The clip comes from The Time Machine, the 1960 MGM film directed by George Pal and adapted from H. G. Wells' 1895 novella. Its time travel sequence, showing the inventor watching the world change around him as he moves forward, became one of cinema's most imitated depictions of travelling through time. The rushing, otherworldly audio from that journey has since been reused and referenced online as a shorthand transition sound, letting editors signal a jump to the past or future without showing a machine or explaining the science.
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A rushing travel effect from the 1960 film The Time Machine, as the inventor races forward through the years. Used for flashbacks and jumps to the future.
This is the sound of a time machine surging forward through the years, built from rising electronic tones, rushing wind and a pulsing mechanical whir. The effect starts low and urgent, then swells as if dates are flashing past faster and faster, before easing as the machine settles in a new era. It does not need dialogue to explain what is happening. Listeners instantly read it as departure, acceleration and arrival all in one sweep, which makes a simple cut feel like a huge leap across history, memory or imagination in a video.
