How did the Japanese film makers make the godzilla sound?
Sounds like an electronic gadget to me, but the sound was pretty much the sound the Big G bellowed back in the '60s when they didn’t have the electronics we’ve got now.
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Akira Ifukube, composer of the Toho Studios Godzilla films, says in this interview he “took out the lowest string of a contrabass and then ran a glove that had resin on it across the string. The different kinds of roars were created by playing the recording of the sound that I’d made at different speeds.”
The interview is cached by Google; the webpage apparently doesn’t exist anymore.