The Wilhem scream has sounded in more than 400 films, thus becoming one of the most used sounds of the cinema. However, few know its origin and face the actor behind this famous sound.
The original recording It has now come to light thanks to the University of Southern California, which had it saved for decades and has decided to upload the file to the Internet along with many other audios.
The scream came from voice actor Sheb Wooley and is named Wilhelm after the character he played in the 1951 film ‘Far Drums’. Wilhelm was dragged away by a crocodile and his cry was the last thing heard from that character. A scream that he had to record it in a studio up to five times to get the final result that has become famous.
Following there, the Wilhelm scream rang out in numerous westerns and war movies from the 1950s and 1960s. It then fell into oblivion until the ‘Star Wars’ sound engineers brought it back in 1977 for the first film in the saga, both as a tribute and as a joke.
Since then, Wilhelm is almost like a distant relativeone of those voices that sounds familiar to you even if you don’t really know what.
Source: Lasexta
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