sounds you only hear in movies

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1) the dense crackle of tobacco shreds bein lit at the end of a cigarette
2) dial tone on the line immediately after someone's hung up (there was a NYT article about this odd convention a couple of years ago) (i.e. sounds you hear all the time but which in movies appear in contexts you would never hear anywhere else)

i can't think of any others, though.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

That perfectly pitched rising door creak, or the quick "cu-chun-ku" when someone unlocks and opens a door.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i have raised plenty of ultra-dramatic door squeaks in my day, though Hurting. i think British doors are especially prone to them.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

especially when the lights are off.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Light Sabers are pretty rare in my parts.

― {Sand in the [vaseline} on the lens] (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

thunderous face-punching

― jones (actual), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Tie Fighters, too.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

slowed-down animal sounds as ambience. I ain't never heard one o' those in real life, but they're in practically every scare movie ever made.

― {Sand in the [vaseline} on the lens] (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The horses I've known do not make that "brbrbrbrbrbrb" sound every time I look at or reference them.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

somebody told me once that the "PZJH" sound for punches and kicks in kung fu movies was the sound of a huge fish being slammed down on a metal table. i always pictured the guy whose job that was and if he got royalty checks, or if for every new kung fu flick he had to go out to a cold mountainside with a table and a fish and some fancy recording equipment. why the cold mountainside i don't know.

xpost: i make that sound when i pee

xxpost

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

clove cigarettes do the crackle thing

― tremendoid, Tuesday, 28 September 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

haha wait, i don't make slowed down animal sounds when i pee. i don't think.

xpost yeah! maybe that's what the Foley artists use. that's the official name for the guy with the fish (and the clove cigarettes, maybe)

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

dvd's won't be fulfilling their potential until you can watch video of the entire Foley track in progress

― jones (actual), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I also heard steaks flung onto concrete are used often as a punch sound, because actually punching someone or something like meat to get the sound effect produces too dull a thud (b/fs dad works in AV, he knows these inane things).

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

As for the topic to hand: thunder, IMMEDIATELY followed by a downpour. For that matter, thunder that sounds like it does in cheap films. Is that just metal sheets being bashed?

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

that sort of "plunk" sound when something is thrown or dropped into water/fishtank/lake etc

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

There are a few of these actually available IIRC, but i'll be damned if I can remember them. 'The Conversation' DVD has some great infoz on this, if I'm thinking right.

― {Sand in the [vaseline} on the lens] (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Somebody should record the sounds of different meats being hurled violently against things and see if people can identify them.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Sometimes when I'm alone and get the creeps I hear that scary violin sound from The Shining.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"ja ja ja!"

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, may as well say orgasms in general

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

but specifically german ones? what, german people don't orgasm?

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

oh wait i see. i think.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

explosions etc in outer space

― jones (actual), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Ohh... I'm a huge gigantic fan of the crazy-loud sonar pings from (ha, ha, 'specially German) submarine movies. One day last week I was driving to work and I began making them out loud "DNG....Toufchhhh!" as I waited to pull out of the parking garage. Unfortunately the window was open, and a bunch of undergraduates were watching me, horrified.

― {Sand in the [vaseline} on the lens] (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

(hi DL, haven't seen you since you pretend quit a few days ago... everything working out okay?)

― {Sand in the [vaseline} on the lens] (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

hello dude. yes i'm fine right now. i think i posted an update on that "seeya later guys" thread from a couple of weeks back. trying to keep posting down to a minimum, but you know how these things are. starting a new job on the 4th october where i will NOT be netting it.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

:( Good to know!

― {Sand in the [vaseline} on the lens] (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Porno yelping

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 28 September 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"Porno yelping"

Uh, then dude, you're, like, doing something wrong. Huh Huh.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"Sex Tips from Beavis"

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

HOWLING WIND

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 28 September 2004 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Wind actually does howl, though.

Menacing laughter before doing something bad.

― supercub, Tuesday, 28 September 2004 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

musical soundtrack to everday mundane activities

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha i was just going to post the same thing gem

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I really wish that wasn't confined to the movies.

― supercub, Tuesday, 28 September 2004 04:18 (twenty-one years ago)

sometimes i have my own internal soundtrack or narrative to daily life. i.e. "she looked pensive/murderous/contented as she waited for the bus. which was 25 minutes late."

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 04:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The sound of a gun being cocked.

― supercub, Tuesday, 28 September 2004 04:19 (twenty-one years ago)

naked lightbulbs don't usually make that buzzing/crackling noise

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

If you stand up too quick they can.

― {Sand in the [vaseline} on the lens] (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

is the buzz caused by them frying your hair when you bump your head on them though?

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

That *ting* sound that really sparkly things make.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I once watched Blazing Saddles with J0n Wi11iam's Grandma. During the farting scene after the beans, the closed captioning said:

Rude Noise! Rude Noise! More Rude Noises!
Rude Noise! Loud Rude Noise! Rude Noise! etc.,

was totally brilliant. I would like if my more-subtle exclamations / utterances came with a closed-captioning device; I'd occasionally look down to see what I'd said.

― {Sand in the [vaseline} on the lens] (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

And teeth. (xpost)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

an ex's uncle was a foley artist, to make punching sounds he hit a frozen chicken with a baseball bat!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh Jer that captioning thing reminds me of something I saw once, about how closed caption typists have a real time of it with live TV, as they have to keep up with the stuff on the spot. When its a live chat show (in this case it was "the Panel" I think?) theyve been known to lose their place and just ttype "blah blah blah something whatever" which would crack me up - I wish I had CCTV.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)

you don't? i think most TVs come with it, you just have to dig into its pea-brain submenus to find out where to turn it on/off.. i had a TV w/no remote once and the CC was permanently turned on. i found myself compulsively reading the captioning along with every show. it's startling how unfunny most comedies become when you read along with them.

now i want to see a big battle to the death between a walking steak vs a plucked chicken vs a headless fish HIIIYAH

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

the buzzing naked light bulb is a good one

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

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