War of the Worlds Heat Ray Sound Effect
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2022
- A Halloween treat - Sit back and listen to the eerie sounds of George Pal's Martian War Machine Heat Ray. The incredible original sound artists for the film were Howard Beals, Dan Johnson, Tommy Middleton, and Walter Oberst. With a little guest introduction by Orson Welles himself. What a voice he had. Enjoy and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
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I have read (IMDB trivia) that the death ray sound was three electric guitars played backwards.
Yes, I had heard or read that, also. The sounds are quite amazing. 😳
A tape loop of violins & violas actually.
@@MGrayl-ib5foWhat is your source for this as I have never seen that mentioned. From IMDb (although I don’t know where this was sourced either): “The sound effects of the Martian war machines' heat ray were created from three electric guitars played backward. The sound of the Martian screaming after Forrester hit it was a mixture of a microphone scraping along dry ice and a woman's scream played backward. The former set of sound effects became widely used stock sound effects after the film was released. They are still in use.”
The "sizzling" sound effect heard at 3:50 is the sound of a man striking an antenna guy-wire, distorted and echoed. Some other effects were various musicals instruments recorded, distorted, and played forwards and backwards. (like rubbing a contrabass with a glove and slowing it down, in "Godzilla")
The last of the three original Martian machines built for the picture was destroyed years ago when Forrest J. Ackerman's mansion / museum burned down in 2002.
I always thought of the sound effects as descriptive of a power containment system, then capacitive storage system, then a massive release. The Martians couldn't fire a heat-ray continuously for more than a few seconds. They had to recharge the firing system after every few blasts.
Interesting stuff! The sounds of this movie are among my favorites in all of film.
From my past reading about the war machine models, they were all donated to charity and the copper they were made with was melted down.
This is incredible! You’ve done a great job isolating those sounds! The ‘53 film is my favourite version, I’d love to use them in a stop motion version I’m planning!
Thanks for the kind words. You're certainly welcome to use the sounds. That's part of why I tried to isolate them. There's plenty of modelers (and filmmakers) out there that put sound effects to their projects. I only hope that we can see your film when you're done! 😃
Legendary sound effects.
Absolutely!
Incredible sound. Really pierces through the eardrum. I purchased a vinyl soundtrack that's revised down story but does have those wondrous sounds and ray blasts and the music score as well as incidental dialogue.I wonder how I will incorporate that with three models of the Martian War Machines. That would be a fabulous thing to see. Does this work on neighbouring nuisance dog barking? A few decimals up!👍👽 Love that sound!
I see you found this one already, George. I love these sound effects, also, as you can tell. You should try posting that vinyl album. I'll bet it sounds great.
As for it effecting barking dogs, I have no idea. 😆 Perhaps with the heat ray visual effect, it might be effective. 😄
@@morlockmeat From George. Yes I did come across the Halloween Orson Welles. Very well put together . I'm fortunate to have a special edition War Of The Worlds movie I purchased years ago and does include the Orson Welles Radio play that panicked America back in the day. As I was adding my comments the other night I thought I'd see if I'll be able to find Martian War Machine sounds and sure enough there it was. So I'm not the only one who looks for that sort of thing sound effects from SciFi film. Especially from a 1955 or is it 53? Can't remember which. Thanks for that. Now I'm going to rack my brains thinking what can I do with the models. I've no experience in electronics for Light and sound. Oh boy! 👍👽
Thanks, this is great
You're very welcome. Glad you enjoyed. 😃
Not bad,man
Thanks!
Where did you find this audio for Orson Wells' narration?
I can't find this version anywhere else...
The opening was from a NASA documentary called "Who's Out There?", that Welles hosted in 1975. It wasn't verbatim from H.G.'s novel, but with Orson doing it, was still quite effective.
The ending was, of course, from the Welles 1938 radio broadcast.
Unmistakeable and Unforgettable great sounds and terrifying 😎👍