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The origins of cinema’s biggest sound design in-joke, The Wilhelm Scream


It has been used in hundreds of films since first appearing in Distant Drums in 1951

The BBC’s Inside Cinema on how the cinema industry’s ultimate in-joke, the Wilhelm Scream, came to appear in some of best-known and most-loved films, from the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises to the likes of Toy Story, Reservoir Dogs and Beauty and the Beast.



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