Pistol sounds used in many films from the 60's - early 90's Vol 1 (Cinesound)

[lomaxfellow]

Dirty Games (1989)

[rjconnolly2nd]

1984 (1984)

[lomaxfellow]

Sky Bandits (1986)

[lomaxfellow]

Dead Bang (1989): As a shotgun (believe it or not).

[kezadrone]

Another movie these were used in was the 70's film THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT. with Doug McClure. There's the first sound during a fight in some woods with cave men. The sound effect is all there with no background noise. 

[kezadrone]

Is there a name for this sound effect as I suppose you'd need to call it something to request a use in a picture. Like the whilhelm screem ?

[jamesuk9999]

@kezadrone

From what I've looked up online, Cinesound unlike the libraries available over at sounddogs and sound-effects-library*.com were never publicly available (mainly down to the fact that they were stored on analog tapes and were'nt transferred to digital format). With this in mind, it doesn't really have a name per say although given the fact that it was used in a large variety of films over many years, I'd have no reason to doubt that it had an inside name of some kind.....

[lomaxfellow]

Sorry! I forgot to say "The MacKintosh Man", "The Jigsaw Man", "Lassiter" and "The Fourth Protocol." Strangely, it was also used in a video trailer for "Midnight Run" but unfortunately not in the film.

Are these sounds copyrighted? I'm gonna be working on a few independent films and really wanted to use them. I've been fascinated by these sounds since I was around 7 when all I would watch were the Roger Moore Bond films.

[jamesuk9999]

@lomaxfellow

It kind of depends really...... You see, you can't comercially get these sounds any more as they were bought in an auction and were effectively locked away. One of the conditions the buyer had to abide by was that the masters were not to be played outside of his hom or whereever they're being stored. As clean as these sound, they were not sourced from the master tapes/reels. I can't really see it being a problem providing you dont use them commercially so to speak.

[kezadrone]

@lomaxfellow You won't get into trouble for using them. They would only cost you about 20p anyway. I used this one in my last film. I see what you mean though it gets attention and adds a load of class to a gun fight.

[lomaxfellow]

PS It was also used in "A Father's Revenge" (or Das Rattennest) and also briefly in "The Last of the Finest" both with Brian Dennehy.

[lomaxfellow]

I LOVE this gun sound/

[lenydaga]

This is my favorite gun sound from all the classic Bond films......

also, I think they used this on Charles Bronson's Death Wish II back in the early 80s

[SpartanForgeWorld300]

good sfx to use if ur making a home movie.