Sound Effects in classic Sci-Fi movies

[opg]

I stumbled across this site that reveals what was used in the big sci-fi films:

http://filmsound.org/articles/horrorsound/horrorsound.htm

They say, "When you see the sliding doors opening and closing, what you hear is a bunch of different sounds including an air gun reversed and somebody's sneakers squeaking on the floor to give it the rubber-seal effect (Kenny, ''Star Trek Generations'' 76)."

I was also interested to find that "The light sabers in Star Wars are the sounds of a TV picture tube and an old 35mm projector (Spotnitz 44)," though I'm not sure what they did with these two gadgets.

I started thinking about all this when I was engrossed in The X-Files mania of the 1990s, and a news clip explained that the man with the switchblade/shiv was made by a person actually going "Ffffffffft!" after nothing else sounded good enough.

[Alexander]

All the monsters' sounds in The Lord of The Rings were created from sampling three animals and pitch shifting, etcetera.



I would love to be a foley artist, it's a great way of working with sound.