The sound is catalogued in the Hollywood Edge library as a heavy bonk built from a bass drum and cymbal gong, and this version is associated with the Donald Duck cartoon Timber, released on 10 January 1941. Timber was a wartime era Disney short built around physical lumberjack gags, where exaggerated impacts carried much of the comedy. Library effects like this were reused across cartoons for decades, which is why the clang and thud still feels instantly familiar and remains a go to choice for retro cartoon falls and heavy object drops online.