In 1951 the movie "Distant Drums" was being made. During this movie, one of the characters gets attacked and dragged under the water he is wading through by an alligator. The man's reaction needed an appropriate scream of pain and a voice artist (most probably Sheb Wooley) was asked to provide some screams. He recorded a number of screams and one of these was picked.
The original scene and Sheb Wooley
Two years later, the movie "The Charge at Feather River" featured the same scream when a character, Private Wilhelm, got shot in the leg by an arrow.
Private Wilhelm
Ben Burtt, the chief sound guy on the Star Wars movies found the sound and adopted it as his own personal signature, using it in most of the movies that he worked on (including all the Star Wars movies). He also dubbed it "The Wilhelm Scream" after the unfortunate Private from Feather River.
A Star Wars scene that uses "The Wilhelm" and Ben Burtt.
Since then, the Wilhelm scream has become an in joke or reference for many sound engineers and has featured in around 150 movies and many games and TV shows too.
So, here you go. The Wilhelm scream (DSPODTH1) plus two others that I *think* were from the same original recording session used to replace the zombie death sounds in Doom. Inside the zip is a pk3. Load the PK3 and run it for 5 minutes of fun before you tire of the idea and go back to the normal sounds.
Reference:
http://www.hollywoodlostandfound.net/wilhelm/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream
) to get better at spotting Wilhelm screams so I figured that making myself very familiar with it would help. It's like hearing your own name across a crowded, noisy room. No matter how much background noise there is or whatever else is going on, if a movie or game has the brain cube shooter noise - even if I'm not the one watching/playing - it will suddenly catch my ear.
