Talk:Castle thunder (sound effect)

Copyright status
Is the "castle thunder" sound copyrighted? Image:Castle_thunder.ogg says it is, but I presume the copyright tag could be there on a "better safe than sorry" basis... - furrykef (Talk at me) 19:04, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Huh?
After reading this article I'm still not clear why it exists. If the author is trying to say that whenever a thunderclap was heard in a movie up until the late eighties, usually it was a replay of the same peal of thunder heard in the 1931 Frankenstein movie, then that's not clear; if that's true then such a basic statement - the emphasis of the article apparently, if I'm following correctly - needs to be overtly stated. Instead we get a lot of distracting trivia in which a bunch of forgettable movies and t.v. shows in which "castle thunder" has ever been used are listed. What's important isn't that "castle thunder" was used in a particular movie (who really cares about that? Nobody buys a movie ticket to hear the thunder in the movie); it's that this same sound effect has been in (state quantity here - "dozens of"? "Hundreds of"?) movies over x years, and it was ultimately replaced by x technology.

Also more interesting would be a specification of who originally recorded the sound effect, how it was created, how and where it was preserved so that it could be re-used for so many decades, and how much money the original creator of the effect made off of it, if anything, or what kind of lifestyle this work allowed him to live, and - as noted by a previous reader - what the copyright status of the effect is. BLZebubba (talk) 05:06, 22 December 2013 (UTC)