A broom has two voices — the dry bristle sweep across hard floor and the heavier scuff when it pushes a pile across the room. Most foley libraries record only one and call it done, which is why so many cartoon-cleanup scenes feel a beat off. These 21 broom recordings keep both halves: straight bristle strokes on tile and hardwood at slow and fast pace, the duller corn-broom drag across concrete, the dry scuff of debris being pushed, and a witch-broom swoosh take for the obvious Halloween work and animation gags that need it.
Animation and ad work reaches for the rhythmic stroke material because it cuts to picture as cleanly as footsteps do — same predictable beat. Halloween edits and stylised fantasy scenes pull the swoosh takes for flight cues and broom-related sight gags. Domestic-realism work in film and TV uses the slower concrete drag under dialogue, where the labour of cleaning has to read without dominating the room. Free to grab for animation, ads and Halloween edits, no attribution required.