | Rosa (Sombre) | 1:17:53 - Lewis talks to a patient | advance plot | conversing | doctor | leading man | mysterious | office | patient | working |
| We're Only Human (1935) | Old Lavender (Gentle) | 0:22:34 - A man scoops up some pasta | 64 chord | advance plot | altered dominant | buying | detective | food | leading lady | leading man | love interest | ordering | peaceful | pedal tone | reporter | store | worker | working |
We're Only Human (1935) | Old Lavender | 0:22:44 - Packaged-up food | 9th chord | added-note chord | advance plot | altered dominant | buying | common-chord modulation | detective | direct modulation | food | harmonic sequence | leading lady | leading man | light | love interest | optimistic | ordering | reporter | store | worker | working |
We're Only Human (1935) | Old Lavender (Celeste Solo) | 0:23:14 - Pete and Sally buying food | advance plot | buying | detective | direct modulation | food | leading lady | leading man | love interest | ordering | peaceful | reporter | store | street | worker | working |
| Her Kind of Man (1946) | Scrapbook | 0:00:59 - A busy newsroom | bluesy | journalist | room | transition | voice-over | working |
Her Kind of Man (1946) | You Do Something to Me | 0:02:52 - A night club | celebrating | club | conversing | dancing | establish character | flashback | mickey-mousing | on-screen music | playing | popular music | ripple effect | source music | upbeat | working |
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