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In case you didn't know, the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Sportz?" from Season 10 marks the first appearance of this iconic sound. It's kinda crazy it wasn't used until 2017, considering the show first aired 18 years prior. 2603:7080:DC02:5FB5:9C9C:E310:D14D:BBC2 (talk) 11:30, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I did not know about the Wilhelm Scream until today, and will be entertainingly embarrassed by my previous ignorance, during repeats of the many things I have seen that I now know contain it. What I HAVE noticed, is a thing not mentioned here, or in the film-maker's signatures article: a certain blaring airhorn. Two blasts, one steady in pitch, the second with strong Doppler effect in passing. I've heard it often, and there seems to be a game in which makers of films and TV shows take this sound to ever more outlandish extremes of use. I expect Doctor Who to hold the title very comfortably for maybe 20 years following its use for the Slitheen spaceship's crash landing, but since then I've been hearing it so many times, exact in pitch and duration, every time, in shows both older and newer... I don't know its origins, but I hope that maybe someone reading this will be interested enough in it to write an article to rival the Wilhelm Scream. It deserves it!
81.187.19.110 (talk) 21:40, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I can see on this article that there is a long list of examples of where the Wilhelm scream was used. This seems too trivial for a Wikipedia article. I ask, because the Running gag Wikipedia article had a list like this but was taken down: Should we delete the section? Waylon (was) (here) 17:14, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
So, despite being recorded in 1951 by Sheb Wooley for "Distant Drums", the scream couldn't have been NAMED before 1953, because the "Private Wilhelm" involved didn't exist until 1953. This talk-page's article strongly implies that the scream's acquisition of a name was caused by its inclusion in the Warner-Brothers stock sound library. I believe the actor who portrayed Private Wilhelm, who screamed in "The Charge At Feather River", to have been Ralph BrookE. IMDB.com is FAIRLY clear on this. If you look at the IMDB cast of "The Charge At Feather River" (the "all cast and crew" page, not "top billed only"), it says that Ralph BrookE portrayed Private Wilhelm, and that Ralph BrookS wasn't acting in this film at all. If you look at the IMDB page for Ralph BrookE, it includes "The Charge At Feather River" in his acting-work. If you look at the IMDB.com movie-listings for Ralph BrookS, it does NOT include "The Charge At Feather River" in HIS acting-work. So far so good, four datums agree with each other. Now here's where someone botched it all up. On the BIOGRAPHY page for Ralph BrookS, under "Trivia", it says the Wilhelm Scream was named after a character he portrayed in "The Charge At Feather River", even though IMDB does NOT have "The Charge At Feather River" in Mr. BrookS's list of acting-work one click away from this bio. (Nor does it have Mr. BrookS listed in the full cast for the movie, which is hot-linked in this "Trivia" paragraph there.) What most likely happened is that someone typed up the story, and copied-and-pasted it into the wrong Ralph's biography.2600:1700:6759:B000:BC01:5B8F:D549:A2DF (talk) 04:30, 19 August 2024 (UTC)Christopher Lawrence Simpson[reply]