ANOTHER Dr No soundtrack question --- SOLVED!
Rinberg
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Hi guys,
I'm on a probably impossible quest to track down a particular sound effect from Dr No!
It occurs just after 1hr 35m - Bond has just escaped from his cell and is edging down the corrugated metal pipe. There's a fantastic swirling, whooshing air effect that runs throughout this sequence and it's the one I'm after.
Does anyone out there have the faintest idea where this effect comes from? Is it a Norman Wanstall original creation? (Well done Norman, if so!) Is it a pre-existing track, possibly from a sound effects library? If it is from a library does anyone have any idea which one? Has anyone spotted the track anywhere else?
There are a couple of computer sound effects in Dr No that appear to have come from the BBC library. There's another that pops up later in The Prisoner and also one that's used in the Amicus Dr Who and the Daleks. Perhaps the track was a Wanstall original that was added to a library subsequently. Perhaps it was already a library piece and Mr W plucked it off the shelf fully formed.
Any concrete information, vague theories or mad ideas would be appreciated!
Thanks
I'm on a probably impossible quest to track down a particular sound effect from Dr No!
It occurs just after 1hr 35m - Bond has just escaped from his cell and is edging down the corrugated metal pipe. There's a fantastic swirling, whooshing air effect that runs throughout this sequence and it's the one I'm after.
Does anyone out there have the faintest idea where this effect comes from? Is it a Norman Wanstall original creation? (Well done Norman, if so!) Is it a pre-existing track, possibly from a sound effects library? If it is from a library does anyone have any idea which one? Has anyone spotted the track anywhere else?
There are a couple of computer sound effects in Dr No that appear to have come from the BBC library. There's another that pops up later in The Prisoner and also one that's used in the Amicus Dr Who and the Daleks. Perhaps the track was a Wanstall original that was added to a library subsequently. Perhaps it was already a library piece and Mr W plucked it off the shelf fully formed.
Any concrete information, vague theories or mad ideas would be appreciated!
Thanks
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I may have that totally wrong and can't check at present as my DVD player is broken. However, once I replace it with a Blu-Ray player I'll check again. I don't know when that will be but will keep it in mind for sure. Also, if someone on here has the same special features DVD I'm talking about (it was one of 21 in the black and silver box set with the 007 logo on it) then they may be able to help. -{
This may also be of some help. Fast forward to about 34:30 and watch for the next 4-5 minutes. Actually, the whole documentary is worth a look.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nJ68vJ-0k
So, Wanstall found it while "searching in the libraries". This presumably means a sound effects library and that's where I hit another brick wall. I'm pretty familiar with production music libraries - e.g. KPM who provided the original theme to Grange Hill in the UK, or Chappell, who provided much of the incidental music for The Prisoner - but when it comes to sound effects libraries I know absolutely nothing. The BBC had their own internal one (here's an original disc on eBay) but that's about all I know.
Did Pinewood have their own internal sound FX library? Or if they used an established external one does anyone know which one? (I'd be impressed if anyone did - I can't even name any!)
Thanks for your time!
How did you discover my secret Plan B?!
Actually, I've just nabbed the 2-disc DVD set of Amazon which allegedly contains a 5.1 mix. If I can't track the full track down it should come in handy...
The wonderful whooshing air sound effect from Dr No turned up in Dr Who (they *soooo* stole the name!) four years later:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/3ud152co1g1moox/Swirly+1.mp3
- it kicks in at about 7-and-a-half seconds, It's quiet! (There's a "respiration" effect too - ignore that, that's definitely Radiophonic Workshop.)
Here's another section of it that's particularly dramatic (ignore the other track fading out in the opening seconds):
https://www.mediafire.com/?85ql7y7b0h1i943
- that's pure electronic music, that is. It's b brilliant, and I want a copy of it!
This may have been replicated in many films (not just Bond) but listen to the single gunshot at about 45 seconds. Sounds very similar to one used in one of Connery's early Bond films.
May have to watch them all again to clarify - oh well, can think of worse things to do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV8YbLvGrb0
Well, six years later I've finally found it! Turns out to be a BBC creation, likely produced for the Journey into Space radio series. And you can hear it in full here:
Thanks again for all the original helpful comments, chaps! :)
This is just the sort of stuff that I really love about this website and this community. Thanks for sharing!
I quite agree!
Congrats on the conclusion of your quest Rinberg👏
Thanks guys. You probably can't imagine how excited I was when it turned up! 😀
As this is a Dr No thread, I thought some of you might like to hear this too - it's another ancient BBC effects disc (50s / 60s) which, once again, I bought because it contained a Dr Who effect. But it turns out there are a couple of Dr No effects in there too:
Thanks to Sgt Yard at Gallifrey Base for that info. Hope it's of some interest!
Another contender for "Most ridiculously niche YouTube video ever", here are some more BBC sound effects - the bleeps and whirrs of an extremely early computer. Dr No fans might recognise tracks 2, 7 and 11!
Thanks again to Sgt Yard.
And thank you!