"Who wrote the score to ""Star Wars"", ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"", and ""Jurassic Park""?"
Raiders of the Lost Ark car rolling down a gravel driveway in neutral. Burtt also used, as he did in many of his films, the ubiquitous Wilhelm scream when a Nazi falls from a truck. In addition to his use of such time-honored foley work, Burtt also demonstrated the modern expertise honed during his award-winning work on "Star Wars". He employed a synthesizer for the sounds of the Ark, and mixed dolphins' and sea lions' screams for those of the spirits within. Michael Pangrazio created the final shot's matte painting on glass over three months. John Williams composed the score for "Raiders of the Lost
Raiders of the Lost Ark Ark", which was the only score in the series performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, the same orchestra that performed the scores for the "Star Wars" saga. The score most notably features the well-known "Raiders March". This piece came to symbolize Indiana Jones and was later used in the scores for the other three films. Williams originally wrote two different candidates for Jones's theme, but Spielberg enjoyed them so much that he insisted that both be used together in what became the "Raiders March". The alternately eerie and apocalyptic theme for the Ark of the Covenant is also heard frequently