This sound effect can be found on the Hanna-Barbera Sound Effects Library, which was made by Sound Ideas. Originally an RKO Radio Pictures sound effect.
Info[]
- First recorded: 1936
- Creator: TBA
- Owner: RKO Radio Pictures (1936-1941), The Walt Disney Company (1941-1986), Hanna-Barbera (1959-2001), Sound Ideas (1993-present)
- Origin: United States
- Year debut: November 20, 1936
- First heard: Winterset (an RKO Radio Pictures film)
- Area used: Worldwide
The sound effect originates from RKO Radio Pictures's sound library and debuted in the crime film, Winterset on November 20, 1936. It was soon picked up (and heavily used) by Walt Disney Productions starting around 1941, before Hanna-Barbera also began using it in 1959.
A variant also exists that replaces the very start of the effect with Sound Ideas, GUN, HAND GUN - SINGLE PISTOL SHOT 01, also on the Hanna-Barbera library. This was generally used in Filmation and Ruby-Spears Enterprises's output.
Variations[]
- Disney Castle Thunder
- DISNEY SLOW THUNDER CLAP AND RUMBLE
- Freesound, G26-27-Huge Storm Sequence.wav (included)
- Freesound, S23-19 Thunder claps; variation edit of Universal’s “Castle Thunder”.wav
- Gateway Records, Rainstorm And Howling Ghosts (included)
- Pro Sound Effects, Thunder, Moderate Cracks, Long Rolling Rumbles to Distance, Classic
- SoundDogs, Rain Thunder - Thunder And Lightning. Good Old Classic Horror Film Sound
- SoundDogs, Rain Thunders, Thunders - Thunder Rumbles, Various.
- Sound Ideas, THUNDER - BIG THUNDER CLAP AND RUMBLE, WEATHER 03
- Sound Ideas, THUNDER - BIG THUNDER CLAP AND RUMBLE, WEATHER 04
- Sound Ideas, THUNDER - THUNDER CLAP AND RUMBLE, WEATHER 02 (H-B)
- Sound Ideas, THUNDER - THUNDERSTORM: LARGE CLAPS AND RUMBLES, WEATHER
- Sound Ideas, Weather - Rolling thunder 02
- Sound Ideas, Weather - Thunderclap . . . 1 time 01
- Sound Ideas, Weather - Thunderclap . . . 1 time 02
- Sound Ideas, Weather - Thunderclap . . . 2 times
Used In[]
TV Shows[]
- ALF: The Animated Series
- Alias the Jester
- The All-New Popeye Hour
- The Andy Griffith Show
- Archie's Funhouse
- Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy (Heard once in "Pop's Nature Pup".)
- Beany and Cecil
- Bobby's World
- The Brady Kids
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Camp Lazlo (Heard once in "Club Kidney-Ki".)
- Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
- Darkwing Duck (Heard in "Beauty and the Beet", "Trading Faces" and "Twitching Channels".)
- Denver the Last Dinosaur
- Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
- Dragon Tales (Heard once in "Putting the Fun in Fun Houses".)
- The Dreamstone (Used as an explosion.)
- DuckTales
- The Fairly OddParents (Heard once in "Girly Squirrely" and "Birthday Battle".)
- The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo (Heard once in "Noah's Ark".)
- Fangface
- The Flintstones
- The Flintstone Comedy Show
- The Flintstone Kids
- The Further Adventures of SuperTed
- Garfield and Friends
- The Get-Along Gang
- Ghostbusters (1986 TV Series)
- Gilligan's Island
- The Glo Friends
- Glove and Boots
- Goober and the Ghost Chasers (Heard once in "Assignment: The Arab Apparation".)
- The Groovie Goolies Show
- H.R. Pufnstuf (Typically used in reverse for Dr. Blinky's house sneezing.)
- Harvey Beaks
- Heathcliff (1980 TV Series)
- Heathcliff (1984 TV Series) (Heard once in "Claws".)
- Higglytown Heroes (Heard once in "Kip Joins the Circus".)
- Inspector Gadget (1st season only)
- Kissyfur
- Little Wizards
- The Littles (Heard once in "A Little Rock and Roll".)
- The Magic School Bus
- M.A.S.K.
- Mission: Magic!
- The Monkees (Heard once in "Monkee See, Monkee Die".)
- MoonDreamers
- The New Archies
- The New Scooby-Doo Movies (Heard in "Guess Who's Knott Coming to Dinner".)
- The New Shmoo
- The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
- Oggy and the Cockroaches
- Pink Panther and Pals (Heard once in "A Pink and Stormy Night".)
- Pink Panther and Sons
- Pinky and the Brain (Only heard in the Nickelodeon intro.)
- Pinky Dinky Doo (Heard quadrice in "Pinky Dinky Doo and the Cloud People".)
- Police Academy: The Animated Series
- Pound Puppies (1986)
- A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (Heard once in "Curse of the Collar".)
- Rainbow Brite
- Rub a Dub Dub (Heard once in "It's Raining, It's Pouring".)
- Sabrina the Teenage Witch
- Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? (Heard in "Too Many Dummies!".)
- Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
- The Scooby-Doo Show
- Shalom Sesame (Heard once in "Mitzvah on the Street".)
- The Smurfs
- Sylvanian Families
- That Girl
- Three's Company (Heard once in "And Mother Makes Four".)
- ThunderCats
- The Tom & Jerry Kids Show (Heard once in "The Break 'n' Entry Boyz".)
- T.U.F.F. Puppy (Heard once in "The Curse of King Mutt" and "Dog Save The Queen".)
- Turbo Teen
- The Twilight Zone (1959 TV Series) (Heard once in "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet".)
- Underdog (Heard in "A New Villain".)
- Valley of the Dinosaurs
- Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
- What's New, Scooby-Doo? (Heard once in the beginning of "The Vampire Strikes Back".)
- Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down
- The Wuzzles
- Zombie Hotel (Heard once sped-up in "Dead Trendy".)
TV Specials[]
- The Ballad of Big Al (2000)
- The Christmas Tree Train (1983)
- Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies (1972)
- Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962)
- Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1975)
Movies[]
- 101 Dalmatians (1961) (Played three times. First time was heard right at the very start at the storm sequence. The second time, right after when Pongo briefly has "One wild and stormy night in October.". The third time, when Pongo watches Roger Radcliffe rubbing a seemingly-dead puppy.)
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
- The Aristocats (1970) (Heard numerous times through the storm sequence. After Duchess and the kittens found themselves lost from their home, when Madame Adelaide Bonfamille runs out of her room looking duchess and the kittens, and one more time when Roquefort starts looking for Duchess and her kittens out in the rain. The slowed-down edits were heard a couple times during the sequence.)
- Babes in Toyland (1961)
- Back to the Future Part II (1989)
- Bambi (1942)
- Beauty and the Beast (1991)
- Blacula (1972)
- Born Free (1966)
- The Brave Little Toaster (1987) (Heard once after Toaster's nightmare ends, before Blanky gets blown away.)
- Candleshoe (1977)
- The Chipmunk Adventure (1987)
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- Cleopatra (1963)
- Columbo - Murder, Smoke and Shadows (1989)
- Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) (Heard during the climax.)
- Dinosaurus! (1960)
- Dumbo (1941)
- Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
- First Blood (1982)
- The Finest Hours (2016)
- Flash Gordon (1980)
- The Flight That Disappeared (1961)
- The Fox and the Hound (1981) (Slowed-down edits were heard in the scene when Tod attempts to find a new home in the woods. The regular speed is heard after when Amos Slade tells Copper "We'll get him." twice.)
- Fun and Fancy Free (1947)
- Gay Purr-ee (1962)
- Ghostbusters (1984)
- The Great Locomotive Chase (1956)
- The Great Mouse Detective (1986) (Played multiple times thorughout the film. Best known when Basil of Baker Street is first seen, dressed in a Chinese mouse disguise, and during the final battle, when Ratigan bursts out of the Big Ben while going after Basil and Olivia Flaversham, and one last time, right after when Ratigan yells "I'VE WON!" Slowed-down edits were heard a few times.)
- Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown (2011)
- Halloween (1978)
- Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
- Herbie Goes Bananas (1980) (Heard during the stormy jungle sequence when Prindle, Quinn, and Shepard find the gold, and as Herbie drives through the jungle looking for Paco.)
- History of the World, Part I (1981)
- Journey Back to Oz (1972)
- The Jungle Book (1967) (Heard during the final fight.)
- Lady and the Tramp (1955)
- The Last Unicorn (1982)
- Make Mine Music (1946) (Heard in the "Casey and the Bat" and "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met" segments, during a storm scene.)
- Mannequin (1987)
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) (Heard very briefly once in the "Blustery Day" segment.)
- Mary Poppins (1964) (Heard once, right after the song "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".)
- Melody Time (1948)
- Message from Space (1978)
- Mickey's House of Villains (2002)
- Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)
- Murder by Death (1976)
- The NeverEnding Story (1984)
- Oliver Twist (1974)
- Oliver and Company (1988)
- Pete's Dragon (1977)
- Prophecy (1979)
- The Prisoner (1968)
- Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer (1985)
- The Reluctant Dragon (1941)
- The Rescuers (1977)
- The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987)
- Savage Sam (1963) (Played few times throughout the storm scene.)
- Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire (2003) (DVD version only)
- Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico (2003)
- Shinbone Alley (1970)
- Sleeping Beauty (1959)
- So Dear to My Heart (1948) (Before and during the storm sequence, slowed-down edits were heard couple times and a regular speed was heard once.)
- The Sound of Music (1965) (Heard during the the song "Sixteen Going on Seventeen".)
- Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
- The Sword in the Stone (1963)
- The Thief and the Cobbler (workprint and Recobbled Cut only)
- The Three Caballeros (1944) (Heard once during the theme song)
- Trading Places (1983) (Heard once)
- The Twilight Zone: The Howling Man (1960)
- Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
- Where the Red Fern Grows (1974)
- Winterset (1936) (debut)
- Wizards (1977)
- Young Frankenstein (1974)
- Zero Hour! (1957)
Shorts[]
- Banjo the Woodpile Cat (1979)
- Ben and Me (1953) (Heard in both storms of the short film.)
- Chicken Little (1943)
- Dead Right (1993) (Used incorrectly for a gunshot.)
- Disney Cartoons
- Frankenweenie (1984) (Short)
- Hanna-Barbera Presents: Mr. B in Happy Birthday To You! (2005)
- The Little House (1952)
- Mike's Super Short Show (Heard once in "The Haunted Mansion.")
- Noah's Ark (1959)
- Vincent (1982)
- Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968) (Heard very briefly once)
Commercials[]
- Got Milk Commercial: Return of the Milkman (1998)
- Hostess Cupcakes Commercial: Vampire (2001)
- Wonka Shock Tarts
Promos[]
- Cartoon Network: Coming Up Next (Halloween Graveyard)
- Cartoon Network: Scooby Universe Promo (2002)
Video Games[]
PC:
- Disney's Winnie-the-Pooh Activity Center (2000)
- Felix the Cat's Cartoon Toolbox
- Minecraft
- The Neverhood
- The (New) Way Things Work
- Reader Rabbit: 2nd Grade
- The Simpsons Cartoon Studio
Videos/DVDs[]
- [[Winnie the Pooh: Sing a Song with Pooh Bear (1999)
Web Originals[]
YouTube Videos[]
- Beanie Babies 3 (2015)
- The Best Pals Hand Movie (2018)
- The Best Pals Hand Show
- The Best Pals Hand Time Christmas Special (2013) (Heard once during the song, "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year".)
- Best Pals Hand Toons
- Golden Book Video Killers
- Infinity Productions (Heard once in a screamer in a now-deleted "Baikinman Turns Into a Bubble!" along with the Tarzan Yell when an angry wolf picture shows up.)
- Tonia LaJaunie Videos (Heard in "Dr. Seuss' Crash Bandicoot™ The Movie: The Thievius Raccoonus".)
- Webkinz 3: Furrier Moment (2019)
- The Webkinz Christmas Carol (2016)
- Webkinz
- WhitneyGoLucky
Theme Parks[]
- Cinderella Castle Mystery Tour (Tokyo Disneyland)
- Pirates of the Caribbean (Disneyland)
- The Universe of Energy (Epcot)
Trailers[]
- 101 Dalmatians (1961) (Trailers)
- The Aristocats (1970) (Trailers)
- The Black Cauldron (1985) (Trailers)
- The Fox and the Hound (1981) (Trailers)
- The Great Mouse Detective (1986) (Trailers)
Other Media[]
- Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House (1964) (Other Media)
- Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House (1979) (Other Media)
- Disney Discovery Series
Anime[]
Image Gallery[]
Audio Samples[]
(Filmation/Ruby-Spears variant)