Take a good look at this design, because this is the only place you'll see it. I based it on a 1954 Alfred Hitchcock movie called, "Dial 'M' for Murder." And I spent a great deal of time in Photoshop cleaning up Artie's interpretation including putting the cell phone numbers in the right order and amputating a sixth finger from the villain holding the cell phone. Finally I uploaded it to teepublic.com and they flagged it for review. You would think no one would care about a 1954 movie. I am pretty sure all of the people who starred in it are dead and a good portion of the people who saw the film are probably dead as well. But teepublic.com promised one of those quick reviews that they would get back to me on along with the four other designs they flagged months ago for review.
Why I oughta....scream perhaps? Or should I say, "Wilhelm Scream."
Up until today I had no clue that a Wilhelm Scream was a thing. But apparently it is a famous stock sound effect that has been used in more than 400 films and television series. It has become an inside joke for sound designers and film enthusiasts (it may even have been used in "Dial M for Murder" for all I know).
The scream was first recorded in 1951 in a film called "Distant Drums" when a soldier was bitten by an alligator. The name "Wilhelm Scream" came from a 1953 film "the Charge at Feather River" when a character name Private Wilhelm screams after being shot with an arrow. The rest is history. The scream has been used in the Start Wars and Indiana Jones movie series.
Now the Wilhelm Scream has been used in Dizgraceland Records. And it makes a pretty screaming good t-shirt design if I do say so myself. It makes up for the "Text 'M' for Murder" debacle. I will have to say that I think the teepublic.com legal team is a few rocks shy of a quarry.
The stoners will love this one.
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