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When I've come across stage musicals, I've always uploaded individual songs under the name of the musical (e.g. Bandanna Land https://imslp.org/wiki/Bandanna_Land_(C ... ll_Marion), which had multiple creators).

With the opening of 1929, sound film become more of an option. My personal feeling is that all the songs from a particular film (even if they have different creators) should be under the name of the film. A hasty look at what has already been uploaded shows this is not the case. In general (and in contradistinction to my personal feelings), I sense that people who will be looking for popular songs probably won't look under the original source film, and in many (most?) cases, are probably not even aware of song's original source. Thus that is an argument for simply listing the songs under the composer.

Any preferences?

The correct answer is to go with the normal bibliographical practice (how do these get represented wrt uniform titles?).

My impression, honestly, would be that songs written for a movie's soundtrack might sometimes be correctly listed as separate works. This is because, in many cases, there is no unified full score from which they would be considered extracted — unlike songs from a musical (or published incidental music), which are just selections from a larger vocal score.