This is a Skywalker Sound sound effect. It was created by Christopher Boyes, and it debuted in Titanic (1997).
Used In
TV Shows
Movies
- Altered (2006)
- Cast Away (2000) (Heard thrice throughout the film. Once before the FedEx container inside the plane slides forward, and twice when Chuck resurfaces after the plane crashes.)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
- Chicken Run (2000)
- The Fate of the Furious (2017) (Either this sound or a near identical sound is used for the interior of Dom's Fleetline rattling as he races Raldo through Havana in it.)
- Hoodwinked! (2005)
- Iron Man (2008)
- The Island (2005)
- Metro (2013) (Heard twice in a higher pitch.)
- The Polar Express (2004) (Heard once on the left channel in an extremely low volume that is mostly audible in the 5.1 mix when the camera pans in on Steamer before he engages the locomotive's reversing lever to get the train moving in the opposite direction on the ice lake.)
- Titanic (1997) (Debut; heard once when Titanic's engines begin to stop before they start to reverse.)
Image Gallery
The Polar Express (2004) SKYWALKER, INDUSTRY - LARGE MACHINERY RATCHETING (left channel only, extremely low volume, mostly audible in the 5.1 mix)
Audio Samples
(The sound as heard in Cast Away.)












