War of the Worlds death ray sound effect in other films
Today I watched the godawful 1964 film Monstrosity (aka The Atomic Brain). A scientist restores life to corpses with lab equipment which emits the sound effect used for the war machine's death ray in...
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I think the sound is simply a single string of a guitar or something, being aggressively plucked again and again.
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I didn't know about the Jerry Lewis usage, never having seen The Stooge. The sound isn't in Robinson Crusoe on Mars, is it?
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I can't remember if the sound was used in MARS ATTACKS, but I had a toy saucer from the film that used it.
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It's also used as a sound effect on the first Jefferson Starship album, BLOWS AGAINST THE EMPIRE, as part of a sci-fi suite that was actually nominated for a Hugo Award in 1970. Ann Robinson's line...
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Quote:I think the sound is simply a single string of a guitar or something, being aggressively plucked again and again. I would guess it's more of a synth sound they mixed in the studio or even more,...
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I`ve heard it in other films but can not remember which ones. THE STOOGE was released the year before WotW by the same studio. So the sound debuted before WofW."Of course I had to get rid of the eye."
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THE STOOGE was premiered on New Years Eve of '52. WotW was reviewed by the press in February, so I imagine their productions were side-by-side.J. Theakston The Central Theater, Passaic, NJ
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Just thinking about this... y'know what it kinda sounds like? The ignition of a car which isn't turning over... maybe accellerated or goosed up somehow.
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Oh-oh. All along in this thread, I thought we were talking about the bmmm-bmmm-bmmm-bmmm-bmmm build-up to the death ray. Sorry! THAT'S the sound I thought was a guitar string (or something).
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It's re-used by the robots in SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW.
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Quote:What do you suppose is more likely, that the actual recording got reused by other film makers, or that they're imitating or recreating the sound? It is most likely that it is a copy of the...
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Fascinating stuff, Stephen. Thanks. Quote:The creepy wind which added such a great deal of atmosphere to the film "Them!" was in the library and was described as 'Howling Wind'. I LOVE that wind...
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I think of it as "total THEM!" also -- so it was weird to find myself hearing that exact same wind sound effect in the 1930s British-made Warners film THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT with Ernest Thesiger!
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Yeah, I know. I'm sure I've heard it in other films. I wonder if it's used in Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, Tarantula, It Came From Outer Space, The Thing, The Abominable Snow Man, The Crawling Eye, The...
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<< An editor on the first "Star Wars", whose name escapes me, actually tried to capture, in new recordings, the original character of many of the, now considered, classic sound effects. >>...
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Quote:Ben Burtt, the sound designer on the Star Wars films, mentions something about this on one of the commentary tracks of the more recent films (maybe Attack of the Clones). Thanks, that's the guy....
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The 'death ray' was also used in "The Colossus of New York" for the Colossus' eye beams (a curious design choice by the scientists I would say)."I live the unknown, I love the unknown... I AM the...
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War of the Sattelites used it when the "aliens" are trying to run Richard Devon (Dr Van Ponder) off the road.
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I know I heard it recently during some Nickelodeon cartoon, either SPONGE BOB or JIMMY NEUTRON (which makes sense, they're Paramount).
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