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[pheonix561 2080]

Yeah, that's exactly what I was talking about. I'm impressed you caught that too, I pointed it out to t1g and he thought I was just an idiot.

[Aethix 129]

For further reading...

[Jareddude 62]

I knew I heard that Diddy Kong Racing laugh somewhere xD

LOL

[Young Link Addict 67]

I would've never known. I never played a Star Fox game besides Star Fox 64. Didn't know there were any others.

[Arachne 25]

I get that all the time. Certain sound effects, like smashing pottery, creaking doors, and ricocheting bullets, have become so familiar to me it's a little jarring to hear them when I'm watching a show. Using the Wilhelm Yell is a surefire way to kill a serious mood, but at least that's more of an inside joke than a lack of creativity.

[pheonix561 2080]

Oh my god, the Willhelm yell. Why does that exist, and why is it so popular?

[Chase 390]

The Wilhelm scream is a frequently-used film and television stock sound effect first used in 1951 for the film Distant Drums. The effect gained new popularity (its use often becoming an in-joke) after it was used in Star Wars and many other blockbuster films as well as television programs and video games. The scream is often used when someone is shot, falls from a great height, or is thrown from an explosion.

The sound is named for Private Wilhelm, a character in The Charge at Feather River, a 1953 western in which the character is shot with an arrow. This was believed to be the third movie to use the sound effect and its first use from the Warner Brothers stock sound library.

The sound effect originates from a series of sound effects recorded for the 1951 film Distant Drums. In a scene from the film, soldiers are wading through a swamp in the Everglades, and one of them is bitten and dragged underwater by an alligator. The scream for that scene was recorded later in a single take, along with five other short pained screams, which were slated as "man getting bit by an alligator, and he screams." The fifth scream was used for the soldier in the alligator scene—but the 4th, 5th, and 6th screams recorded in the session were also used earlier in the film—when three Indians are shot during a raid on a fort. Although takes 4 through 6 are the most recognizable, all of the screams are referred to as "Wilhelm", by those in the sound community.

The Wilhelm scream's revival came from motion picture sound designer Benjamin Burtt Jr., who discovered the original recording (which he found as a studio reel labeled "Man being eaten by alligator") and incorporated it into a scene in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Burtt is credited with naming the scream after Private Wilhelm (see The Charge at Feather River). Over the next decade, Burtt began incorporating the effect in other films he worked on, including most projects involving George Lucas or Steven Spielberg. (It is used in all of the Indiana Jones movies.) Other sound designers picked up on the effect, and inclusion of the sound in films became a tradition among the community of sound designers.

Research by Burtt suggests that actor and singer Sheb Wooley, best known for his novelty song "Flying Purple People Eater" in 1958 and as scout Pete Nolan on the television series Rawhide, is likely to have been the voice actor who originally performed the scream. This has been supported by an interview in 2005 with Linda Dotson, Wooley's widow. Burtt discovered records at Warner Brothers from the editor of Distant Drums including a short list of names of actors scheduled to record lines of dialogue for miscellaneous roles in the movie. Wooley played the uncredited role of Private Jessup in Distant Drums, and was one of the few actors assembled for the recording of additional vocal elements for the film. Wooley performed additional vocal elements, including the screams for a man being bitten by an alligator. Dotson confirmed that it was Wooley's scream that had been in so many westerns, adding, "He always used to joke about how he was so great about screaming and dying in films."

The Wilhelm scream has become a well-known cinematic sound cliché, and by 2008 had been used in over 216 movies, television shows and video games. Certain directors, most notably George Lucas include it in almost every one of their productions.

[Jareddude 62]

Working on a picture of Skyward Sword Link

I've suddenly bocame hooked.

[Roc 8]

Now how do you suppose that happened? :J

[Jareddude 62]

I don't know.

[Roc 8]

I don't know.

[Cirt 612]

um so I am trying to find my way around the forums to post in random topics so that I can get 1k today

[Cascade 741]

you go gurl :>

[Cirt 612]

Oh I got this. 6 more!

[Adr990 2]

lolol

I've got 99 more to go for 5k.

The Official 1000th post - by Cirt.