As talked about on QI – Series 6: Film- this is the YouTube compilation of the Sheb Woolly scream favoured by sound FX editors.
Known in the trade as the Wilhelm Scream it originally appeared in the film Distant Drums in 1957. It then became part of the sound FX archive resting in a stock library as a lowly scream.
It was subsequently ‘adopted’ by a sound effects editor called Ben Bert. He and his friends in the business use it compulsively, to which end it has, apparently, appeared – or rather ‘can be heard’ – in more than 140 films, including;
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