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The Wilhelm scream has been featured in many films and television programs since. Alongside a certain recording of the cry of the Red-tailed Hawk, the "Universal telephone ring"[1], the Goofy holler, the Tarzan yell and "Castle thunder", it is probably one of the best-known cinematic sound clichés. Binomial name (Gmelin, 1788) The Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) is a medium-sized bird of prey, one of three species colloquially known in the United States as the chickenhawk. ... The Goofy holler is a stock sound effect that turns up frequently in Disney cartoons and films. ... The Tarzan yell is the distinctive, ululating yell of the character Tarzan, as portrayed by actor Johnny Weissmuller in the films based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, starting with Tarzan the Ape Man (1932). ... Castle thunder is the name of a famous sound effect, originally recorded for the 1931 version of Frankenstein, and later used by many, many movies, including Citizen Kane, Cleopatra, The Hindenburg, Ghostbusters, Murder by Death, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Clue, Back to the Future, Big Trouble in Little China, Trading... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

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History

The Wilhelm's revival came from Star Wars series sound designer Ben Burtt, who tracked down the original recording (which he found as a studio reel labelled "Man being eaten by alligator"). Although Distant Drums was the first known use of the sound, Burtt named it after "Pvt. Wilhelm", a minor character who emitted the same scream in the 1953 film The Charge at Feather River. This article is about the series. ... Ben Burtt (born July 12, 1948 in Syracuse, New York) is the archetypal sound designer (a term he invented) and sound editor for many famous and noteworthy films, as well as directing an Oscar-nominated documentary. ... For other uses, see Alligator (disambiguation). ... The Charge at Feather River is a 1953 Western film directed by Gordon Douglas. ...

Usage

The Wilhelm scream is often used for when a character is plummeting to a great distance, usually falling off a ledge. Its use in the Star Wars films was the beginning of something of an in-joke among some sound designers of the film industry, especially at Skywalker Sound, and Weddington Productions (now a division of Technicolor Sound Services). They continued to try to incorporate it into films wherever feasible. An in joke is a joke whose humour is clear only to those people who are in a group that has some prior knowledge (not known by the whole population) that makes the joke humorous. ... Skywalker Sound is the renowned sound effects, sound editorial, sound design and music recording division of George Lucass Lucas Digital motion picture group. ...

Because of the popularity of the sound, people are still finding it in older movies and shows. The following is a list of media that has been found that uses the Wilhelm scream.

Movie franchises

• Indiana Jones films: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Return of the King
• Star Wars films: The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Star Wars: Clone Wars Vol.1 & 2, Revenge of the Sith, A New Hope, The Star Wars Holiday Special, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi

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1950s

• The Command (As an Indian is shot off his horse during an attack the wagon convoy attack)
• The Charge at Feather River (By the character Wilhelm, who gave his name to the scream, and some other characters)
• Distant Drums (The original use of the sound. Used when a character is eaten by an alligator and when three Indians are shot)
• Helen of Troy (1956)
• Land of the Pharaohs (A man is eaten by crocodiles)
• The Sea Chase (1955)
• Spoiler of the Plains (When Gregory Camwell falls from an oil derrick)
• Springfield Rifle (1952)
• A Star Is Born (1954 version with Judy Garland. In the projection room, During the song "Somewhere There's a Someone")
• Them! (A giant ant attacks a boat crew; Also when Sgt. Ben Peterson is killed by an ant; And when a solder is struck by debris in a sewer)

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1960s

• The Green Berets (Before Peterson says "That's what its all about Mr. Beckworth!" Again when the villagers camp is attacked. Finally, you see a soldier pick up a VC and throw him to the ground)
• Harper (Harper (Paul Newman) strikes Pudder (Roy Jenson)in the head with a rasp)
• Impasse (Twice when Morrison (Burt Reynolds) and a thug fall to the bottom of some stairs and off a balcony, during a fight in a warehouse)
• PT 109 (A crew member of PT-109 screams as Japanese destroyer smashes through the patrol boat)
• Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
• The Wild Bunch (A member of the Bunch is shot in the face during the opening scene of the movie)
• Hercules Against the Moon Man (1964)

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1970s

• Chisum (1970)
• Hollywood Boulevard (1976)
• More American Graffiti (1979)
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (A Stormtrooper is shot by Luke and falls down a shaft in the Death Star)
• The Star Wars Holiday Special (A Stormtrooper falls over edge of Chewbacca's family treehouse)
• The Scarlet Blade (1974)
• Shout at the Devil (1976)

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1980s

• Always (1989)
• The Big Brawl (1980)
• The 'Burbs (Hans, when he crashes the ambulance through the door of Art's house)
• Explorers (1985)
• History of the World, Part I (1981)
• Howard the Duck (film) (A duck hunter falls out of a boat shortly before Howard yells, "Banzai!")
• Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (When two Nazi soldiers fall out of the back of a truck)
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (When Indy is pushed into the band-stand in Club Obi-Wan. Again when Indy shoots driver of Lao Che's car. Finally, Mola Ram is eaten by alligators)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (When one soldier is killed with a grenade during the desert chase)
• Poltergeist (After the family eats breakfast, Carol Anne Freeling is watching TV. A soldier dies)
• Spaceballs (Barf uses a section of tubing to reflect four laser bolts back at guards,the fourth one hit screams)
• Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (During the Hoth battle, a turret dish is destroyed. Also, Chewbacca throws a Stormtrooper during the carbonite scene)
• Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (When Luke kills one of Jabba the Hutt's guards (a Weequay) above the Sarlacc Pit. Later, Han throws a bag of charges at an Imperial officer in the Endor bunker, knocking him backwards over a railing. That Imperial officer is sound designer Ben Burtt in a cameo appearance, who did his own impression of the "Wilhelm". In the Special Edition, a Stormtrooper does a Wilhelm while being savaged by a crowd, another occurs after another Weequay is knocked from a barge by Luke Skywalker, and when Boba Fett was knocked onto the Sarlaac)
• Swamp Thing (The swamp thing grabs a thug and tosses him out his speedboat)
• Willow (When the soldiers chariot crashes during chase scene, Also the Brownies trigger a larger spear)

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1990s

• Aladdin (As the villagers flee in terror when the Genie (under jafar's control) lifts the palace into the air)
• Batman Returns (When Batman turns a corner, punches and grabs an enemy and hurls him towards a railing)
• Beauty and the Beast (After Chip says, "You guys got to try this thing", during a fight between the villagers and the household objects)
• Broken Arrow (When Sergeant Kelly falls out of the train)
• Dante's Peak (Dr. Paul Dreyfus falls into the mudflow when the bridge gives way)
• Die Hard: With a Vengeance ({Scream is truncated} John McClane (Bruce Willis) is driving through Central Park and almost hits a mime)
• The Fifth Element (When Leeloo kicks the Mangalores into the hallway during the fight in Plavalaguna's chamber, very faint)
• A Goofy Movie (During the song "On The Open Road", Goofy's car plows through a construction scaffold)
• Gremlins 2 (As a victim is covered in gremlins and he falls off of a ledge)
• Hercules (1997 film) (As the villagers flee in terror when the Cyclops titan first starts crushing buildings looking for Hercules)
• Legion of Iron
• Lethal Weapon 4 (When the flamethrower man in the opening scene flies into the gas truck)
• Matinee (Can be heard a couple of time in the movie within the movie "Mant")
• Mom And Dad Save The World (A Spnego guard is shot in the fortress docking bay, imitation of the sound effect)
• Reservoir Dogs (Mr.Brown is shot in his car, when Mr. Pink pushes someone out of his way while running down the sidewalk)
• Sailor Moon S: The Movie (English dub only; Emitted from random civilian outside restaurant when frozen by a snow dancer)
• The Second Civil War (Vinny Franko is watching an old movie with John Wayne, and John throws a grenade)
• Small Soldiers (many action figures scream Wilhelms when they die)
• Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (Two men are shot in the Naboo hangar. Also, "Trailer B" when a fighter pilot is shot down)
• Toy Story (Buzz Lightyear is knocked out of a window)

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2000s

• 300 (film) (During the rage of Artemis, after the death of Astinos-- very faint)
• 30 Days of Night (film) (When the Vampires pillage the town eating people, an unknown villager falls off the roof)
• Abominable (When Lance Henriksen is killed by Sasquatch)
• Accepted (Heard from a kid as he flies from his skateboard)
• Æon Flux (Aeon shoots a guard off the ledge in the courtyard)
• Agent Cody Banks (As a henchman falls while E.R.I.S. facility is destructing)
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (During the first part of the gang fight, in a lower-than-usual pitch)
• Animatrix (In the episode Matriculated when the sentinels attack the humans in the lab near the end of the film)
• Are We Done Yet? (Nick Persons falls off his ladder {seen in the trailer}. Also Chuck throws a flaming stick that hits someone)
• Blades of Glory (Heard in the trailer when the flaming fountain falls on the eight-ball character - not in the actual film)
• Cradle 2 the Grave
• Cars (film) (When a car is hit by lightning in Lightning McQueen's dream sequence at the beginning of the movie)
• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (Chuck watches TV after returning home from a bar-fight)
• Date Movie (2006)
• Death Proof (Stuntman Mike during the head-on car smash scene)
• Diabolical Tales: Part I (When FBI Agent Thompson is shot with an electro-incinerator)
• D-War (during the battle in the city, a police officer gets bitten by a dragon rider and thrown into a car windscreen)
• DOA: Dead or Alive (As a guard gets kicked off the balcony)
• Fantastic Four (In the final battle after the Thing throws a car at Doctor Doom and a bus is slid in Victor's direction, also shorty after)
• Fun with Dick and Jane (Deleted scene: While robbing a toy store a security guard leaps at Dick, also as the guard is thrown out a window)
• Get Rich or Die Tryin
• The Great New Wonderful (In the soundtrack of an old movie being viewed on a TV by the Brighton Beach couple)
• Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (When Harold and Kumar are riding the cheetah and Harold is hit by a tree branch)
• Hellboy (When a Nazi scientist is sucked into the portal.)
• I Am David
• The Invisible (film) (2007)
• Just Visiting (A knight is hit in the face with an axe)
• The Kid (While Russ is talking to Amy, In a movie that Rusty is watching on TV)
• Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Heard twice during the battle at the House of Blue Leaves)
• King Kong (2005 film) (A sailor is pushed over a cliff by brontosaurus during the stampede)
• Kingdom of Heaven (A Muslim soldier is knocked off from his siege tower when a trebuchet missile hits it)
• The Legend of Suriyothai (A soldier is pulled down from the battlements during an assault on a fortress)
• Life or Something Like It (At the amusement park, a roller coaster flies by)
• The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (2000--Direct to video) (A crew man jumps from the ship just before ice falls on the ship)
• Looney Tunes: Back in Action (When Damian Drake tosses a grenade behind him; the scream is heard when it explodes)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (A Gondorian is dropped by a Nazgûl and a Haradrim is knocked off a mûmakil' by Legolas)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (An Elvish soldier falls off the Deeping Wall)
• Madagascar (film) (When people are fleeing from Alex the Lion in the Grand Central Station)
• The Majestic (When they first test the Majestic's lit sign and it shorts out)
• A Man Apart (In a raid by DEA and Mexican drug agents on a Tijuana nightclub, when one of the agents is hit by gunfire)
• Monster House (film) (During the scary movie Zee and Bone are watching, very faint)
• The Mist (film)
• Norbit (When young Norbit and Kate are watching a scary movie together)
• Once Upon A Time In Mexico (During the motorcycle chase one of the gangsters is hit by an old man in a car)
• Osmosis Jones (Thrax throws someone out of their car)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (A soldier is tossed over the railing when the cursed pirates attack the Interceptor)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Heard when the kraken attacks the Royal Navy ship after Will escapes the crew)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (A monkey explodes a cart in Shanghai. Also, during an explosion in the maelstrom)
• Planet of the Apes (Attar throws Tival down; General Thade hurls two humans into the air at once, later using his helmet, he stabs a human)
• Resident Evil: Extinction (The man who is using the flamethrower when he gets knocked off the top of the truck by the infected ravens)
• The Salton Sea (Kujo (Adam Goldberg) is hit by a ambulance. The Wilhelm is the second scream he makes)
• Saw (film) (In the main room, once Adam wakes up, (faintly) right after first light is turned on)
• Scorched (Shmally crashes her motorcycle in the desert. There is a lot of other noise at the same time so its hard to hear)
• She's the Man (Shortly after Viola enters her brother's dorm, faintly on the TV set)
• Shrek the third (During the scene where the villains fight in the pub,the wilhelm scream can be heard.)
• Sin City (film) (Marv throws a cop out of his squad car while stealing it)
• Sixteen Blocks (Immediately following the bus tire being shot out)
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (During the attack of the giant robots in New York City, a robot squashes a car under its foot)
• Snapphanar (When the Swedes attack the Sandby Castle)
• Star Wars: Clone Wars (Vol. 1) (When the seismic tank fires for the first time. During the shock wave after)
• Star Wars: Clone Wars (Vol. 2) (General Grievous attacks in Palpatine's chambers. Also, when Magna Guards throw clones over an edge)
• Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (The "third scream" is heard as Padmé Amidala's ship explodes in the beginning of the film)
• Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (During the Battle of Coruscant,as a laser cannon explodes a clone trooper is sent flying)
• Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning (When the P-fleet security officers rush to the transport sled, and a babel 13 crewmember is shot.)
• Storm (film) (In the first comic book scene)
• Superman Returns (When the train set in Lex Luthor's basement is destroyed)
• The Simpsons Movie
• Taxi (2004 film) (When the red BMW drives down the sidewalk)
• Team America: World Police (When Gary first walks into the palace and says he has his pass right here, shooting 3 guards)
• Tears of the Sun (After the spy is discovered, two traps are laid and set off. The second trap kills some soldiers)
• Tomcats (Near the end of the film, a cello player at a charity fundraiser screams when Michael (Jerry O'Connell) collides with him)
• Troy (film) During a battle sequence a soldier is hit in the chest with a spear, and screams.
• War of the Worlds (2005 film) (At toward the end of the film when the soldiers take down a tripod, it lands on a soldier)
• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Just after the were-rabbit picks up Lady Tottingham)
• Wet Hot American Summer (During the capture the flag game)
• Win A Date With Tad Hamilton! (When Pete is watching TV and every channel has Tad Hamilton playing, there is a war movie)
• X-Men 3: The Last Stand (Deleted scene: during the final battle when the mutant hanging underneath the scaffolding is shot with a cure dart)

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Television shows

• American Dad (In many episodes: "Pilot", when Stan runs up an escalator in the mall and pushes people out of his way, very faint; Also, "Roger Codger", when an agent at the CIA pulls the pin on a grenade and casually tosses it over his shoulder while in the training room. Also in a later episode as two handicapped Mafia hit men beat up a rival, as well as in "Meter Made" when CIA agents storm an encampment at the end of the episode.)
• Angel (In A New World, when Connor throws a knife into an arm. Also, The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco when a guard is thrown)
• The Batman (Episode The Breakout, When Batgirl and Robin are fighting an organization in an elevator shaft)
• Ben Ten: Race Against Time (In the trailer when Heatblast fires a firebolt into a croud of robbers)
• Chuck (In the episode "Chuck Versus the Truth" after Sarah shoots Kevin Weisman's character in the knee)
• CSI: New York (In the episode Grand Master where Mack and Aiden are on a fire escape. In a possible flashback of the murder)
• Class of 3000 (In the episode "Too Cool for School", when liquid carbonite falls on Mr. Bore)
• Doctor Who (During the "TARDISODE" for the 2006 episode "Tooth and Claw", a man is attacked by a werewolf)
• Drawn Together (In the episode "Dirty Pranking No. 2" when someone gets blasted with a robo-fly's raygun, in "The Lemon-AIDS Walk" when Captain Hero takes steroids, in "A Very Special Drawn Together Afterschool Special" during a barroom brawl, and in "The Drawn Together Clip Show" when the Producer opens fire on the audience)
• Family Guy (In many episodes: "North by North Quahog" During the car chase through the mall. Also "The Perfect Castaway" Peter recalls trying to go back to the past by driving de lorean through a wall. Also "No Chris Left Behind", When a pilot is thrust out of his plane during the third duel between Peter Griffin and the Giant Chicken. Also "Blue Harvest" When a Death star tower is blown up)
• The Girls Next Door (Mutiny on the booty, During the montage while holly describes the trouble with her photo shoot)
• Invasion (When a man is thrown over the edge of a pier during the series finale {May 2006})
• Island of Assassins (When Ellen is fighting in the opening scene (very faint). Only in the FUNimation dub)
• The League of Gentlemen (On the main menu of the second series DVD, accompanied by the show's theme tune)
• The Life and Times of Juniper Lee (In almost any, if not every, episode)
• Macross (In the episode "Blind Game" when Hikaru Ichijyo takes down a group of Zentradi police officers. Only in the ADV Films dub)
• Masters of Horror (Episode 6, "Homecoming". Death scream of one of the zombies)
• Primeval (In the first episode, after the Spatial anomaly closes and the Gorgonopsid is chasing the team. It was also used twice in episode two, appeared on the episode three trailer, and in episode 6 when one of the Captain Ryan's soldiers is killed by the predator)
• Ranma ½ (Episode "Enter Ryoga! The Eternal Lost Boy", as Ryoga goes down a "straight" path, he runs into a forest, 3rd variation)
• Squirrel Boy (In the episode "Don't Cross Here" heard in the educational film)
• The Venture Bros. (In Tag Sale – You're It!, when #21 confronts Brock Samson, {very faint}. Also in Hate Floats when The Monarch, Dr. Venture and the henchmen come out of the door just before the closing credits. Also, I Know Why the Caged Bird Kills when the Monarch and his henchmen mistakingly raid an office)
• X-files (In the season 7 episode "Chimera", just after the second death, the smoking man is watching a movie)
• TVNZ documentary The Big Picture part two during the battle between Maori and Able Tasman 1642

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Video games

• Call of Duty 2: Big Red One
• Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (Occasionally when killing infantry)
• Daleks vs. Cybermen (A game based on Doctor Who episode "Doomsday." By humans "deleted" by the player-controlled Cybermen) [1]
• Eragon: Video Game (Demo: When Brom shoots the ropes holding the gate up and the gate collapses)
• The Game of Life PC game (When "TOO BAD!" appears on a calculator on a "Taxes Due" space)
• Ghost Recon: Advanced War Fighter (Sometimes be heard if an enemy is killed by an explosion)
• God of War (When you kill the man holding the bridge on the Rooftops of Athens. Other various occasions)
• God of War 2
• Jak X: Combat Racing (Very faintly in the opening cinematic, just before Jak drives through the fish tank)
• Lego Star Wars: The Video Game (From Obi-Wan or Anakin when the player dies during the Space Battle Over Coruscant level)
• Lost Planet (Various times)
• Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault (During the opening Tarawa battle and during the strafing of the Pearl Harbor docks near the CINCPAC HQ)
• Metal Slug
• Neverwinter Nights II (Various times)
• Ratchet and Clank (All of the Ratchet games apart from Deadlocked, if you fall into one of the game's many abysses and fissions)
• Republic Commando (During the Geonosis battle in the first mission, in the background several times)
• Return of the King (video game)
• Scarface: The World is Yours (Tony Montana emits what sounds like a Wilhelm Scream when he gets eaten by a shark)
• Spider-Man 2 (For DS, when an enemy is thrown off a building; also when a lamp falls on a spectator during the nuclear fusion cutscene)
• Star Wars: Battlefront II (Various times)
• Star Wars: Bounty Hunter (When an enemy falls off a ledge and in the second ILM made cutscene)
• Star Wars Episode III (Twice during the Battle of Utapau, a clone trooper is killed by a battle droid; another battle droid is shocked)
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II (Various times)
• Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (When killing most ground troops (storm troopers, snow troopers, sand people etc)
• SWAT 4 (Sometimes when the VIP is killed in the "VIP Escort" multiplayer mode)
• Tony Hawk's Project 8 (Heard on one of the roller coasters in the theme park)
• Team Fortress 2 (In the second released trailer, a character runs over some dynamite. Also, a group of soldiers is killed by a turret)
• World Championship Poker 2: Featuring Howard Lederer: (Players leaving an online game scream)

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Internet videos

• 4chan's Flash (Introduction shown at Otakon 2006 contains an Apple IIe user who is strangled by Longcat)
• Pink Five (A ship explodes in the background)
• Pitching Lucas (When one of the executive falls off the trap door to rancor pit)
• Return of Pink Five (When an AT-ST driver is thrown off his AT-ST by Chewbacca)
• Star Wars The Assassin (One of the imperial police is killed by assassin's blaster)

Pink Five is a fan film that made its debut on the internet in 2002, created by fans of the Star Wars franchise. ... A sequel to the fan films Pink Five and Pink Five Strikes Back, Return of Pink Five continues the adventures of Stacey (Pink Five) around the edges of the original Star Wars trilogy. ...

Music

• Elvenking (On the album Heathenreel, at the beginning of the song "Conjuring the 14th")
• Jurassic Park (song) (When two dinosaurs fight over a hapless victim)
• That Calls for a Wilhelm Scream (Is a song performed by the band Possible Oscar on The FuMP[2])

Elvenking can refer to either of the following: The Elvenking, also known as Thranduil - A character from J. R. R. Tolkiens Middle-earth. ... Jurassic Park is a song by Weird Al Yankovic. ...

Short Films

• Lifted (At the end during the credits, when the boy falls)
• Runaway Brain (When Mickey's video game character dies)
• Your Freind the Rat (Astronaut on Mars)

Lifted may mean: Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground, an album by Bright Eyes Lifted, a 1988 American film starring Erika Anderson, Paul Gleason, and Orestes Matacena Lifted (film), a 2006 Pixar computer animated short Lifted (music collective) Category: ... Runaway Brain is an Academy Award nominated 7-minute animated short-subject produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation Paris, and starring Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. ... For other uses, see Ratatouille (disambiguation). ...

See also

• Tarzan yell
• Goofy holler
• Castle thunder

The Tarzan yell is the distinctive, ululating yell of the character Tarzan, as portrayed by actor Johnny Weissmuller in the films based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, starting with Tarzan the Ape Man (1932). ... The Goofy holler is a stock sound effect that turns up frequently in Disney cartoons and films. ... Castle thunder is the name of a famous sound effect, originally recorded for the 1931 version of Frankenstein, and later used by many, many movies, including Citizen Kane, Cleopatra, The Hindenburg, Ghostbusters, Murder by Death, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Clue, Back to the Future, Big Trouble in Little China, Trading...

References

• Wilhelm Scream origin and history on HollywoodLostAndFound.net (cached version)
• Times article in which Sheb Wooley's widow states her belief that her husband was the man behind the scream
• Radio report about the Wilhelm scream, with transcript and audio examples of uses of the scream
• Film Sound Clichés at FilmSound.org

External links

• The Wilhelm Scream in .wav sound format
• The Wilhelm Scream Compilation
• Films with the keyword "Wilhelm Scream" at the Internet Movie Database
• A French Podcast of selected Wilhelm Screams
• YouTube Compilation
• Tube Daze: Episode #14 Tube Daze Animation Studios. Submarine humor.
• Collegehumor.com Compilation