Discuss: The Many Sound Effects of Toho

[menschenjaeger]

It's used in another monster flick....but I can't remember where. Help?

During the electrical blockade sequence in King Kong vs. Godzilla?

Nah...was it something in Frankenstein? It was the sound effect for something completely different...maybe a weapon in an ep of Ultraman?

[G-Matt]

I absolutely love the classic explosion sound effects that were used throughout the 60s and 70s (and a few times in the 80s). The infamous highway scene from Prophecies of Nostradamus is a good example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIc07S56gOs

[PopInPicsPresents]

Something that's always bugged me, some monsters emit sounds in the films that aren't released on the Sound Effects CDs. Why haven't they released all the sounds on CD yet?

[menschenjaeger]

It's used in another monster flick....but I can't remember where. Help?

During the electrical blockade sequence in King Kong vs. Godzilla?

Nah...was it something in Frankenstein? It was the sound effect for something completely different...maybe a weapon in an ep of Ultraman?

I found it! They use that same sound for a door(!) in DAM - the scene where they go to the headquarters after the attack on Tokyo.

[Ethan]

The "collapse" sound effect, used for any occasion where a building is destroyed. Also, the splashing water, the explosions (especially the '70s ones) and who could forget lightning sound effect, very different from that used in Hollywood films.

[Rody]

So many wonderful sound effects................................. But just HOW did Toho do them?
Is there any source out there that could answer this??

[ScootaVaran]

Toho sound effects are like Star Wars or Star Trek sound effects. You can just hear them anywhere and know what they belong too.

that said I think the old Showa rocket launchers stood out the most for me.

[Cimmerian Dragon]

You have to love those weird gun effects that sounded like chook! and chew!. They remind me more of a Buck Rogers blaster than an earth-bound handgun.