War of the Worlds (1953)
How many cool sounds originated from or were made popular by this movie? You have the various weapon charging and firing sounds plus the sounds made my the war machines. These sounds have been used in dozens of other places such as Star Trek's photon torpedo using one of the laser sounds (green beams fired from the wings of the war machines. Of course, if you want to use them in an actual production, they're all on the Hanna Barberra discs from Sound Ideas and the like.
The greatness of these sounds is that they defy reverse engineering, with the exception of the aforementioned laser sounds later repurposed in Star Trek's photon torpedo sound. I would hazard a guess it uses a similar source as the lasers in Star Wars, striking a high tension cable and swathing it in echo.
As mentioned many of the sounds were also used widely in cartoons and other shows and movies but also, somewhat self-defeatingly, in Nick Meyer's The Day After during the nuclear attack. As that movie scared the living shit out of me as a kid, I'm not linking to it but I'm sure you know where you can find it.
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