The Wilhelm Scream

A Wilhelm voice is that of James Black, humming "The Wilhelm Scream", his beautiful beautiful song…

- There is no screaming though in the song !

- Oh, but there is my love…..

Black's internal Whilhelm scream is so deep it gave a rainy smell to my winter morning. Have a cup of rich black chai & dissolve your emotions hearing this:

Query #1  -  When is a scream, wilhelm?

It all started (or actually, continued…) when a soldier named Private Wilhelm in The Charge at Feather River film screamed when struck by an arrow.

When it  r e a l l y  started was 2 years earlier in the 1951 movie Distant Drums when an unnamed soldier was attacked and dragged underwater by an alligator in the Everglades offering a startled scream !

Both men would have been forgotten for their bit parts in B-movies if it wasn't for Warner Bros, who archived the recording after Distant Drums, into the studio's sound effects library, and was re-used and re-used and re-used in a-whole-lotta Warner Bros. productions! Get a taste, it's super cute:

Query #2  -  When is a scream, not wilhelm?

s c r e a m 

So cathartic, yes it is... As much a part of our living day as is smiling and dancing! Try combining those 3 and you get a forever-light chest feeling after!

What is it? 

s c r e a m 

s h o u t 

s h r i e k 

h o o t 

h o l l e r 

v o c i f e r a t i o n 

y e l l 

o u t c r y 

b e l l o w  

as in, 

a loud vocalization in which air is passed through the vocal folds with greater force than is used in regular vocalization. 

You may scream deliberately or as a reaction! The core motive, in essentially all situations, is indeed....

c o m m u n i c a t i o n 

!

You want & you need to communicate your 

f e a r

s u r p r i s e

h a p p i n e s s

d i s p l e a s u r e

o u t r a g e

p a i n

 and yes, even b o r e d o m

indeed...

Communication is magic, and so is the amazing effect a scream can have. 

Superbly rich, one can produce so many different screams, that words are even dispensable.

Query #3  -  When is a scream, a poem ?

When Robert Lowell writes "The Scream", 

a poem so internally but also so externally loud...