Mellotronists

jonesalley wrote:

> I've never been able to find out for sure, but I'd be willing to bet that the
> Pal "War of the Worlds" sound was an early 1950's Chrysler product
> starter-motor.  Photon torpedoes are indeed guy wires, and Star Wars used new
> recordings of the same kind of sound with some creative Ben Burtt audio
> processing.
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> Hi Jon and Gang,   There were two different SFX used in WOTW-1953.
> One does souns like Chrys. starter motor, then followed by that guy-wire
> thing .....most of the time.  I just played my laserdisc copy to make certain.
>
> One of the ST-TNG sound-track CD's included a bunch of SFX from the
> series and films. One was the jump to Warp-1  . Impressive ...... JK