^ nope. not the wilhelm.

I'm not too keen on recognizing it and I'm too lazy to go check right now, but wasn't that the Wilhelm Scream I just heard?

Tigers are awesome.

makes great use of the Wilhelm Scream. Hilarious

Wilhelm scream ftw. And that whole Abbot and Costello thing was good too I suppose.

>> ^Nebosuke:
>> ^jerryku:
needed an "Ahhh!" sound as Obi fell

Seriously... a Wilhelm Scream would have worked just fine.


"Yeah, I'll just fill my pipe... AHHHH!"

>> ^Nebosuke:

Seriously... a Wilhelm Scream would have worked just fine.


Now that makes me curious. What exactly is a Wilhelm Scream?

-update: http://www.videosift.com/video/History-of-the-Wilhelm-Scream found it

>> ^jerryku:
needed an "Ahhh!" sound as Obi fell


Seriously... a Wilhelm Scream would have worked just fine.

I have a decent candidate to replace the Wilhelm scream.

Ugh. I guess I'll be the only dissenting view here. As a certified movie nut, I can't stand the Wilhelm scream. Because it is in everything. But, I also watch more movies than the average person, so I would notice it more often. As you know, familiarity breeds contempt.

There's also a female "Wilhelm" that is very overdone as well. I first heard it years ago on a sound-effects-for-video-production CD (which I still have somewhere) and I've heard it used in at least 25-35 separate movies/tv shows/video games/etc. But nowhere near as bad as the Wilhelm, as evidenced by the above clip.

Oh well.

I detest the Wilhelm scream. I detest it because it jars me out of whatever movie I'm watching, whatever escapism, and reminds me it's just a silly movie.

I also dislike the arrogance of them to say that it's something that no-one noticed unless they were in the business. I, and many others, do notice these things you know, they detract from the films. Grrr.

I upvote this for the historical notes, and the original recording, fascinating.

Oh, and just to mention, my MOST HATED sound in sound design is the kii-woosh sound that I mention in this other sift. It's used ALL THE DAMN time, and I hate, hate, hate it.

Didn't think this was very good, then I heard the Wilhelm scream and had to upvote.

A very nice Wilhelm scream in here..

^Agreed. Tired of the Wilhelm scream. As well as the "female Wilhelm" that's been overused too.

i feel the dissent to this unoffiacial siftquisition, coming from some of the members (me included), is based on the impression of overall drop in the quality of videos that appear on the front page. you might argue that one's shit is gold to you and vice versa... and you'd be right, of course. but the point is some of us believe the sift changed it's course for the worse. i'm not gonna pretend i know the answer on what went wrong cause i don't. but whenever i go exploring the sift archives, posts from a year back or so, i feel we're failing somewhere. please, prove me wrong.
btw, choggie - if this was a trial, you'd probably get off on a technicality since the rules are not explicit in this case. i like the idea (gwiz665) of having a second opinion before discarding someone's video. maybe we should start * discussing more. shouldn't be such a bother since i see this boring and tasteless piece of video history already got 90 comments (and over 1600 views so far). meanwhile, some quality posts are dying of loneliness in our pq's...

I don't remember hearing the Wilhelm scream when I watched this movie.