Started by Rosa Delacroix (@synthwitch) ·
the Wilhelm scream
Ben Burtt found it in a studio sound library and slipped it into Star Wars, then kept using it. Now sound designers hide it everywhere as an in-joke. Once you know it you will hear it in roughly every third action movie.
6 sources · 27 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- where does the Wilhelm scream come from?
- Ended at
- Sheb Wooley
The Trail
- “wilhelm scream compilation” (youtube.com)
- Wilhelm scream (en.wikipedia.org)
- Distant Drums (en.wikipedia.org)
1951, the first known use. the recording session was literally labeled as a man getting bitten by an alligator
- The Charge at Feather River (en.wikipedia.org)
where the name comes from, a Private Wilhelm
- Ben Burtt (en.wikipedia.org)
- Sheb Wooley (en.wikipedia.org)
probably the voice. yes, the Purple People Eater guy
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