13 of the titles also have American Sound Effects engineer Theodore Soderberg (1923-2012), who is believed to be one of the guys who owned the sound. NOTE: The reason 20th Century Fox is believed to be the original owner of the sound effect is due to the fact that 19 out of 36 titles the sound effect is used in are 20th Century Fox productions. He even has it as the default notification sound on his Android mobile phone. He loves it so much that he not only adopted the sound for his own sound effects library, but he even utilized it in his own movies (including Return of the Black Thrasher: The Movie). He has a copy of the PC Port of "Driver: You Are The Wheelman", which apparently 'drives' his love affair for the sound. It's not known whether or not the sound is copyrighted, but what is known about it is that there's one individual known as Doctor Danno, the Creator of the YouTube channel 77Pacer, who knows more about the sound than anyone else.
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It would not be until 1972 when Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (1972-1985) started airing on ABC TV on Septemto theaters when another movie production company (ABC TV in this case) gained access to it. The latest known usage for it was in the 1988 MGM film "Killer Clowns from Outer Space", though it's not fully confirmed that this was when it was last utilized.
Most of the known early titles it showed up in are 20th Century Fox films, indicating that 20th Century Fox was the main production company that utilized it within the early years of its existence. The earliest known films that it's heard in (The French Connection and Vanishing Point) were released in 1971. It's sometimes called the "wilhelm scream for cars" by some who know anything about it, but anyone who has played Driver: You Are The Wheelman on either PS1 or PC will know it as the crashing sound used in game. This is a rare car crash sound effect that is believed to be in the 20th Century Fox Sound Effects library.