The Wilhelm Scream is a stock sound effect first used in the 1951 “Distant Drums.” Wikipedia calls it the “most well known cinematic sound cliches.” It was revived for the Star Wars and Indiana Jones series.
Here’s a video collage of some classic movies using the Whilhelm scream. To download the scream click here. Let me know if you use it in a short amateur video. Let’s bring it to viral videos, eh?
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This is one of the few videos that gets funny as it goes along.
I tried to download the scream from Wilhelm entry on Wikipedia but it’s an OGG file… I wanted to see if I could sneak it into a video or two.
This Wikipedia article is both informative and interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream
I had to go check to make sure you weren’t pulling our legs.
Arrrrrrrrrrghhhhh!
Thanks for the link from your site and thanks for the Wikipedia source. I should have linked it. At any one point I have 19 browsers open and then I close one and lose a link forever.