The original Alien film’s tagline was, “in space, no one can hear you scream.” Well, DPA Microphones wanted to ensure moviegoers do, in fact, hear the actors in the film’s second prequel, Alien: ...

If you’ve watched any franchise cinema from the past 70 years, chances are you’ve heard the Wilhelm Scream. Recorded for the Warner Bros. sound archives in the early 1950s, the exaggerated yowl can be ...

Nowadays, when people want to add a sound effect to a movie, they mostly just pull up a digital archive, choose a sound, and drag and drop. But in the pre-digital age, people created sounds using ...