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

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Probably the most commonly used gun sound during the 60's - 80's. This one made its way into just about every high budget production during that time.

This was used in:

Goldfinger - 1964
Thunderball - 1965
Casino Royale - 1966
You Only Live Twice - 1967
Captain Scarlet - 1967 - 1968
Thunderbird 6 - 1968
Joe 90 - 1968 - 1969
The Secret Service - 1969
Crossplot - 1969
UFO - 1970
Hornets Nest - 1970
Waterloo - 1970
The Protectors - 1972 - 1974
Live and Let Die - 1973
The MacKintosh Man - 1973 - Thanks lomaxfellow
The Man With The Golden Gun - 1974
Zardon - 1974 (Thanks lomaxfellow)
Brannigan - 1975
The Land That Time Forgot - 1975 (Thanks kezadrone)
Permission to Kill - 1975 trailer (watch?v=tHrZClv7gk8)
Killer Force - 1976
The Eagle Has Landed - 1976
Space 1999 - 1975 - 1977
The Spy Who Loved Me - 1977
A Bridge Too Far - 1977
Moonraker - 1979
The Passage - 1979
Ffolks (North Sea Hijack) - 1979
Cuba - 1979
Firepower - 1979
The Lady Vanishes - 1979
For Your Eyes Only - 1981
Green Ice - 1981
Death Wish 2 - 1982 - Thanks lenydaga
High Road to China - 1983
Never Say Never Again - 1983
Octopussy - 1983
Top Secret! - 1984
The Jigsaw Man - 1984 (Thanks lomaxfellow)
Lassiter - 1984 (Thanks lomaxfellow)
Terrahawks - Gunfight at Oaky's Corral - 1984
Terrahawks - To Catch A Tiger - 1984
1984 - 1984 (Thanks rjconnolly2nd)
A View To A Kill - 1985
Enemy Mine - 1985
Wild Geese II - 1985
Death Wish 3 - 1985
Terrahawks - Doppelganger - 1985
Terrahawks - Childs Play - 1985
Aliens - 1986
Space Police pilot - 1986 (Thanks thebladezmanII)
Sky Bandits - 1986 (Thanks lomaxfellow)
The Living Daylights - 1987
The Fourth Protocol - 1987 (Thanks lomaxfellow)
Das Rattennest (AKA, A Fathers Revenge - 1988 (Thanks lomaxfellow)
License to Kill - 1989
Batman - 1989
Dead Bang - 1989 (Thanks lomaxfellow)
Dirty Games - 1989 )Thanks lomaxfellow)
The Last of the Finest (AKA Blue Heat) - 1990 (Thanks lomaxfellow)
Hurricane Smith - 1992 (Thanks lomaxfellow)
Freefall - 1994 (Thanks lomaxfellow)
Goldeneye - 1995
Carters Nightmare - 2012 (Thanks Kezadrone)

Assuming that Goldfinger was the 1st time it was used, that would make this recording around 46 years old!. It never ceases to amaze me just how much this sound was used over what amounts to being nearly half a century. As I previously said, this was used a huge number of times so if you've heard this anywhere else, by all means give the name of the film and I'll add it to the listing.

Like many other sounds from Cinesound, this one has a very distinct charm to it that no larger than life pistol or gun sound from any modern sound effects library will ever come close to touching.

My Cinesound Effects Library preservation project can be found at the Fanderson forums:

http://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fredirect%3Fq...

I think this may have originally been recorded from a cannon or a large protectile firing weapon. (Sped up)

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  • 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 ?

  • @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.....

  • 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.

  • @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.

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  • Dirty Games (1989)

  • 1984 (1984)

  • Sky Bandits (1986)

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

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