The Wilhelm Scream (AHHHHHHHHHHH!)

If you watch movies or television--you've heard the Wilhelm Scream . It's been used hundreds of times by sound designers since the early 50s. This YouTube amalgamation illustrates it's use in everything from Indiana Jones to Walt Disney's Aladdin. George Lucas used it many times.



Want to know more about Wilhelm? Then listen to this (Link) audio feature from WNYC, NY and On the Media. (10 minutes)

According to legend, the scream was first used in a western and the character from whom the scream originated was named Wilhelm. You'd scream too with an arrow in your leg.

George Bush, the cutup (I mean cutout)

I find this video disturbing and am hesitant to put it here. So I'll give you a link to YouTube. Oh, it isn't violent or pornographic. It just makes me feel uneasy. Especially, following Mr. Gingrich's version of One Nation Under God. It reminds me of other times and other countries.

The YouTube description, in part:

Children directed to talk to a cardboard cutout of George W. Bush and asked to pray for him. Kids touch the picture of the president and then yell, "One Nation Under God."

Will Corporations Hold the Only Key to the Internet? Net Neutrality? What's That?

Is the internet in danger of being taken over by ATandT and others corporations? What is net neutrality and why is it so important? Will corporations become the gatekeepers to the internet? What would such a takeover mean to your freedom of expression? Watch.
Decide for yourself.

Movie Romance with new song subtitles

I re-worked the subtitles for A Love That Will Never Grow Old, sung by Emmy Lou Harris in this short piece. Here it is--the new, improved version.

Greta Garbo and John Barrymore

Irving Berlin's Classic Christmas Song

"Not only is it the best song I ever wrote, it's the best song anybody ever wrote." Irving Berlin

White Christmas, had its debut in the 1942 film Holiday Inn, starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire and Marjorie Reynolds. The song won Berlin an oscar for best music, original song in 1943, and became the title song of the film White Christmas in 1954 with Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera Allen.

David Armand and Natalie Imbruglia in full version of Torn

David Armand is, in addition to being an excellent ensemble actor, (he is a member of the British comedy group the Hollow Men. They appeared on Comedy Central last year.)

This video LINK , in which Armand mimes the song Torn as sung by Australian actress, singer Natalie Imbruglia.



In this longer version, performed at London's Royal Albert Hall in October for Amnesty International's Secret Policeman's Ball, Armand mimes the full three and half minutes, joined in the second verse by the very lovely Miss Imbruglia.