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Creative Pictures Studios

Soundtracks

by Mark Gottlieb
Answer: 🧚

Each cryptolist contains five songs with nonsense titles. The movie header provides a light clue to their nature.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

(Nonsense titles whose last word is repeated)
DA DOO RON RON (The Crystals)
LF LJJ TJS TJS

DO WAH DIDDY DIDDY (Manfred Mann)
LJ CFA LQLLG LQLLG

DE DO DO DO, DE DA DA DA (The Police)
LZ LJ LJ LJ, LZ LF LF LF 

PAPA-OOM-MOW-MOW (The Rivingtons)
WFWF-JJH-HJC-HJC

EEP OPP ORK AH-AH (Jet Screamer)
ZZW JWW JTD FA-FA

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

(Song titles made of individual nonsense syllables)
VOO-VEE-AH-BEE (The Platters)
QWW-QLL-ZO-VLL

MY COO CA CHOO (Alvin Stardust)
TF XWW XZ XOWW

MAH NA MAH NA (Pierro Umiliani)
TZO GZ TZO GZ

OB-LA-DI, OB-LA-DA (The Beatles)
WV-DZ-IB, WV-DZ-IZ

OOH POO PAH DOO (Jessie Hill)
WWO UWW UZO IWW

Frankenweenie

(Really long nonsense titles, perhaps portmanteau-ish)
CHARMICARMICAT (Melvins)
ACUIONAUIONAUR

HYPERBOLICSYLLABICSESQUEDALYMISTIC (Isaac Hayes)
CKSWIQFGNAXKGGUQNAXWXLZWTUGKONXRNA

RIPOPGODAZIPPA (Prince)
INSFSHFTUPNSSU

EARSCHPLITTENLOUDENBOOMER (Steppenwolf)
WUIXACSGNRRWJGFZTWJQFFOWI

SUPERFUNKYCALIFRAGISEXY (Prince)
XZSWIMZJVKAUGNMIUHNXWYK

High School High

(Nonsense titles with repeated elements)
NEE NEE NA NA NA NA NU NU (Dicky Doo and the Don’ts)
CKK CKK CM CM CM CM CX CX

CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP (Lally Stott)
ELQFBV ELQFBV ELKKB ELKKB

IP DIP CHIBBERDY DIP (Frank Carson)
QB UQB ELQYYKFUV UQB

OOH-WAKKA-DOO-WAKKA-DAY (Gilbert O’Sullivan)
SSL-ZMIIM-USS-ZMIIM-UMV

DUM DUM DIDDLE (ABBA)
UXJ UXJ UQUUWK

Hocus Pocus

(Nonsense titles with two words that rhyme)
TUTTI FRUTTI (Little Richard)
GZGGU AXZGGU

OOCHIE COOCHIE (M.C. Brains)
JJVQUM VJJVQUM

WAKA/JAWAKA (Frank Zappa)
NYRY TYNYRY

CHACARRON MACARRON (El Chombo feat. Andy Val Gourmet)
VQYVYXXJF KYVYXXJF

RAMA LAMA DING DONG (The Edsels)
XYKY IYKY WUFC WJFC

Jumanji

(Short single-word nonsense titles)
ZABADAK! (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich)
BGTGNGW!

MMMBOP (Hanson)
HHHTLE

SUSSUDIO (Phil Collins)
KDKKDNXL

BAWITDABA (Kid Rock)
TGCXRNGTG

BARABAJAGAL (Donovan)
TGZGTGAGJGY

The Sound of Music

(Nonsense titles that are supposed to sound like other words)
MAIRZY DOATS (Al Trace and his Silly Symphonists)
FWKGNU SRWMB
(“Mares eat oats”)

IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA (Iron Butterfly)
KX-W-TWSSW-SW-PKSW
(“In the Garden of Eden”)

DO-WACKA-DO (Roger Miller)
SR-LWHJW-SR
(“Do like I do”)

D’YER MAK’ER (Led Zeppelin)
S’UQG FWJ’QG
(This is Led Zeppelin’s reggae-ish song, and the title is
intended to sound like “Jamaica” when pronounced with an
English accent)

PRISENCOLINENSINAINCIUSOL (Adriano Celentano)
YGKBQXHRVKXQXBKXWKXHKCBRV
(This song, by an Italian singer, is intended to sound to its
Italian audience as if it is sung in English spoken with an
American accent, but the lyrics are deliberately unintelligible gibberish.)

Wordplay

(Nonsense titles that have some kind of logological element)
THELA HUN GINJEET (King Crimson)
JDYKO DLG TQGNYYJ
(An anagram of “heat in the jungle”)

TZIMA N’ARKI (Eno, Moebius, and Roedelius)
JPQUO G’OBHQ
(This song’s lyrics are all written backwards. “Emoc ylerus 
lliw ti, emoc lliw ti, emoc lliw ti…” I suspect the title is also
backwards, but haven’t been able to decode it.)

SWLABR (Cream)
VIKOFB
(An initialism for “She Walks Like a Bearded Rainbow”)

EFILNIKUFESIN (N.F.L.) (Anthrax)
YWQKGQHLWYVQG (G.W.K.)
(Read it backwards)

CHANA IN DE BUSHWOP (Frank Zappa)
ZDOGO QG RY FLVDIMC
(A slurred spoonerism variant of “bull in the china shop”)

Put the strips in alphabetical order of the ciphertext letters that decode to A and you get the fairy from Zelda (8-bit):

The answer is the :FAIRY: emoji, 🧚.