Hat. Whip. Nazis. Trains. CG de-aging. It’s interesting what it takes to bring Indiana Jones back to the ‘40s. It’s even more interesting what filmmaking language “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” employs to make us feel embedded in the era’s cinema of action and adventure: It wouldn’t be complete without a goon falling into the abyss to the accompaniment of the Wilhelm scream.
When audiences hear the Wilhelm scream in “Dial of Destiny,” it’s sound designer Gary Rydstrom doing a little time travel of his own: Back to the ‘70s and the creative exuberance of the Movie Brats, and even further still to the Westerns and serials that made heroes seem larger than life. The pained cry, sometimes attributed to actor/singer Sheb Wooley, almost has the quality of a bullet ricochet: You hear it and feel something at the intersection of cartoon comedy,...
When audiences hear the Wilhelm scream in “Dial of Destiny,” it’s sound designer Gary Rydstrom doing a little time travel of his own: Back to the ‘70s and the creative exuberance of the Movie Brats, and even further still to the Westerns and serials that made heroes seem larger than life. The pained cry, sometimes attributed to actor/singer Sheb Wooley, almost has the quality of a bullet ricochet: You hear it and feel something at the intersection of cartoon comedy,...
- 7/18/2023
- by Sarah Shachat
- Indiewire
America’s Got Talent‘s Top 48 reveal drew 10.3 million total viewers — easily Wednesday’s biggest audience — and a 2.4 rating (per finals), matching its Tuesday demo and edging out Big Brother for the nightly win.
NBC’s fresh serving of Agt set Taxi Brooklyn up for gains of 13 and 25 percent, to 5.3 mil/1.0.
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Elsewhere….
CBS | Big Brother (6.6 mil/2.3) rose 6 percent and two tenths week-to-week, but Extant (6.5 mil/1.1) fell 20 and 27 percent (and is now off a good 30 percent from its debut).
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NBC’s fresh serving of Agt set Taxi Brooklyn up for gains of 13 and 25 percent, to 5.3 mil/1.0.
Related Fall Preview 2014: Your Handy Calendar of 99 Premieres
Elsewhere….
CBS | Big Brother (6.6 mil/2.3) rose 6 percent and two tenths week-to-week, but Extant (6.5 mil/1.1) fell 20 and 27 percent (and is now off a good 30 percent from its debut).
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- 7/24/2014
- TVLine.com
That Cote de Pablo‘s first TV project since her headline-making NCIS exit is on CBS should speak volumes about her post-Ziva relationship with the network she called home for eight years.
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“We’ve been saying it all along — we’re thrilled that this Dovekeepers project has come up for her,” NCIS showrunner Gary Glasberg told TVLine following his appearance at the Television Critics Assoc. summer press tour, where he was promoting the spin-off NCIS; New Orleans.
De Pablo’s miniseries gig — about four women in ancient Israel whose...
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“We’ve been saying it all along — we’re thrilled that this Dovekeepers project has come up for her,” NCIS showrunner Gary Glasberg told TVLine following his appearance at the Television Critics Assoc. summer press tour, where he was promoting the spin-off NCIS; New Orleans.
De Pablo’s miniseries gig — about four women in ancient Israel whose...
- 7/17/2014
- TVLine.com
CBS’ Two and a Half Men is poised to say “I do” before it says adieu.
In its farewell run (premiering Oct. 30), the long-running sitcom will find Walden (played by Ashton Kutcher) proposing marriage to Alan (Jon Cryer) — if not in the name of love, for a greater good.
“Walden is going to have a major health scare and it is going to give him a bit of an existential crisis,” CBS Entertainment chairman Nina Tassler told reporters Thursday at the Television Critics Assoc.
In its farewell run (premiering Oct. 30), the long-running sitcom will find Walden (played by Ashton Kutcher) proposing marriage to Alan (Jon Cryer) — if not in the name of love, for a greater good.
“Walden is going to have a major health scare and it is going to give him a bit of an existential crisis,” CBS Entertainment chairman Nina Tassler told reporters Thursday at the Television Critics Assoc.
- 7/17/2014
- TVLine.com
CBS Entertainment chairman Nina Tassler fielded questions Thursday at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour, addressing major developments at the network — and, of course, The Good Wife‘s recent Emmy snub.
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“I admit it, I’m still really pissed about The Good Wife,” she began. “But overall, the nominations were very good at CBS,” which lead all broadcasters with 45 total nods. (On the topic of the acclaimed-yet-not drama, Tassler after her press conference firmly refuted any suggestion that an end date is anywhere on the horizon.
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“I admit it, I’m still really pissed about The Good Wife,” she began. “But overall, the nominations were very good at CBS,” which lead all broadcasters with 45 total nods. (On the topic of the acclaimed-yet-not drama, Tassler after her press conference firmly refuted any suggestion that an end date is anywhere on the horizon.
- 7/17/2014
- TVLine.com
Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance this Wednesday drew 3.6 million total viewers and a 1.0 rating, shedding a few eyeballs and slipping a tenth to an all-time low demo.
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Elsewhere on the night….
CBS | Big Brother (6.2 mil/2.0) ticked up 5 percent and a tenth, leading the night in the demo. Extant (7.9 mil/1.5) slipped 18 percent and a tenth from its premiere, but drew the night’s largest audience.
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NBC | Leading out of an American’s Got Talent...
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Elsewhere on the night….
CBS | Big Brother (6.2 mil/2.0) ticked up 5 percent and a tenth, leading the night in the demo. Extant (7.9 mil/1.5) slipped 18 percent and a tenth from its premiere, but drew the night’s largest audience.
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- 7/17/2014
- TVLine.com
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey may have only been in cinemas a week, but it has already smashed box office records and left fans salivating for The Desolation of Smaug.
Now the latest film entry in Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth series is far from perfect: it is overly-long and (like many of Jackson’s non-Rings work) overly self-indulgent, and while there may be sparks of brilliance (riddles in the dark) and a pleasing lightness in tone, it stands as incomplete – the first half of a good movie; something Fellowship of the Ring never felt like. Sadly, all of its faults can be traced back to the incredibly ill-decided choice of splitting a tome shorter than any of The Lord of the Rings into three, lengthy parts. Even with the added content of the appendices that’s a bit much.
Regardless, there’s plenty of splendour packed into the feature,...
Now the latest film entry in Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth series is far from perfect: it is overly-long and (like many of Jackson’s non-Rings work) overly self-indulgent, and while there may be sparks of brilliance (riddles in the dark) and a pleasing lightness in tone, it stands as incomplete – the first half of a good movie; something Fellowship of the Ring never felt like. Sadly, all of its faults can be traced back to the incredibly ill-decided choice of splitting a tome shorter than any of The Lord of the Rings into three, lengthy parts. Even with the added content of the appendices that’s a bit much.
Regardless, there’s plenty of splendour packed into the feature,...
- 12/23/2012
- by Alex Leadbeater
- Obsessed with Film
Still drifting with the time machine of Il Cinema Ritrovato, I can profoundly feel the endlessness of the medium. Though this is supposedly a journey through the past, as Henri Langlois points out, it also indicates our very future. In this regard, at least to me, Raoul Walsh is the future and cinephilia is nothing but shaping our future by returning to the rich heritage of the moving images.
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Raoul Walsh’s anti-vengeance Distant Drums (1951), starring Gary Cooper and set in Florida in 1840, is about a journey of professional soldiers and ordinary people through the dangerous Everglades, only to discover at the end that the promised land they are searching for is burnt down to the ground. As one can expect from a Walsh film, they stay on the land and fight, man-to-man. There is no room for self-pity or sentimentalism, and the journey itself becomes a metaphor for self-discovery...
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Raoul Walsh’s anti-vengeance Distant Drums (1951), starring Gary Cooper and set in Florida in 1840, is about a journey of professional soldiers and ordinary people through the dangerous Everglades, only to discover at the end that the promised land they are searching for is burnt down to the ground. As one can expect from a Walsh film, they stay on the land and fight, man-to-man. There is no room for self-pity or sentimentalism, and the journey itself becomes a metaphor for self-discovery...
- 7/2/2012
- MUBI
Distant Drums, a film almost forgotten except for one scream
The Wilhelm Scream is a film and television stock sound effect first used in 1951 for the film Distant Drums. The effect gained new popularity (its use often becoming an in-joke) after it was used in Star Wars and many other blockbuster films as well as television programs and video games. The scream is often used when someone gets shot, falls from a great height, or is thrown from an explosion.
The sound is named for Private Wilhelm, a character in The Charge at Feather River, a 1953 western where the character was shot with an arrow. The scream shows up in hundreds of films– see (or rather hear) what we mean.
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The Wilhelm Scream is a film and television stock sound effect first used in 1951 for the film Distant Drums. The effect gained new popularity (its use often becoming an in-joke) after it was used in Star Wars and many other blockbuster films as well as television programs and video games. The scream is often used when someone gets shot, falls from a great height, or is thrown from an explosion.
The sound is named for Private Wilhelm, a character in The Charge at Feather River, a 1953 western where the character was shot with an arrow. The scream shows up in hundreds of films– see (or rather hear) what we mean.
Click here to view the embedded video.
- 5/1/2011
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
You've all heard it before, but perhaps you didn't know it had a name or history; The Wilhelm Scream. Its the agonizing scream of pain and surprise used in many movies throughout film and television history, most notably most, if not all, of Spielburg/Lucas creations. It's hard to illustrate with an onomatopoeia, but I'll try. It goes like this "UhAAaaaah!"
The Wilhelm Scream was first used in the 1951 movie Distant Drums and recorded by the great Sheb Wooley best known for his song "Flying Purple People Eater." Since then it has been used in over 216 shows, movies, and video games. Its namesake was a character named Private Wilhelm who screamed when shot with an arrow in the 1953 Western The Charge at Feather River.
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The Wilhelm Scream was first used in the 1951 movie Distant Drums and recorded by the great Sheb Wooley best known for his song "Flying Purple People Eater." Since then it has been used in over 216 shows, movies, and video games. Its namesake was a character named Private Wilhelm who screamed when shot with an arrow in the 1953 Western The Charge at Feather River.
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- 4/25/2011
- by Emily Cheever
- Filmology
For those who seem to be completely lost after reading that headline, here's a little backstory. According to Wikipedia, The Wilhelm scream is a film and television stock sound effect first used in 1951 for the film Distant Drums. Though you may not know it by name, you certainly know its signature sound as it has appeared in a whole slew of popular films. For those of you who have no idea what we're talking about, you'll soon be enlightened as SlashFilm just had one of their readers send them quite an extensive video compilation of nearly every instance this signature scream has been heard on film. Check this out below! The sound itself became popular on film again after sound designer Ben Burtt discovered the original recording (which he found as a studio reel labeled "Man being eaten by alligator") and incorporated it into the above scene in Star Wars...
- 4/25/2011
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
[1] As you probably know, the Wilhelm scream is a in-joke which has appeared in many many movies over the past 60 years. The stock sound effect first appeared in the 1951 film Distant Drums, and has since been used in many blockbuster films, television programs and even video games. /Film reader Joseph Demme [2] has put together a 12 minute video compilation of almost every single instance where the Wilhelm Scream has been heard in movies. Yeah, its pretty damn comprehensive. Watch it now, embedded after the jump. image thanks tio wikia [3] [1] http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/ZZ36903195.jpg [2] http://www.cinexcellence.com/ [3] http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:Wilhelm_comic.jpg...
- 4/25/2011
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
As Halloween approaches, what better time to salute the greatest shrieks of terror in TV and cinema? Here’s Jeff’s top ten...
With Halloween lurking in the near future, now is surely the time for studios to release horror movies en masse, for grocery stores to stock aisles full of candy, and for Den Of Geek to run an article like this one.
10. Jaws - Susan Backlinie
Jaws has a plethora of great sounds. One could talk endlessly about John Williams' infamous two-note ostinato, the best fingernails against blackboard screech in the history of cinema, or even the ka-ching! of movie theatre cash registers in the summer of 75.
What gives that film its immediate, visceral impact is the shark attack in the opening minutes of the film. Poor Chrissie (Backlinie) makes the fatal horror movie mistake of getting drunk, trying to pick up a guy, and taking her clothes off.
With Halloween lurking in the near future, now is surely the time for studios to release horror movies en masse, for grocery stores to stock aisles full of candy, and for Den Of Geek to run an article like this one.
10. Jaws - Susan Backlinie
Jaws has a plethora of great sounds. One could talk endlessly about John Williams' infamous two-note ostinato, the best fingernails against blackboard screech in the history of cinema, or even the ka-ching! of movie theatre cash registers in the summer of 75.
What gives that film its immediate, visceral impact is the shark attack in the opening minutes of the film. Poor Chrissie (Backlinie) makes the fatal horror movie mistake of getting drunk, trying to pick up a guy, and taking her clothes off.
- 10/20/2010
- Den of Geek
You’ve heard it. You might not think that you’ve heard it, but you have, countless times in fact. A piercing, despair-ridden wail so aurally disturbing that you instinctively glance up, even if you weren’t watching, to try to glimpse what unspeakable horror just befall the character whose demise it was assigned to signify.
Though named for its first on screen use, the 1953 film Charge at Feather River where a character named Private Wilhelm takes an arrow to the leg and screams in agony, the origin of the scream dates back two years previously. The scream was originally recorded for the 1951 film Distant Drums with Gary Cooper and slated as “man being bitten by alligator” but was never used. A post-production sound effects actor, who some believe to be none other than Sheb Wooley of “Purple People Eater” fame, made several attempts that the supervisor deemed unsatisfactory. The...
Though named for its first on screen use, the 1953 film Charge at Feather River where a character named Private Wilhelm takes an arrow to the leg and screams in agony, the origin of the scream dates back two years previously. The scream was originally recorded for the 1951 film Distant Drums with Gary Cooper and slated as “man being bitten by alligator” but was never used. A post-production sound effects actor, who some believe to be none other than Sheb Wooley of “Purple People Eater” fame, made several attempts that the supervisor deemed unsatisfactory. The...
- 10/31/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- JustPressPlay.net
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