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Balloon Headed Boy (With Wilhelm Screams)

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Uploaded by on Apr 7, 2006

Made by me and some kids in a summer media arts camp I run. The "Wilhelm Scream"

The Wilhelm scream is a stock sound effect first used in 1951 for the movie Distant Drums. It has been featured in dozens of movies since. Alongside a certain recording of the cry of the Red-tailed Hawk, the "Universal telephone ring" [1] and "castle thunder," it is probably the most well-known cinematic sound cliché.

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 labeled "Man being eaten by alligator"). He named it after Wilhelm, a minor character who emitted the scream in the 1953 movie The Charge at Feather River. Its use in the Star Wars films was the beginning of something of an in-joke amongst some sound designers of the film industry, especially at Skywalker Sound. They continue to try to incorporate it into movies wherever feasible; action movies are naturals, but film sound cognoscenti are particularly impressed when it is used naturally in films such as A Star Is Born (with Judy Garland) and A Goofy Movie. In a tribute to its origins, the clip was used in the film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom when the villain Mola Ram was eaten by alligators. It was also used in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade when an ambusher was killed during the attack on the German convoy.

Sheb Wooley is considered by many to be the most likely voice actor for the scream, having appeared on a memo as a voice extra for Distant Drums.

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  • Where did you get the Wilhelm Scream sound clip???

  • Hmm.. I think we just Googled "Wilhelm Scream.mp3" or .wav or something similar.  It's been a few years! It shouldn't be hard to find.

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  • wtf.

  • that has got to be one of the scariest things i've ever seen!!! LOL still favorited.

  • i remember this sound used in lord of the rings and star wars when some guy falls off a high place

  • does anybody know about a typical woman scream that appears in some movies and in some cartoons?

    what is the name of it?

    greetings

  • wtf ?

  • the info is just a copy/paste of the wikipedia page. and this video is stupid.

  • I love to sing-ah

  • Stop mentioning that God-forbidden site or else!

  • That's really creepy!!! It freaked me right out

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