1969 C. E. J. Smith Studio Workshop Bk. 3 21 Use three sound effects operators: SFX1 for footsteps... SFX2 for telephone. SFX3 with others for station noises.

1980 Entertainm. Law Reporter 15 Sept. 1/2 The skit was entitled ‘SFX: Egg Cracking’, and featured Tony Orlando as an egg white.

1983 Marketing & Media Decisions (Nexis) 22 Mar. 67 Girl: In this commercial Burger King promises not to say anything to make you hungry. (SFX: SIZZLE).

1991 Audio-Visual Communications (Nexis) Feb. 33 Universe of Sounds..is an SFX and musical instrument collection in Digidesign file format.

1996 Playback 22 Apr. 10/5 Rick Shurman at Lonesome Pine Studios at Pirate Radio did the music design and SFX.

1999 R. Hemming Three Valentines in Best of Frasier 287 SFX: Phone ringing.

1981 SF-lovers Digest (Electronic text) 26 June It was the general conclusion of the solstice party that his best was Jason and the Argonauts or possibly The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (better plot, sfx not as spectacular).

1985 Today's Computers May 90/1 In the vast realms of the science fiction film, a great deal, if not most, of the film maker's emphasis is on special effects, or SFX.

1990 Creative Rev. Mar. Index 72/1 Cyborg (Electronics, Animatronics, Prosthetics, Models, and SFX).

1995 Fusion Sept. 91/1 Electronic gaming has this subgenre called ‘interactive cinema’, in which development groups buy filmmaking equipment and try to create a movie-like game with actors, sets, sfx and branching story lines.

1999 Independent 21 May ii. 2/7 A ‘movie’..has..a simple and obvious plot, predictable dialogue, lots of action and big SFX.