This sound effect was recorded for the Cinesound library. Its earliest known appearance was The Heroes of Telemark in 1965.
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Used in
TV Shows
- Art Attack (Heard in the first six seasons’ intros)
- Courage The Cowardly Dog (Heard in “Klub Katz”)
- Joe 90 (Heard in “Business Holiday”)
- London's Burning
- Sherlock (Heard in “His Last Vow”)
- Space: 1999 (Sped-up variation used in “The Exiles”)
- The Prisoner (Heard in “Fallout”)
- The Professionals (Heard in “London’s Last Stand”)
- Thomas & Friends (Used as Elizabeth's horn in "Jack Frost"; heard once in "Bill, Ben and Fergus" and multiple times in "Emily to the Rescue".)
- Thunderbirds (1965) (heard in “Atlantic Inferno” and “Give Or Take A Million”)
- Tugs (Heard in "Munitions".)
- UFO
Movies
- Alien (1979) (Used for the Nostromo’s destruction countdown)
- The Big Bang (1987) (Slighty Low Picthed edited)
- Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
- Doppelgänger (1969)
- Entrapment (1999)
- Escape to Athena (1979)
- GoldenEye (1995) (Sped-up variation heard during the Russian base evacuation)
- The Heroes of Telemark (1965) (Debut)
- Merlin: The Return (2000)
- Shout At The Devil (1976)
- Sky Bandits (1986)
- Submarine X-1 (1968)
- Superman (1978) (Heard when the Hoover Dam starts breaking up (Mono version only) and when Superman brings Lex Luthor and Otis to jail)
- Superman II (1980) (Heard in the establishing shot of Lex Luthor’s prison in the Lester cut)
- Superman III (1983) (Heard when the corrupted Superman destroys an oil tanker)
- The Day After (1983) (Heard during a missile launch)
- The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
- Time Bandits (1981) (Heard when the Titanic sinks)
- Voyage of the Damned (1976)
- You Only Live Twice (1967)
Video Games
PC:
PlayStation 3:
PlayStation 4:
Xbox 360:
Xbox One:
Nintendo Switch:
Arcade:
Trailers
YouTube Videos
Anime
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS (Heard in a low pitch.)
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