This brief effect comes from Donald Gets Drafted, the Donald Duck cartoon released on 1 May 1942, where exaggerated cartoon noises helped sell Donald's comic misadventures. The clip was later catalogued in the Hollywood Edge sound library under a longer descriptive title covering its whistle, whirl, jew's harp boing and snap, which helped it survive long after the short itself. Editors still reach for it today because it condenses a whole slapstick gag into under a second, making it easy to drop into memes, animations and short videos that need an instant, old-school cartoon punch.