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Does anybody know the name for the sound effect...

posted 4 years ago by DoctorThirteen (15287)
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... that they used in the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman when they were jumping great heights? It still turns up now and then in live-action and animation, say if somebody is throwing something ridiculously hard or far. It's difficult to describe. It has a metallic sound to it, like maybe the movement of a spring, but slowed down.

It's so common it must have a name, like the 'Wilhelm Scream' or 'Castle Thunder'.

Doc

[–] nyctc7 (44103) 4 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OyIBuF73PQ

I think in the industry it's called "The Lee Majors." Just kidding I don't know.

[–] DoctorThirteen (15287) 4 years ago

That first one is definitely the one I'm talking about. I guess 'the Lee Majors' is as good a name as any!

Thanks!

[–] AndyKing1967 (39820) 4 years ago

I could hear it in my head as I read the post, lol.
Probably ‘bionic’.

[–] snepts (11123) 4 years ago

I think there has been a recent thread of whether bad sound effects ruin a show or movie, but one of my favorites is what I will call the Beatin' Feet. Probably featured in the Flintstones.
Sounds like really fast drumming on coconuts and often with a high "pyoo" added when the character gets traction.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (78509) 4 years ago

I recall this effect from the original Scooby Doo series

[–] snepts (11123) 4 years ago

I always took that effect for granted, then one day I thought that oh-so-grand thought --
How did they do that? Where does it come from?
And it's just kind of cool to think some guy can drum that sound and they matched it to the action.
If a rock drummer managed to drop that into a tune it would be both distracting and hilarious.

[–] DoctorThirteen (15287) 4 years ago

I know the one! Been watching a lot of Scooby-Doo lately and it definitely turns up a lot there.

[–] GlenEllyn (21653) 4 years ago

As in, this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGYuOqA0pnw&t=1m58s

Or maybe this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TudMykewh_I

[–] ShogunofYonkers (78509) 4 years ago

Yes, the first one😃

[–] mikethemartian (6992) 4 years ago

I was watching an old Twilight Zone episode the other night where Buddy Ebsen plays a man with telekinesis. In the beginning there is an automobile crash and the sound effect sounded like it was out of a cartoon like the Flintstones.

[–] jonathan_k80 (6436) 4 years ago

Hanna-Barbera Studios created a vast library of sound effects, some of which have been used by other studios (even Disney).

I still would like to know how these were done. The only one I've ever seen explained is the loud CLANGG! accompanied by what sounds like an old taxi horn. You would hear this whenever Fred Flintstone dropped the bowling ball on his foot. I read it was done by dropping a car wheel rim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGYuOqA0pnw (1:25 mark)

[–] jriley555 (8543) 4 years ago

it goes back to the early hanna-barbara - it was a mainstay in huckleberry hound, probably pixie&dixie, many others.

bongos were a big deal in the late 50s.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21709) 4 years ago

I’m pretty sure that sample is used in this rave tune from back in the day.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QjPK5KFxKR8

[–] DoctorThirteen (15287) 4 years ago

Surprisingly, I've never heard that! 👍

[–] Moonglum9 (11338) 4 years ago

I just call it "BINT-DINT-DINT-DINT-DINT-DINT-DIN".

[–] DoctorThirteen (15287) 4 years ago

😊

[–] ShogunofYonkers (78509) 4 years ago

That's as good a name as any I suppose

[–] Moonglum9 (11338) 4 years ago

Michael Winslow could probably do it dead on.

[–] jriley555 (8543) 4 years ago

i saw him at a comedy club one time. the guy is incredible.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (78509) 4 years ago

The Police Academy dude!
He was awesome

[–] Moonglum9 (11338) 4 years ago

Great in Spaceballs too

[–] Who (5146) 4 years ago

Here’s a history of those sounds.

https://bionic.fandom.com/wiki/Bionic_Sounds

This part provides some insight:

(note: this information is in need of corroboration) While Universal was known in the 70's for recycling stock footage and sounds, Charles King, the Sound Designer for the shows, is reported to have braced a metal ruler or yardstick on the edge of a table, pulling and releasing the extended end, then slowing the resultant sound to 25%.

The Bionic Woman “hoo hoo hoo” sound coupled with a zooming in of Jamie’s ear was a funny one

[–] DoctorThirteen (15287) 4 years ago

That's very interesting - thanks.

[–] nyctc7 (44103) 4 years ago

How about this effect, a spring sound, for someone who is dumb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N87ioCb_6ac&t=515s