| All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | The Duchess (Expressivo con Schmalzo) | 0:39:24 - The Duchess writes a letter | angry | crying | despair | duchess | leading lady | mad scene | on-screen text | room | writing |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Desperation | 0:39:54 - The Duchess writes a letter | angry | crying | despair | duchess | leading lady | mad scene | on-screen text | room | writing |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Mysterioso) | 1:42:50 - An apartment building | double exposure | letter | montage | room | somber | writing |
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) | Henriette (Moderato Maestoso) | 2:16:29 - A hand signing a release form | hopeful | leading lady | leaving | noble | prison | resolution | walking | writing |
| Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) | The Gangster (Maestoso) | 0:08:07 - Discharge papers from the penitentiary | common-chord modulation | common-tone diminished 7th | ledger | main title | marching | mickey-mousing | montage | prison | prisoner | serious | solemn | transition | writing |
| The Big Sleep (1946) | Chevalier Audubon | 0:13:14 - Marlowe writes on note card | advance plot | heroic | leading man | library | private eye | researching | writing |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Marlowe (Molto Misterioso) | 0:13:20 - Marlowe goes to talk to librarian | advance plot | leading man | library | mysterious | private eye | researching | writing |
The Big Sleep (1946) | Underscoring (Tense) | 0:28:58 - Marlowe tries to crack the code | leading man | private eye | researching | room | tense | threat | transition | tritone | writing |
| Death of a Scoundrel (1956) | Clementi C (Plotting) | 0:27:54 - Clementi buys 20,000 stocks for a drug | flashback | notepad | stock market | stock tip | writing |
| I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Family (Writing) | 0:26:15 - Matt writes a letter to his son | letter | love | writing |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Family B | 0:26:45 - Matt writes a letter to his son | letter | love | writing |
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) | Family (Writing) | 0:27:11 - Matt finishes his letter | letter | love | writing |
| Mildred Pierce (1945) | Mildred (Lonely) | 0:28:20 - Mildred looks through her desk | advance plot | bills | flashback | gun | heroine | leading lady | lonely | photographs | room | somber | voice-over | writing |
| White Heat (1949) | Mirror | 1:34:10 - Hank writes out a quick message on the mirror | bathroom | gas station | hurrying | mirror | washroom | writing |
White Heat (1949) | Mirror | 1:34:34 - Hank finishes writing on the mirror and covers up the message with his jacket | bathroom | gas station | hurrying | mirror | washroom | writing |
White Heat (1949) | Message On the Mirror | 1:34:49 - Camera focuses in on the written message on the mirror | bathroom | gas station | mirror | radio signal | washroom | writing |
