SKYWALKER, WIND - HEAVY WIND WHISTLING

This is a Skywalker Sound sound effect that debuted in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), recorded by probably either Ben Burtt and/or Randy Thom. Ben Burtt nicknamed this sound "car coast winds".

According to Ben Burtt in a recent interview , “I was up above Pasadena at Wilson Observatory, and as I’m coming down the long 19-mile road, I found that if you just crack the window open on the driver’s side of the car and then turn the engine off and just coast, you get a whistling of wind through the window... We rented an old-school Mole Richardson wind machine, favored by radio programs in the 1940s, and recorded a window screen angled into a strong wind at Point Reyes in the headlands to round out the collection….I probably made a dozen or so, maybe more, versions of Hoth winds. They went from light to heavy. We would find the right texture for each scene. They were done in stereo and they had a nice environmental feel to them. Those winds are still used today.”

Used In

Movies

• The Croods (2013)
• De Lift (1983)
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
• Osmosis Jones (2001) (Heard as Osmosis jumps toward Shane's tear)
• Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) (Heard during the 1492 Pictures logo)
• Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) (debut)
• Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
• Titanic (1997)

Video Games

PC:

• Star Wars: Battlefront (EA)

PlayStation 4:

• Star Wars: Battlefront (EA)

Xbox One:

• Star Wars: Battlefront (EA)

Anime

• Jewelpet Happiness
• My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
• Project A-ko 4: FINAL (1989)

Image Gallery

De Lift (1983) SKYWALKER, WIND - HEAVY WIND WHISTLING

Titanic (1997) SKYWALKER, WIND - HEAVY WIND WHISTLING

Audio Samples

External Links

• Empire at 40: Sound Designer Ben Burtt Interview